Shannon Lynn

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Shannon Lynn
Shannon Lynn and Claire Lavogez (cropped) .jpg
Lynn at the game between Scotland
and France in May 2015
Personnel
birthday October 22, 1985
place of birth BramptonCanada
size 175 cm
position Goalkeeper
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
2004-2006 IPFW mastodons
2007-2008 Fort Wayne Fever
2009 Indiana FC 21 (0)
2009-2013 Hibernian Edinburgh 43 (0)
2013 Chelsea ladies 3 (0)
2013 Hibernian Edinburgh 10 (0)
2014– Vittsjö GIK 62 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2010– Scotland 30 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2019

2 As of March 4, 2019

Shannon Lynn (born October 22, 1985 in Brampton , Canada ) is a Canadian - Scottish football goalkeeper . The goalkeeper has been under contract with the Swedish club Vittsjö GIK since 2014 and played for the Scottish national team for the first time in 2010 .

Career

societies

Born in Canada to Scottish parents, Lynn moved to the Scottish club Hibernian Edinburgh in 2009 to be the focus of Scottish national coach Anna Signeul . Previously, she had conceded only two goals in the regular season with Indiana FC in the 2009 USL W-League , won the Midwest Division and reached the conference final, where her team beat Ottawa Fury 2-1 due to two own goals by two teammates lost. She was chosen as the best goalkeeper in the "All-League and All-Conference Team" of the Central Conference.

In Edinburgh, she succeeded the Scottish goalkeeper Gemma Fay , who had moved to Celtic Glasgow . The 2010 season ended in fourth place for Edinburgh and it was named "Hibernian's Players Player of the Year". In the following two years, the team was third and won the league cup in 2011. After Chelsea's only healthy goalkeeper Nicola Davies was transferred to Oman with the Royal Air Force in April 2013 , Lynn was hired as an emergency aid. She continued to train in Edinburgh and only flew to England for the Games. After Chelsea goalkeeper Carly Telford , who had broken her hand, was fit again, Lynn continued the season after three league and three league cup games for Chelsea in Edinburgh, which ended with the runner-up.

She moved to Sweden for the 2014 season and has since played in Damallsvenskan for Vittsjö GIK . There she was initially only the second goalkeeper, in 2014 behind the Finnish national team goalkeeper Minna Meriluoto , in 2015 behind the Danish Cecilie Breil Kramer and in 2016 behind the American Katie Fraine . As of 2017, Lynn was "Number 1" at Vittsjö and was used in all 22 league games in which she did not concede a goal five times. As the third from last, however, relegation was just avoided. Also in 2018 she was used in all league games, remained four times without conceding and improved by one place in the table with Vittsjö. For the 2019 season, she received a new competitor, Canadian Sabrina D'Angelo , who was in goal in 20 league games, so that Lynn only made three appearances.

National team

Lynn never played for a Scottish junior team.

For her first appearance in the senior team, she came in her first season in Edinburgh. On June 8, 2010, she came on as a substitute for goalkeeper Gemma Fay in a 1-0 win against Switzerland . But she had to wait nine months for her second assignment. At the Cyprus Cup 2011 she was in the starting line-up in the second group game against England and helped the Scottish women win a game against their southern neighbors for the first time since 1977. After that it was not possible to win again against England. She had established herself in the national team, but remained the second goalkeeper behind Gemma Fay, who subsequently played all the games in the European Championship and World Cup qualifications.

Lynn was only used in friendly games or smaller tournaments, where she was often only substituted on. In June 2017 she was nominated for the EM-2017 , for which the Scottish women had qualified for the first time, but not used there either. Since after the EM Gemma Fay, who had become the world record keeper there, resigned after 203 internationals, it was important for the new Scottish national coach Shelley Kerr to find a new "number 1". Candidates were Shannon Lynn, who had already played 24 international matches up to the European Championship, and Lee Alexander, who was six years younger, had not yet played an international match and was the third goalkeeper at the European Championship.

In the first game after the European Championship, a friendly against Hungary , which was won 3-0 on September 14, 2017, Alexander was in the starting line-up. But she was replaced after an hour when the score was 2-0 and Lynn came on.

In the subsequent qualification for the 2019 World Cup , only Alexander was in goal. The Scottish women qualified as group winners for the first time for a World Cup final. Alexander only stayed in two games without conceding a goal and conceded seven goals. Only Argentina , Jamaica and Thailand conceded more goals from the teams qualified for the World Cup . Nevertheless, before the nomination for the World Cup squad on May 2 , Lynn only made five more appearances in friendly games. But both were nominated for the World Cup. At the World Cup, where the Scottish women were eliminated after the group stage, Lynn was not used.

successes

  • Scottish League Cup Winner: 2011

Awards

  • 2011: Players Player of the Year

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. gomastodons.com: "Former Mastodon Lynn Plays a Big Role on the Scottish National Team"
  2. chelsea.fawsl.com: Chelsea Recruit Goalkeeper Lynn
  3. scotsman.com: Lynn focused on Iceland clash, in dark over Chelsea
  4. ^ England v Scotland 0-2
  5. ^ Hungary v Scotland 0-3
  6. scottishfa.co: "Kerr names historic SWNT squad for World Cup"