Sonia Bompastor
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 Sonia Bompastor
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | June 8, 1980 | |
| place of birth | Blois , France | |
| size | 1.62 m | |
| position | left wing | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1988-1992 | US Mer | |
| 1992-1997 | US Thoury | |
| 1997-2000 | Tours EC | |
| Women | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2000-2002 | ESOF La Roche | 40 (7) |
| 2002-2006 | HSC Montpellier | 73 (38) |
| 2006-2009 | Olympique Lyon | 59 (23) |
| 2009 | Washington Freedom | 19 (1) |
| 2009-2010 | Paris Saint-Germain | 13 (10) |
| 2010 | Washington Freedom | 22 (5) |
| 2010-2013 | Olympique Lyon | 59 (4) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 2000-2012 | France | 156 (19) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Sonia Bompastor (born June 8, 1980 in Blois ) is a former French football player . The daughter of a Portuguese immigrant family, who initially played mainly in defensive midfield and later played an offensive full-back role , most recently wore the colors of Olympique Lyon ; she was also a regular player in the women's national team for over twelve years . After a total of eight national championship titles, four French and two European Cup victories, she ended her active career in 2013.
Club career
Bompastor joined Union Sportive when she was eight years old , where she lived in Mer , where she initially played in the boys' team. In retrospect, she found it positive that the opposing side often heard sentences such as "The US Mer has set up a girl, we have an easy time of it", because it "helped to improve my fighting spirit". When she was too old to be allowed to compete in a mixed team - in France this is allowed up to the age of 12 - she moved to the neighboring US Thoury , which had a women's team. There she was used in her first year in the women's league, which competed in the Division d'Honneur , the third division. Five years later (1997) Sonia Bompastor joined the Tours EC. From 1998 she was accepted into the national women's football performance center in Clairefontaine , where she “trained from Monday to Friday” and played for her club on the weekends, parallel to her professional training - she has a high school diploma in the commercial sector. According to her own statement, the foundations for her successful career were laid in Clairefontaine: "Toughness and perseverance, tactical understanding, but also maintenance of performance and methods of regeneration". After moving from Tours to ESOF La Roche , she made her debut in the French premier league in 2000 .
Sonia Bompastor, who is just 1.62 m tall and weighs a little over 50 kg, won her first title with HSC Montpellier , which she joined in 2002. There she was in the championship team in 2004 and 2005 and in the cup winning team in 2006 . She then moved to Olympique Lyon, where she won further championships in 2007 and 2008 and the national cup again in 2008. She was also named the best player in the French league in 2008 for the second time since 2004 . In March 2009 she moved to Washington Freedom for six months in the US professional league Women's Professional Soccer and then returned to France, where she played almost a season for Paris Saint-Germain . This was followed by another six-month contract in Washington. During her two engagements in US football, she particularly learned to appreciate the offensive orientation practiced there, but also the absolute professionalism and not least the better earning potential; in addition, it was only in Washington that she developed her view of the “bigger picture of football”. Bompastor calls her teammate Abby Wambach there as "the epitome of a professional athlete at the highest level". She herself was appointed to the all-star team in the women's league.
After her second stay in the USA, she rejoined Olympique Lyon in 2010, collecting further titles there every year in Division 1 Féminine, the Coupe de France and also at international level: in 2011 and 2012 , she took the UEFA trophy as Olympiques captain Champions League against.
Her Lyon club coach Patrice Lair characterized Bompastor's role on and off the field in 2012 with the words: "Due to her professionalism, her commitment and her absolute will to win, she would be the leader in every men's team".
In the national team
Sonia Bompastor, 19 years old, made her debut in the French senior team on February 26, 2000 in a game against Scotland . As a result, she developed into a regular player for the Bleues ; while her role in the rise of the French women to the European and later to the world elite was undisputed both under national coach Élisabeth Loisel and under her successor Bruno Bini . She took part in three European Championship ( 2001 in Germany , 2005 in England and 2009 in Finland ) and two World Cup finals ( 2003 in the United States and 2011 in Germany ). She was also part of the French 2012 Olympic squad in London . In total, she made 24 appearances in these continental tournaments, all of them in the starting eleven, and was only absent from a single game in France: In 2011, coach Bini left the Bompastor, who had been charged with a yellow card, on the bench in the last group game against hosts Germany in order not to be in To have to do without them in the quarterfinals.
Bompastor had played their 100th international match on September 27, 2008 in a European Championship qualifier against Iceland . On August 9, 2012 at the Olympic tournament, she played her 156th and last encounter - the match lost against Canada for the bronze medal - for the Bleues , where she also scored 19 goals in this circle. This included a dozen games against selection teams from German-speaking countries, six between 2001 and 2012 against Switzerland , four against Germany (between 2003 and 2009) and two against Austria in 2005 and 2006. With their 156 " caps " behind Sandrine Soubeyrand she has the second-most international matches of all French national players - and also more than France's record international for men, Lilian Thuram . (Status: July 1, 2013)
At the end of the 2011 World Cup tournament, FIFA added Sonia Bompastor to the 12-person shortlist for the selection of the tournament's best player. In the same year, the world federation also nominated her for her ten players comprehensive preselection for the award as World Player of the Year 2011 ( Ballon d'Or ).
Until recently, Sonia Bompastor had hoped, although coach Bini did not consider it in any game of the 2012/13 season, to be included in the 2013 European Championship squad for the French team due to her performance at the club . When this failed to materialize - in her own words a “brutal ending” - she decided in June 2013 to put an end to her career. As for her disregard since the Olympic Games in 2012, Bompastor suspected that she had used too frank words with the coach about the two, in her view disappointing fourth places in 2011 and 2012. She had accused Bini of “insufficiently profound analysis of the causes for the disappointing fourth place in London”, criticized his training methods (“hardly ever training on goal”) and, in the period that followed, his personnel decisions.
Life after the time as a player
Sonia Bompastor, who intends to acquire the trainer 's diploma, was accepted into the staff of the orienteering women immediately after the end of her career. In particular, she should monitor future Champions League opponents , coordinate the work of the female youth teams and act as a talent scout. She now heads Lyon's youth development center for girls and young women.
In mid-June 2015, she gave birth to her first child, a daughter.
Palmarès
- French champion: 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013
- French cup winner: 2006, 2008, 2012, 2013
- Champions League winner: 2011, 2012
- Appointment to the team of the tournament at the 2011 World Cup
- Awarded the UNFP trophy as the best player in the French league: 2004, 2008
literature
- Article “Bompastor - Little big woman” in France Football of June 25, 2013, pp. 42/43
Web links
- Bompastors data sheet on the website of the French Football Association FFF
- Datasheet at footofeminin.fr
Notes and evidence
- ^ According to Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau: Au bonheur des filles. , Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2003, ISBN 2-911698-25-8 , p. 235, Bompastor held the position of six at the 2003 World Cup.
- ↑ a b c "Bompastor - Little big woman", p. 42
- ↑ a b "Bompastor - Little big woman", p. 43
- ↑ France Football, June 5, 2012, p. 57
- ↑ see the FIFA preselection list
- ↑ Interview with Sonia Bompastor ("Où est la cohérence?") In France Football of July 9, 2013, p. 45
- ↑ see the article "Sonia Bompastor intègre le staff des féminines" from June 17, 2013 at 20minutes.fr
- ↑ according to the article " La Une de L'Équipe, la naissance de Louane," coup de pied aux fesses " " from June 20, 2015 at footofeminin.fr
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bompastor, Sonia |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | french soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1980 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Blois , France |