Mélissa Plaza

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Mélissa Plaza (2013)

Mélissa Plaza (born July 28, 1988 in Saint-Gaudens ) is a former French football player .

In their clubs

Born on the northern edge of the Pyrenees , Mélissa Plaza grew up in Haute-Savoie , among other places , where she began playing club football. Due to a “difficult family situation”, she left her parents' home at the age of 13 and lived with a sponsored family in the Pays de la Loire . When she tried a little later at the national football youth development center in Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines for admission, she was rejected. In 2002/03 she played for Tours FC and then moved to the first division club ESOF La Roche , where she made her debut in the women's team a few months after her 15th birthday. La Roche's colors represented the defensive midfielder for six years, during which she played 93 points with eight goals of her own. During this time, she graduated from high school and then began studying in Nantes , and the French Football Association became aware of the player in 2008 (see the section on international career ) .

In 2009 she won one of the top clubs in French women's football with HSC Montpellier , which was also represented in the European Cup as runner-up in the previous season . In this competition Mélissa Plaza brought it to nine appearances and - in the quarter-final second leg against Umeå IK  - one goal. In 2010/11, she suffered the first of several serious knee injuries , which put her out of action for six months and prevented the national coach from considering her for the 2011 World Cup . After her convalescence , she played for Montpellier until 2013, playing a total of 97 competitive games. These included two national cup finals , in which the opponents ( 2010 Paris Saint-Germain and 2012 Olympique Lyon ) had the upper hand.

In 2013 she signed a contract with France's series champion Olympique Lyon, where coach Patrice Lair had provided her as an addition to the defensive line after the end of Sonia Bompastor's career . Despite the strong competition there (especially from Wendie Renard , Saki Kumagai and Corine Petit ), she played in her first season in 14 point and one Champions League game against FC Twente - then she suffered, possibly because of her Double burden of elite sport / studies, another serious injury, this time to the right knee, which cost her a seven-month career break. In both Lyon years she was French champion, but was not in the final eleven in OLs cup victories in 2014 and 2015 .

In 2015, the recovered Mélissa Plaza was brought to En Avant Guingamp by Sarah M'Barek , who had already been her trainer in Montpellier . After twelve league appearances with two goals, she had to undergo further operations on both knees in early 2016 and was without a club at the end of the season. That same year she graduated from the University of Montpellier I the doctorate in social psychology with a thesis on gender - stereotypes in sports.

As of February 2017, she played seven second division games for US Saint-Malo , five of them over the full season. In the same year she became a partner and expert in a consulting firm that wants to advance equality in business and society. In addition, Mélissa Plaza is completing a trainer training , especially since she

"Gladly one day as a minister or trainer of a men's soccer team at a high level"

would work. In addition, she published her autobiography in 2019 (see under literature ).

Stations

  • CS Saint-Pierre-en-Faucigny (1999-2001)
  • US Arnage (2001/02)
  • Tours FC (2002/03)
  • ESOF La Roche (2003-2009)
  • HSC Montpellier (2009-2013)
  • Olympique Lyon (2013-2015)
  • EA Guingamp (2015/16)
  • US Saint-Malo (2016/17)

International career

Mélissa Plaza has never been appointed to France's youth selection team. It was only in 2008 that it was considered among the U-20 / U-21 juniors, for whom she played eight games, six of them at the U-20 World Cup in Chile in 2008 , where she only played for third place against her German contemporaries was not in the starting line-up. In the following year, national coach Bruno Bini used her in two international matches in the senior national team . In her debut against Switzerland , she came on for Camille Abily after a quarter of an hour , and against Croatia in September 2009 she was one of the first eleven French women. After that, due to her series of serious injuries, she only made three B internationals in 2012 and 2014.

However, Mélissa Plaza won the gold medal at the 2015 Summer Universiade in South Korea with the French student selection ; There she was a regular player and, with the exception of the first group game, was always on the pitch at kick-off. She had already been part of the French team at the 2009 Universiade in Serbia , which was fourth; Back then, Plaza had even scored two goals.

Palmarès

  • French champion 2013/14 and 2014/15
  • State cup finalist 2010 and 2012
  • Gold medalist at the 2015 Summer Universiade

literature

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e according to the article Mélissa Plaza, healing through the ball from November 2, 2017 at midetplus.fr
  2. ↑ Match report of the 0-10 defeat in Montpellier on November 22, 2003 at footofeminin.fr
  3. ↑ Plazas CL missions in the 2009/10 season at footofeminin.fr
  4. ^ Announcement about Plaza's move to Lyon on June 20, 2013 on uefa.com
  5. ↑ Match report of their brief assignment on October 9, 2013 in Enschede at footofeminin.fr
  6. ↑ Article “ Soccer player and student, Mélissa Plaza breaks stereotypes ” from November 4, 2015 in Ouest-France
  7. ↑ Plazas data sheet at researchgate.net
  8. ↑ Article “ I'm sorry, my little one, that's nothing for girls! "With video from February 19, 2017 at footofeminin.fr and interview“ Free time and equality wanted ” from December 17, 2015 at sofoot.com
  9. ↑ see the Queo Improve website  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed December 25, 2017)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.queo-improve.com  
  10. ↑ Final report from July 13, 2015 at footofeminin.fr
  11. ↑ see the review “ 14 years had to be waited for ” from July 14, 2015 at footofeminin.fr
personal data
SURNAME Plaza, Mélissa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Gaudens