Portia Modise

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Portia Modise
Personnel
birthday June 20, 1983
place of birth Soweto ,  South Africa
size 152 cm
position Midfield / attack
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
1996 - ???? Soweto ladies
2007-2009 Fortuna Hjørring
2009–2012? Palace Super Falcons
2014-2015 Croesus ladies
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2000-2015 South Africa 124 (101)
1 Only league games are given.

Portia Modise (born June 20, 1983 in Soweto ) is a former South African soccer player . She played for the South African national team from 2000 to 2015 , of which she was the record player until 2016. She is also the top scorer in Africa with 101 goals.

Career

societies

Modise first played with boys in her neighborhood when she was eight years old. In 1993 she went to the Soweto Rangers as a striker and then to the Jomo Cosmos' ladies. In 2007 she moved to Europe and played for the Danish first division club Fortuna Hjørring . In her first season in Denmark, she scored two goals. In 2009 and 2010 she won the Danish Championship and in 2008 the Danish Cup . In the 2008/09 season she was in the scorer list with 15 goals together with two other players in 3rd place. In the 2009/10 UEFA Women's Champions League she reached the round of 16 with the Danes. There they met Olympique Lyon . After a 0-1 home game, they lost the second leg 5-0. Since Lyon had signed the two Norwegian players Christine Nielsen and Isabell Herlovsen after the transfer phase , Fortuna lodged a protest, which UEFA accepted and scored the game 3-0 for Fortuna Hjørring. This would have made the Danish women into the quarter-finals. Olympique Lyon appealed against this to the International Sports Court , which was granted. According to FIFA rules , Lyon should not have signed or used the two players. Lyon was however right on the grounds that the FIFA regulations only apply to professionals, but the French league is an amateur league. Lyon were therefore allowed to play in the quarter-finals, whereas the Champions League season was over for Fortuna. Then Modise returned to South Africa.

National team

Modise was the captain of the South African U-19 team "Basetsane Basetsane" when she was nominated in 2000 for the senior national team. She made her first international matches at the African Women's Football Championship in 2000 in her native South Africa, where she was used in all games and reached the final against defending champions Nigeria . The final was canceled when the score was 0: 2 in the 73rd minute of the game, because South African fans had thrown bottles and other objects at a line judge. Since the game could not start again after three attempts, Nigeria was declared the winner by the African association . According to the South African Association, she scored her first international goal in the group game against Zimbabwe , while other goalscorers are named in the tournament's RSSSF statistics.

Two years later she failed with the national team in the semi-finals of the 2002 African Cup of Nations , which meant that qualification for the 2003 World Cup was missed.

In qualifying for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , Modise scored two goals in a 2-2 win against Africa champions Nigeria on March 12, 2004 in Pretoria , but they were not enough to qualify as Nigeria won the second leg 1-0. Together with the Nigerian Perpetua Nkwocha , she was the only African woman nominated for the FIFA World Player of the Year 2005 election, which Birgit Prinz ultimately won.

She also failed with the national team in the semi-finals of the 2006 African Cup of Nations, which meant that the qualification for the 2007 World Cup was missed. In the game for third place she scored a 2-2 draw against Cameroon and the victory on penalties made the South Africans third.

In April 2007 she was nominated for the game of the “FIFA Women's World Stars” against the Chinese national soccer team for the 2007 World Cup on the occasion of the group draw .

In November 2008, after differences with national coach Augustine Makalakalane , she declared that she no longer wanted to play for South Africa after she had not been considered for the 6th African Women's Championship.

In October 2011, South Africa qualified for the 2012 Olympic Games in London for the first time . In April 2012, she agreed to play for South Africa again after Joseph Mkhonza took over as national coach. With 71 goals in 92 international matches so far, she went to London. At the Olympic Games she was used in the three group games. In their first game, the South Africans lost to Sweden 1: 4, with Modise scored the interim 3-1 with a shot from the center circle and even received applause from the Swedish fans. After a 3-0 draw against Canada , they achieved a respectable success with a goalless draw against world champions Japan .

In November 2012 she was nominated for Africa's Player of the Year .

On October 18, 2014, she was the first African woman to score her 100th goal in her 117th international match at the 2014 Women's African Cup of Nations in a 5-1 win against Algeria . The South Africans then lost the semi-final against Nigeria with 1: 2 and then in the game for third place against the Ivory Coast for the first time and thus missed the 2015 World Cup .

On May 19, 2015, Modise announced the end of her career as an active player. In total, she played 124 times for the Banyana Banyana and scored 101 goals. So she remained the South African and African record national player until March 28, 2015 . Then she was replaced by her former teammate Janine van Wyk , who beat the record in the game against Cameroon with her 125th international match.

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JONATHAN MANGENA: "Strike the jackpot tonight with Portia", DAILY SUN February 4, 2002, page 22 ( memento of the original from April 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / 152.111.1.87
  2. ↑ tv2nord.dk: "South Africa's landsholdskaptajn skifter til Fortuna"
  3. ↑ 3F Ligaen (2007) - top scorer list
  4. ↑ 3F Ligaen (2009) - top scorer list
  5. ↑ Olympique Lyonnais vs. Fortuna Hjørring 0-3. In: soccerway.com. Retrieved April 26, 2016 .
  6. ↑ a b Lyon back in the Women's Champions League. In: womensoccer.de. February 25, 2010, accessed April 26, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Happy Mnguni: "Sanlam's Halala Cup kicks off in Cape Town Modise to lead her team" ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / 152.111.1.88
  8. ↑ a b rsssf.com: "Africa - Women's Championship 2000"
  9. ↑ a b safa.net: "Portia: SA's centurion in numbers" ( memento of the original from April 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.safa.net
  10. ↑ rsssf.com: "Africa - Women's Championship 2002 - Details"
  11. ↑ a b Tom Schlimme: "World soccer player 2005 - The nominees from Africa - Perpetua Nkwocha and Portia Modise"
  12. ↑ rsssf.com: "Africa - Women's Championship 2006 - Details"
  13. ↑ Match Report FIFA Women's World Stars - China PR 2: 3 (2: 2)
  14. ↑ sowetanlive.co: "angry modise quits banyana"
  15. ^ Games of the XXX. Olympiad - Football Qualifying Tournament
  16. ↑ John Goliath: "Modise wants to show off skill"
  17. ↑ bbc.com: "South Africa's Portia Modise aims for Olympic shocks"
  18. ↑ uefa.com: "Great Britain convinced, Sweden and France in a duel"
  19. ↑ fifa.com: "Modise: My moment in the limelight"
  20. ↑ fifa.com: "South Africa celebrates respectable success"
  21. ↑ supersport.com: "Modise nominated for top CAF award"
  22. ↑ fifa.com/African Football Media: "Welcome to the 100s club: Modise follows Hamm, Prinz and Co."
  23. ↑ cafonline.com: "'Les Elephantes' qualify for World Cup"
  24. ↑ safa.net: "Banyana Banyana captain breaks SA record" ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.safa.net
personal data
SURNAME Modise, Portia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African female soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Soweto , South Africa