Michèle Wolf

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Michèle Wolf (born August 29, 1954 in Strasbourg ) is a former French soccer player .

Club career

Michèle Wolf played in a boys' team at the amateur club SC Notre-Dame in her hometown of Strasbourg when she was eight . Even after women's football was legalized in France in 1970, she initially remained loyal to this club and also became a national player in 1972. During this time she worked as a saleswoman in a grocery store. A few months after the official introduction of a competition for the national championship , the striker moved to Stade Reims , with whose wives she won three championships in 1975 , 1976 and 1977 . It followed two years at SC Caluire Saint-Clair before she wore the FC Lyon dress from 1979 . Michèle Wolf, who was increasingly used in midfield later in her career , returned to her native Alsace in 1984 . With the " post athletes " of the ASPTT Strasbourg she reached another championship semifinals in 1986, in which her team was eliminated by the ASJ Soyaux . In 1989, shortly before her 35th birthday, she ended her long sporting career.

In the national team

When, at the turn of the year 1970/1971, Pierre Geoffroy , who was appointed France's first women's national coach shortly afterwards, put together a group of female footballers from whom he wanted to form a national team , he already had Michèle Wolf on his list. The then 17-year-old could neither play in the world's first official women's international match against the Netherlands in April 1971 nor travel to the (unofficial) women's world championship in Mexico in August because she didn't get any special vacation from her school, and she also had to go in November of the year against Italy . So she made her debut with the Bleues in September 1972 on the occasion of a 2-5 defeat in Switzerland .

By the end of her international career (3-1 win in Belgium in March 1986), Wolf had a total of 35 full internationals in which she scored eight goals. She was the first French woman to hit the 30 cap mark ; She led her teammates onto the field as captain in eight matches , including five games in 1982 and 1983 in qualifying for the first ever Women's European Championship .

Palmarès

  • French champion: 1975, 1976, 1977
  • 35 international appearances (8 goals) for France

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ Xavier Breuil: Histoire du football féminin en Europe. Nouveau Monde, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-84736-622-8 , p. 185
  2. ↑ see the season overview 1985/86 at rsssf.com
  3. ↑ to “Women from the very beginning” on the FIFA website , accessed on January 31, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Michèle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION french soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg