Steffi Jones

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Steffi Jones
Handover of the DFB Cup to Ambassadors Toni Schumacher and Janus Fröhlich-6606.jpg
Steffi Jones in Cologne (2013)
Personnel
Surname Stephanie Ann Jones
birthday December 22, 1972
place of birth Frankfurt am Main ,  Germany
size 180 cm
position Central defense
Juniors
Years station
1976-1986 SV Bonames
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
1986-1991 SG Praunheim
1991-1992 FSV Frankfurt
1992-1993 SG Praunheim
1993-1994 TuS Niederkirchen
1994-1997 SG Praunheim
1997-1998 FSV Frankfurt
1998-2000 SC 07 Bad Neuenahr
2000-2002 1. FFC Frankfurt
2002-2003 Washington Freedom
2003-2007 1. FFC Frankfurt
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1993-2007 Germany 111 (9)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2015-2016 Germany (Co-Trainer)
2016-2018 Germany
2019– SSV Buer 07/28 (assistant trainer)
1 Only league games are given.

Stephanie Ann "Steffi" Jones (born December 22, 1972 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a former German soccer player . She played in the Bundesliga from 1991 to 2007 and in the national team from 1993 to 2007 . From 2008 to 2011 she was President of the Organizing Committee for the 2011 Women's World Cup and from 2011 to 2015 Director of the German Football Association . From September 2016 to March 2018 she was Silvia Neid's successor as national coach .

Life

Steffi Jones, daughter of an Afro-American US soldier and a German, grew up in Frankfurt-Bonames . The father left the family and returned to the United States when she was three years old. Jones completed an apprenticeship as a wholesale and foreign trade clerk and a soccer teacher training at the German Sport University in Cologne. In addition to being German , she is also a citizen of the United States .

Jones has been dating Nicole Parma since 2012. On June 7, 2014 both registered a civil partnership under the common surname Jones. She works in her wife's IT company, is socially committed and gives lectures. Since April 2019, she has been volunteering as an assistant coach for the women's regional league team at SSV Buer. In 2020 she took part in the 13th season of Let's Dance , her assigned dance partner was Robert Beitsch , they were eliminated in the 1st live show.

Athletic career

Steffi Jones started playing soccer at the age of four. From 1976 to 1986 she played in the male youth team of SV Bonames in Frankfurt. She then moved to the women's team at SG Praunheim for five years . In 1990 she was the top scorer in the upper league with 15 goals in 18 matches and led the club into the Bundesliga. In the following years she changed clubs frequently, which earned her the reputation of “change queen of the Bundesliga”: 1991/92 at FSV Frankfurt , 1992/93 return to SG Praunheim, 1993/94 for TuS Niederkirchen , 1994-1997 again for the SG Praunheim, 1997/98 again with FSV Frankfurt, from 1998 to 2000 for SC 07 Bad Neuenahr and since 2000 with 1. FFC Frankfurt . Her active career, she completed the end of 2007. In between, she played from 2002 to 2003 in the United States in the women's professional league ( WUSA ) for Washington Freedom , where they on the side of the two-time World Player of Mia Hamm won the US championship.

Farewell to Jones from 1. FFC Frankfurt (December 2007)

Her first international match was played by Jones in 1993 against Denmark in the game for third place at the European Championship , which was lost. Jones was substituted on under the name Jones-Field . In 1997 she was called up again in the EM squad. As the organizer of the German defense, she played a major role in winning the European Championship, was finally appointed to the All-Star team and named the best defender of the tournament. In 1999 Steffi Jones took part in her first World Cup. A year later she won the bronze medal with the national team at the Olympic Games in Sydney . In 2001 she played in the victorious German team at the European Championships in her own country.

At the 2003 World Cup in the USA, she tore a cruciate ligament in her right knee in the preliminary round match against Argentina and had to take a six-month break. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens she won the bronze medal and was awarded the silver laurel leaf on March 16, 2005.

In 2005 she became European champion with the national team for the third time in a row . After 111 international matches, she announced her resignation from the national team on March 26, 2007. One reason was the physical wear and tear after 30 years of sports.

Worked for the DFB

Jones with the former US soccer player Mia Hamm and the US Ambassador Philip D. Murphy as part of the World Cup organization in Augsburg (2009)
As DFB director, Jones is handing over the women's DFB trophy for May 19, 2013 to the final in Cologne. The two ambassadors, FC Vice President Toni Schumacher and Höhner drummer Janus Fröhlich will receive the trophy .

On November 9, 2007, the DFB appointed Steffi Jones as President of the Organizing Committee for the 2011 Women's World Cup . After completing this position, which she took up on January 1, 2008 and for which she has received several awards, Steffi Jones became director at the DFB, responsible for women's football, girls' football and school football.

After the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , Jones became national coach of the women's national team, replacing Silvia Neid . Jones is in possession of a football instructor license; However, since she had no coaching experience, the decision of the DFB was openly criticized. In order to gain experience, she had already become Neid's co-trainer in August 2015 and a few months earlier had sat in on the U19 national team in Greece under the then coach Marcus Sorg .

At the 2017 European Women's Football Championship in the Netherlands , the national team was eliminated by a 1: 2 defeat in the quarter-finals against Denmark . Following this early departure, both negative and positive criticisms were leveled at Jones.

After the tournament, the DFB Jones expressed their confidence and extended their contract to the 2019 World Cup in France, with the option of a further extension until the 2020 Olympic Games. After the poor performance of their team at the SheBelieves Cup 2018 , in which this only finished last, she was released from her duties on March 13, 2018 with immediate effect.

