Tobin Heath

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Tobin Heath
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Tobin Heath, PSG-Juvisy, 2013
Personnel
Surname Tobin Powell Heath
birthday May 29, 1988
place of birth Basking Ridge , New Jersey ,  USA
size 168 cm
position Midfield , attack
Juniors
Years station
PDA wildcats
2002-2004 Ridge Red Devils
2006-2010 North Carolina Tar Heels
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
2004-2005 New Jersey Wildcats 7 0(1)
2007 Jersey sky blue 5 0(5)
2009 Pali blues 6 0(1)
2010 Hudson Valley Quickstrike 5 0(5)
2011 Atlanta beat 3 0(0)
2012 Sky Blue FC 12 0(0)
2012 New York Fury 1 0(0)
2013– Portland Thorns FC 79 (15)
2013 →  Paris Saint-Germain  (loan) 8 0(4)
2013-2014 → Paris Saint-Germain (loan) 7 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
USA U-14
2003-2004 USA U-16
2004-2005 U-17
U-20 14 (2)
2006 U-21
2009 U-23
2008– United States 168 (33)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2019

2 As of March 11, 2020

Tobin Powell Heath (born May 29, 1988 in Basking Ridge , New Jersey ) is an American football player . She has been playing for the US national team since 2008 , with which she won the World Cup in 2015 and 2019.

life and career

Heath warming up before the friendly against Canada on September 17, 2011

societies

Heath started playing football at Ridge High School . After enrolling at the University of North Carolina , she played for the North Carolina Tar Heels women's soccer with which she won the NCAA title three times .

In 2012 she played for New York Fury in the Women's Premier Soccer League Elite .

In the 2013 season she played in the newly founded National Women's Soccer League , the highest American professional league in women's football for Portland Thorns FC . On January 25, 2013, she signed a six-month contract with the French Division 1 club Paris Saint-Germain . On February 3, 2013, she scored her first Division 1 Ligue goal for PSG in her debut. After the end of the season in France, in which she scored four goals in eight games and was runner-up, she returned to Portland. On August 31, 2013, she was with the Thorns in their first final and contributed a goal to the 2-0 victory as the “player of the game”. Then she went back to Paris, where she remained without a goal in seven games.

In the National Women's Soccer League 2016 she finished first with the Portland Thorns after the league round, but failed in the playoff semifinals because of the eventual winner Western New York Flash . Heath was chosen as the best template provider in the NWSL Best XI team. In 2017 she only made four appearances due to an ankle injury, but was in the final, which was won 1-0 against North Carolina Courage . In 2018 she made 19 appearances in which she scored eight goals. The final was reached again, but this time lost 3-0 to North Carolina Courage.

National teams

Heath played through all US youth teams and in 2006, at the age of 18, was the third youngest player in the U-20 team, which finished fourth at the U-20 World Cup after losing on penalties in both the semifinals and the third-place match. With the U-20 team, she won the silver medal at the 2007 Pan American Games . In January 2007 she was invited for the first time to the training of the senior national team and made her first senior international match against Finland on January 18, 2008 . In the first game of the Algarve Cup on March 5, 2008, she scored her first international goal with a 2-0 win in a 4-0 win over China . She was substituted on in the second half of all four games in the Algarve Cup.

As the youngest player of the US levy for the Olympic Games in Beijing she came in three games to brief appearances. In 2009 she played two more international matches, in 2010 she broke her ankle early in the WPS season and therefore only returned to the four-nation tournament in January 2011. She was the third youngest player in the US squad for the 2011 World Cup in Germany . In the second World Cup game against Colombia , she came on in the 62nd minute and thus came to her first World Cup game. In the quarter-finals against Brazil , which the USA won after a 2-2 nV 5-3 on penalties, she was substituted on in the 108th minute, but could no longer set any accents. After beating France in the semi-final, in which she was substituted on again, the US team was in the final against Japan. Here, too, Heath was substituted on shortly before the end. Three minutes after being substituted on, Japan equalized 2-2 and again the penalty shoot-out had to decide. Here Heath came in as the third shooter, but the Japanese goalkeeper was also able to save her shot. Since Shannon Boxx and Carli Lloyd could not convert before , the penalty shoot-out went 3-1 to Japan and the US team won silver.

Heath was in the squad for the Olympic football tournament in London and was used in all six games. In the final against Japan on August 9, 2012, she won the gold medal for the second time.

She was also called up for the US squad for the 2015 World Cup . It was used in six games. In the first group game against Australia , she came on in the 68th minute for Christen Press . It was not taken into account against Sweden. In the last group game against Nigeria she was in the starting line-up, but was replaced after 80 minutes. The substitute for her Christie Rampone set a new age record with her first appearance at the World Cup eight days before her 40th birthday. In the final round she was always in the starting line-up, but was substituted in the semifinals against Germany when the score was 1-0. The substitute for her Kelley O'Hara then scored the 2-0 final score with her first international goal. In the final against Japan , she scored the last goal in a 5-2 record win and became world champion for the first time.

On August 19, 2015, she made her 100th international match as part of the Victory Tour in a 7-2 win against Costa Rica .

She was also on the roster for the 2016 Summer Olympics qualifier , which the United States won. It was only not used in the 10-0 in the last group game against Puerto Rico . In the semifinals against Trinidad & Tobago and in the final against Canada she scored one goal each. She was voted the best right midfielder on the tournament's all-star team. At the Olympic Games, however , she and her team failed in the quarterfinals due to a penalty shoot-out against the Swedes trained by their former national coach Pia Sundhage , so that the USA did not reach the final for the first time. In 2017 she only made four international appearances due to an injury and only came to the national team in June 2018. She won the Tournament of Nations 2018 and helped win the CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup 2018 by four goals . The USA qualified for the 2019 World Cup by winning the Gold Cup. On May 1, 2019, it was nominated for the 2019 World Cup . At the World Cup she was used in six games. Only in the group game against Chile , when most of the regular players weren't used, she was also on the bench. A goal it not succeed, but in the group game against Sweden one of her kicks from an opponent was drawn into his own goal and as own goal scored the Swede. Due to her final appearance, she is one of the six players who have made it to a World Cup final three times, but of these she has the fewest minutes of action in the final games.

successes

Awards

Web links

Commons : Tobin Heath  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pali Blues - 2009 Statistics ( Memento of February 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), uslsoccer.com (English). Retrieved January 23, 2014
  2. ↑ ussoccer.com: NWSL Announces Allocation of 55 National Team Players to Eight Clubs ( Memento from March 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Tobin Heath joins Paris Saint-Germain - Women's team - PSG.fr
  4. ↑ Americans Abroad: Tobin Heath scores in PSG debut
  5. ↑ US Women Defeat China, 4-0, To Open 2008 Algarve Cup ( Memento from October 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup roster. Archived from the original on May 14, 2011 ; accessed on August 26, 2014 (English).
  7. ↑ FIFA.com: USA get off to a perfect start
  8. ↑ ussoccer.com: "WNT Defeats Canada 2-0 to Win 2016 CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying Championship"
  9. ↑ concacaf.com: "TSG announces CWOQ Best XI, Awards" ( Memento from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ ussoccer.com: Meet the USA's 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup Team
personal data
SURNAME Heath, Tobin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heath, Tobin Powell (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American national soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Basking Ridge , New Jersey