Pauline Hamill

Pauline Hamill
Personnel
birthday	18th December 1971
place of birth	United Kingdom
position	Midfield , attack
Juniors
Years	station
	Craigburn Boys Club
	Coltness ladies
Women
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	Cumbernauld ladies
	Stenhousemuir ladies
	Kilmarnock ladies
2001	ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar
2002-2005	Hibernian LFC
2005-2007	Doncaster Rovers Belles
2007-2008	Hibernian LFC
2008	Blackburn Rovers LFC
2008-2009	Celtic Glasgow LFC
2010	Spartans WFC
2011	Celtic Glasgow LFC
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1992-2010	Scotland	141 (29)
1 Only league games are given.

Pauline Hamill (born December 18, 1971 ) is a former Scottish soccer player and current coach. Hamill was the first Scot to play 100 internationals. For the Scottish national football team , she played from 1992 to 2010 and played 141 games. She was a Scottish national record player at times and ended her active career in 2011.

Career

society

Hamill, who grew up in Airdrie , started with the Craigburn Boys U-12s and then played for the Coltness Ladies before playing for the Cumbernauld Ladies at age 13. After 13 years with the Cumbernauld Ladies, with whom she was Scottish champions and cup winners in 1996/97 and 1997/98, she switched to the Stenhousemuir Ladies with whom she also won the Scottish Cup in the 2000 season, with her 9-0 in the final but no goal was achieved. After an engagement with the Kilmarnock Ladies , she switched to the Icelandic club ÍBV Vestmannaeyjar at the age of 29 , but returned to her home country for the 2002 season and played for Hibernian LFC until 2005 , where she was twice cup winner. She then played until 2007 for the Doncaster Rovers Belles in the National Division of the FA Women's Premier League , the highest division in English women's football at the time, and then returned to Hibernian LFC and won the Scottish Cup again. After another trip to England, this time to Blackburn Rovers LFC , she played for Celtic Glasgow LFC from 2008 to 2009 , then one season at Spartans WFC and then ended her career at Celtic Glasgow LFC in 2011 at the age of almost 40 .

National team

Hamill made his debut for the Scottish national football team on April 17, 1992 in a 0-1 win against England in qualifying for the European Championship in 1993 . On August 26, 2007, she made her 100th international match in a 3-2 win against Belgium as the first Scot . Two months later she beat Kenny Dalglish's Scottish record with her 103rd international match . After more than 18 years in the national team, she played her 141st and last international match on August 25, 2010, but remained a record national player until May 26, 2012. Then she was replaced by Gemma Fay . She has now only played the third most international matches for Scotland.

trainer

Already during her active time she worked as a trainer, so in 2003 she became the first female trainer for the Rangers. In June 2013 she acquired her UEFA A license. Hamill is now the trainer of the SFA Women's National Football Academy at the University of Stirling and the Scottish U-17 team, but has also coached the U-15 team and assisted the U-19 team. With the U-17 team, however, she most recently failed in the elite round of qualifying for the U-17 European Championship in 2016 .

successes

• Scottish Champion : 1996/97 and 1997/98 (with Cumbernauld Ladies)
• Scottish Cup Winner : 1998, 1999 (with Cumbernauld Ladies), 2000 (with Stenhousemuir Ladies), 2003, 2005, 2008 (with Hibernian Ladies)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Youth Football Scotland
2. ↑ STEWART TIP FOR JAGS.
3. ↑ heraldscotland.com: "'Magoo' regrets she was unable to save the day"
4. ↑ eveningtimes.co: "WOMEN'S FOOTBALL: Hamill goes Ton up. . . but at what cost? "
5. ↑ heraldscotland.com: "Princess Pauline: the new King Kenny"
6. ↑ thefreelibrary.com: "Football: FIRST LADY OF MURRAY PARK; Rangers sign up female coach Pauline. "

Web links

• Profile on the Scottish FA website