Co-trainer at SSV Buer

Since April 2019, Jones has been assistant coach of the women's national league team at SSV Buer 07/28 .

social commitment

On February 23, 2012, Steffi Jones was appointed board member of the Bundesliga Foundation . On October 31, 2014, she resigned from the board due to a restructuring of the foundation.

successes

Club soccer

  • German champion in 1998 with FSV Frankfurt
  • German champion 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2007 with the 1. FFC Frankfurt
  • DFB Cup winner 2001, 2002 and 2003 with 1. FFC Frankfurt
  • 2003 US champion with Washington Freedom
  • UEFA Women's Cup winner with 1. FFC Frankfurt in 2002 and 2006

National team

  • World Champion 2003
  • European champion in 1997, 2001 and 2005
  • Olympic bronze medal 2000 and 2004

Awards

  • June 11, 2006: Hessian Order of Merit on ribbon "for years of voluntary work as patron of the project 'Ballance 2006 - Integration and Tolerance for a Peaceful Football World Cup.'"
  • 2010: Georg August Zinn Prize
  • FIFA Ambassador for Women's Football
  • 2019: Induction into the Hall of Fame

Trivia

  • Jones was called "chocolate" by her teammates.
  • Jones is not related to former Schalke 04 player Jermaine Jones ; her mother, however, was Jermaine Jones' childminder, so they both know each other; they also grew up in the same part of town.
  • In August 2007, Jones' autobiographical book The Kick of Life was published by Fischer Taschenbuchverlag .
  • In 2011 Jones had a guest appearance on the television series Tatort in the episode Im Abseits .
  • Until October 2011, Jones was the patron of the Respect! No place for racism .
  • In 2020 Jones took part in the 13th season of Let's Dance , but dropped out after the first broadcast. Your assigned dance partner was Robert Beitsch .

publication

  • The kick of life: how I made my way up . With the assistance of Broka Herrmann. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-17641-0 .

Web links

Commons : Steffi Jones  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steffi Jones comes out - "Yes, we are a couple". ( dpa ). Die Welt , February 3, 2013, accessed August 1, 2017 .
  2. ↑ They rave about their love happiness. Bunte.de, June 11, 2014, accessed on August 1, 2017 .
  3. ↑ The loser wants to stay. Die Zeit , July 31, 2017, accessed on August 1, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Antje Windmann: “What really annoys me is this Klüngel-Klüngel at the DFB.” In: Der Spiegel . 24/2019, June 8, 2019. pp. 100-104 (interview).
  5. ↑ Press release of the Office of the Federal President of March 16, 2005 .... Awarding of the Silver Laurel Leaf to the medal winners of the 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games ...
  6. ↑ Steffi Jones resigns from the national team immediately. DFB, March 26, 2007, accessed on March 14, 2018 .
  7. ↑ My life - Steffi Jones. (No longer available online.) Phoenix , September 6, 2009, archived from the original on March 14, 2018 ; accessed on March 14, 2018 . 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.phoenix.de
  8. ↑ Interview in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from December 31, 2011
  9. ^ DFB central administration ( Memento from January 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Jones succeeds Neid in 2016. DFB, March 30, 2015, accessed on March 14, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Hennes-Weisweiler-Akademie 2000–2008 ( Memento from June 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ morgenweb.de: Critique of Steffi Jones , accessed on June 23, 2015.
  13. ↑ focus.de: Potsdam coach Schröder wants men's quota in women's football , accessed on June 23, 2015.
  14. ↑ Jones is now assistant trainer of Neid ( Memento from September 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ Steffi Jones. In: My dream elf. January 24, 2019, accessed on October 3, 2019 (German).
  16. ↑ Bernd Schröder strongly criticizes national coach Steffi Jones. Retrieved August 9, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Ralf Kellermann: The Germans were afraid of losing something. Retrieved August 9, 2017 .
  18. ↑ DFB Presidium expresses her trust in national coach Jones. Retrieved August 9, 2017 .
  19. ↑ After the bankruptcy of the SheBelieves Cup - Jones more than ever under pressure. sportschau.de, March 8, 2018, accessed on March 13, 2018 .
  20. ↑ a b DFB releases national coach Steffi Jones from duties. dfb.de, March 13, 2018, accessed on March 13, 2018 .
  21. ↑ Steffi Jones. ssvbuer.de, May 1, 2019, accessed on January 19, 2020 .
  22. ↑ Steffi Jones appointed to the board. DFL Foundation, February 23, 2012, accessed on March 14, 2018 .
  23. ↑ The Bundesliga Foundation streamlines its committee structure - Stefan Kiefer is the new CEO. In: bundesliga-stiftung.de. Bundesliga Foundation, October 17, 2012, accessed on August 25, 2016 .
  24. ↑ press release. (PDF, 240 KB) Hessian State Chancellery, June 14, 2006, accessed on March 14, 2018 .
  25. ↑ Steffi Jones awarded the Georg August Zinn Prize. FIFA, November 17, 2010, accessed March 14, 2018 .
  26. ↑ Jones and Prinz named FIFA Women's Football Ambassadors. FIFA, April 17, 2012, accessed March 14, 2018 .
  27. ↑ Half of the ball for the women! Emma , January 1, 1998, accessed March 14, 2018 .
  28. ↑ The face of the Women's World Cup. Rheinische Post online, May 5, 2011, accessed on March 14, 2018 .
  29. ↑ Ex-soccer professional Steffi Jones is fighting for the dance title on rtl.de, from January 14, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Jones, Steffi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jones, Stephanie Ann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main