Sophie Howard
| Sophie Howard | ||
 Howard at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim (2018)
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | 17th September 1993 | |
| place of birth | Hanau , Germany | |
| size | 175 cm | |
| position | Defense | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| -2009 | SV Phoenix Düdelsheim | |
| 2009-2010 | TSG 1899 Hoffenheim | |
| 2012-2015 | UCF Knights | |
| Women | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2009–2012 | TSG 1899 Hoffenheim | 59 (2) |
| 2013 | Colorado Rapids Women | 4 (1) |
| 2014-2015 | Colorado Pride | 21 (1) |
| 2015-2018 | TSG 1899 Hoffenheim | 63 (1) |
| 2018– | Reading FC | 6 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) 2 |
| 2012 | Germany U-20 | 2 (0) |
| 2016 | England U-23 | |
| 2017– | Scotland | 14 (1) |
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1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2018/19 2 As of April 8, 2019 |
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Sophie Howard (born September 17, 1993 in Hanau ) is a German - British soccer player .
Club career
Beginnings in Hoffenheim
Howard moved in 2009 from the Hessian SV Phönix Düdelsheim to the then regional league team TSG 1899 Hoffenheim . With the U17 juniors of Hoffenheim, she was in her first season South German champion and runner-up in the 2009/10 B-junior championship. In the same season Howard also played for the first team of Hoffenheim, with which she was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga South at the end of the 2009/10 season . By the 2011/2012 season she had played 17 regional league, 42 second division and eight cup games for TSG.
Change to the USA
During the 2011/12 season , Sophie Howard announced that she wanted to move to the United States . She had just finished high school in Walldorf and wanted to study at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida . There she also played college soccer with the UCF Knights, where she played with Lena Petermann and Karoline Heinze . In her first season she was on the field in all but one of the games. Because of her performance, she was appointed to the All-Conference USA Freshman Team at the end of the season. In 2013 she was appointed to the American Athletic Conference All-Tournament Team.
From 2013 to 2015 she was active in the North American W-League for the Colorado Rapids Women and Colorado Pride .
Return to Germany
In February 2015 it was announced that Howard will be moving back to TSG 1899 Hoffenheim in summer 2015. There she established herself as a regular player right at the beginning of the season. After three years, she left the club in the summer of 2018 and moved to Reading FC in England.
National team
Howard took part with the German U-20 selection in the U-20 World Cup for women in Japan , but was not used. On August 11, 2016, Howard was appointed to the Next Gen squad (U 23) of England. On March 31, 2017, Howard, who has a Scottish grandfather, was called up to the Scottish women's national soccer team for a friendly against the Belgian women's national soccer team, where she made her debut on April 11th as a substitute.
With the Scottish women, she took part in the 2017 European Women's Football Championship , but did not play any of the team's games.
During the January training camp 2018 she was in the starting line-up for the first time in the 3-0 defeat against Norway on January 19, 2018 and played the full distance.
In qualifying for the 2019 World Cup , she was used in four games and was always in the starting eleven, including the last two decisive games through which the Scottish women ultimately qualified for a World Cup finals for the first time.
On May 15, she was then nominated for the first Scottish Women's World Cup squad.
On May 28, 2019, she came on as a substitute for the test match against Jamaica in the second half and scored the 3-2 final score in the 68th minute with her first international goal.
successes
- Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga South in 2009/2010
- Champion in the regional league for B-Juniors Southwest 2009/2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ Women: Sophie Howard leaves Hoffenheim in 1899 . TSG 1899 Hoffenheim . May 10, 2012. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
- ↑ Colorado Rapids - 2013 Statistics ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 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. (Renamed Colorado Storm in 2014 ), wleaguesoccer.com (English). Retrieved March 3, 2015.
- ↑ Colorado Pride - 2014 ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2015 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. , 2015 ( Memento of the original from November 17, 2015 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. Statistics, wleaguesoccer.com (English). Retrieved November 13, 2015.
- ↑ Nora Kruse: TSG Hoffenheim brings Sophie Howard back . womensoccer.de. February 26, 2015. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
- ↑ FA announces Next Gen team to replace England Women's U23s . Sky Sports. August 11, 2016. Retrieved August 11, 2016.
- ↑ bbc.com: "Scotland women: Signeul hopes to add Barsley and Howard to squad to face Belgium"
- ↑ Belgium v Scotland 5-0
- ↑ scottishfa.co: "Kerr names historic SWNT squad for World Cup"
- ↑ scottishfa.co: The Story of SWNT 3 - 2 Jamaica | World Cup send-off
Web links
- Sophie Howard in the database of weltfussball.de
- Sophie Howard in the Soccerdonna.de database
- Profile on Reading FC website
- Sophie Howard in the database of the Scottish Football Association (English)
- Sophie Howard in the soccerway.com database
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Howard, Sophie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Scottish soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th September 1993 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanau |