Shannon Boxx

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Shannon Boxx
Shannon Boxx Warmup.jpg
Boxx before the game against New Zealand on February 11, 2012
Personnel
Surname Shannon Leigh Boxx Spearman
birthday June 29, 1977
place of birth Fontana ,  USA
size 173 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
until 1998 Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
1994 Ajax of Los Angeles
1999 Boston Renegades
1999-2000 1. FC Saarbrücken
2000 Ajax of Los Angeles
2001-2002 San Diego Spirit 41 (5)
2003 New York Power 21 (1)
2005 Ajax of Los Angeles
2009 Los Angeles Sol 19 (3)
2010 Saint Louis Athletica 6 (1)
2010 FC Gold Pride 4 (0)
2011 magicJack 4 (4)
2013-2015 Chicago Red Stars 11 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2003-2015 United States 195 (27)
1 Only league games are given.

Shannon Leigh Boxx (born June 29, 1977 in Fontana ) is a former American football player . She played for the US national team from 2003 to 2015 , with which she won the 2015 World Cup and the Olympic gold medal in 2004, 2008 and 2012.

Career

society

In her youth, Boxx also played softball , volleyball and basketball . Her sister Gillian Boxx won in 1996 with the US softball team at the Olympic Games in Atlanta the gold medal. When she went to college in 1995, she had to choose one sport and chose soccer. While studying psychology , she played for the college team at the University of Notre Dame . With 101 games, 39 goals and 57 assists , she is the team's record player. In the first year she won the national college championship. After completing her studies, she played for Boston Renegades from 1999 and also for a while in Germany for 1. FC Saarbrücken . After only five months she returned to the USA and was now playing for Ajax of Los Angeles . With the creation of the professional league WUSA , she switched to San Diego Spirit . Initially a regular player, she was able to make friends with her purely defensive tasks and switched to New York Power in 2003 , where she played a very good season under coach Tom Sermanni .

Shannon Boxx at the Saint Louis Athletica (2010)

She played for Los Angeles Sol in 2009 and for Saint Louis Athletica and FC Gold Pride in 2010 , with which she won the WPS championship. In 2011 she played for magicJack . In the newly founded National Women's Soccer League , she played for the Chicago Red Stars franchise from 2013 , but also only made eleven appearances in three seasons due to a pregnancy. At the end of July 2015, she announced her immediate termination of contract in Chicago.

National team

The defensive midfielder first took part in a World Cup for women in the United States in 2003 . She was the first player who was called up to a World Cup squad without having previously played international matches. She played her first game shortly before the World Cup, in the preparation game against Costa Rica . In this game she scored her first goal. In her two following games, including the first game at the 2003 World Cup against Sweden, she scored one goal each, setting a record for the US national team . The Americans finished the tournament in third place. Boxx was elected to the All-Star-Team of the World Cup and from then on belonged to the tribe of the US national team. The following year she first took part in the Algarve Cup and was voted the best player of the tournament there. In 2004 she played with a world team against the world championship team from Germany . Then she took part in the Olympic Games in Athens and won the gold medal there. In the 2004 election for world soccer player, she came in seventh place. In the following year she was again one of the nominated players and finished third. She was part of the USA squad for the 2007 World Cup and was used in five games. Since she received the yellow-red card in the semifinals, she could not be used in the small final. In 2008, she won with the US its second gold medal at the Olympic Games in Beijing. She is part of the US squad for the 2011 World Cup in Germany . In two preliminary round games she was in the starting line-up, only in the game against Colombia she was not used. After losing to Sweden in their last group game , they met Brazil in the quarter-finals . There she and her team reached the penalty shoot-out with a last-minute goal in stoppage time by Abby Wambach , in which they converted the first penalty for the US team in the repetition. On her first attempt, which the Brazilian goalkeeper Andréia Suntaque was able to keep, she was too far in front of the goal, which is why she got a second chance. Since their teammates were also successful, but the Brazilian Libera Daiane forgave, the USA moved to the semi-finals against France . After beating France 3-1, she and her team reached the final against Japan. After it was 2-2 after extra time, the penalty shoot-out had to decide again. Here Boxx was the first to take part, her shot was held by the Japanese goalkeeper. As Carli Lloyd and Tobin Heath could not convert either, Japan won the penalty shootout 3-1 and the US team won silver.

Boxx was in the squad for the Olympic football tournament in London , but was replaced in the first game against France after 17 minutes when the score was 2-0 due to an injury. After that, their teammates were able to turn the game to 4: 2. It was only used again in the final against Japan and won her third gold medal.

In the 2013 season she played in the newly founded National Women's Soccer League , the highest American professional league in women's football for the Chicago Red Stars .

After a long break from injury, she was used again at the 2015 Algarve Cup , which the USA won for the 10th time. She was also named to the US squad for the 2015 World Cup . She came in but only one use in the group game against Nigeria when she came on for Megan Rapinoe in the 74th minute . When her team won the final against Japan, she became world champion for the first time.

On October 21, 2015, she made her 195th and last international match as part of the Victory Tour against Brazil and on this occasion led the team onto the field as captain.

Private

Shannon Boxx is married and lives in Redondo Beach . In early 2014 she became the mother of a daughter.

successes

Team successes
personal successes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chicago and US Star Shannon Boxx Retires from NWSL Play , chicagoredstars.com (English). Retrieved July 28, 2015.
  2. ↑ DFB.de: Women's national team is subject to world selection with 2: 3 (Here Malin Moström is named as the captain, in Boxx's profile on the US Association Boxx's website as "team captain".)
  3. ↑ 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup roster. Archived from the original on May 14, 2011 ; accessed on August 26, 2014 (English).
  4. ↑ US Women's National Team Defeats France 4-2 to Open Group G Play at 2012 Olympics ( Memento of the original from August 16, 2012 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.ussoccer.com
  5. ↑ ussoccer.com: NWSL Announces Allocation of 55 National Team Players to Eight Clubs ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2013 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 / www.ussoccer.com
  6. ↑ ussoccer.com: "WNT Battles Back to Draw in First of Two Victory Tour Show Downs vs. Brazil "

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personal data
SURNAME Boxx, Shannon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boxx, Shannon Leigh (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Fontana