Sonia Gegenhuber

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Sonia Gegenhuber
Personnel
birthday September 28, 1970
place of birth South Australia ,  Australia
position Defender
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
Queensland Academy of Sport
Queensland Sting
Coalstars
Eastern suburbs
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1989-1999 Australia 60 (1)
1 Only league games are given.

Sonia Gegenhuber (born September 28, 1970 in South Australia ) is a former Australian soccer player of Austrian descent.

Career

Sonia Gegenhuber was born on September 28, 1970 in the state of South Australia as the daughter of the Austrian Oskar Gegenhuber, who was born in 1939 and emigrated to Australia in 1959. She grew up in the town of Mannum on the Murray River , around 84 kilometers east of Adelaide , and played soccer with her three brothers as a child. She subsequently received special training as a soccer player at the Queensland Academy of Sport (QAS), to which she was a player for many years. There she played for the women's soccer team, also known at times as the Queensland Sting, and was also active with them in the Women's National Soccer League . At club level, she also played for Coalstars and Eastern Suburbs .

In her active career, she represented her home country in 75 international matches; of which she completed 60 alone for the Australian senior women's team . She belonged to the Matildas , the nickname of the team, from 1989 to 1999 and even led them temporarily (1998/99) as team captain . She made her national team debut at the age of 18 against Japan . She scored her only goal in the national team in one of the two qualifying games for the 1991 World Cup , which Australia narrowly missed. With the Australians, who were subsequently able to qualify for all World Cup finals until today (as of 2018), Gegenhuber then took part in a World Cup final for the first time in 1995 and was the last of Group C to be eliminated from the current tournament in the group phase . She herself completed two of the three group games. She was no longer a member of the twenty-strong squad that took part in the 1999 World Cup in the United States . Her last international match was on March 19, 1999, around three months before the tournament, in a 2-0 defeat by China .

After the end of her active career, she concentrated more on training and teaching as well as therapeutic massages . In 2007 she changed briefly for a tour of the Matildas through China in their coaching staff. From 2009 to 2014 she also coached the Queensland U-14 schoolgirl selection .

On the occasion of 50 years of membership in FIFA , she was elected to the women's national football team of the decade for the 1990s by the Australian Football Association in 2013 .

In 2018 she was elected to the Football Federation Australia Hall of Fame ; alongside the men's soccer player Mark Bresciano and the journalist Andrew Dettre .

Web links & sources

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Mannum’s Sonia Gegenhuber, soccer star with Matildas, goes into FFA Hall of Fame (English), accessed on September 13, 2018
  2. ↑ Entry on Oskar Gegenhuber on the official website of the Australian government (English), accessed on September 14, 2018
  3. ↑ a b Sonia Gegenhuber on Ozfootball.net (English), accessed on September 13, 2018
  4. ↑ Matildas Internationals for 1999 on OzFootball.net (English), accessed September 13, 2018
  5. ↑ FFA NAME THEIR TEAMS OF THE DECADES (English), accessed on September 13, 2018
  6. ↑ FFA has announced its Teams of the Decades, to commemorate 50 years as a FIFA member. Here is the Women's Team of the Decade 1990-99. (English), accessed on September 13, 2018
  7. ↑ HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES 2018 (English), accessed on September 13, 2018
  8. ↑ BRESCIANO, GEGENHUBER AND DETTRE INDUCTED INTO HALL OF FAME , accessed on September 13, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Opposite, Sonia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH South Australia , Australia