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Can you name some women football players? |
By football i mean soccer. England women's national football team Goalkeepers Jo Fletcher Rachel Brown Siobhan Chamberlain Carly Telford Kay Hawke Defenders Amy Kane Rachel Unitt Mary Phillip Faye White Casey Stoney Alex Scott Lindsay Johnson Laura Bassett Stephanie Houghton Corrine Yorston Michelle Hickmott Midfielders Katie Holtham Carla Cantrell Michelle Evans Sue Smith Katie Chapman Vicky Exley Fara Williams Anita Asante Emily Westwood Jo Potter Kelly McDougall Jill Scott Forwards Eniola Aluko Rachel Yankey Kelly Smith Amanda Barr Jody Handley Karen Carney Lianne Sanderson Katie Anderton no i don't watch them play I won't cheat and copy a list, but here's the USA players I can think of: Mia Hamm Abby Wambach Brianna Scurry Christine Lily Judy (or Julie) Foudy Brandi Chastain Natasha Kai Here are some British pioneers who may interest you: NETTIE HONEYBALL (honest!) recruited enough players to form two squads in London in 1894. Five thousand people saw the British Ladies Football Club play a match in Bury (northwest England), eight thousand in Newcastle. The club folded the next year when the novelty of women's football wore off. ALICE KELLwas the captain of a team that formed in 1914 at an engineering company--Dick, Kerr--in Preston (near Liverpool). She had a hat-trick in a match at Everton watched by 53,000 people in 1920. LILY PARR joined the Dick Kerr Ladies that year, at age 14, and became its star player--for over 30 years. Missed five games, scored 967 goals. CARMEN POMIES was a French player and champion javelin thrower who joined Dick Kerr. Center-forward FLORRIE REDFORD was the leading scorer (or"artilheira," as Brazil's MARTA would say) when the team toured the eastern U.S. in 1923. She, Lily, FLORRIE HASLAM, and MOLLY WALKER challenged the U.S. women's running team to a relay race--and won. The Dick Kerr Ladies raised scores of thousands of pounds (the equivilant of a few millions today) for war- and strike-relief. JULIE FOUDY was my favorite player for the U.S. The site below has a lot more information, and photos about the pioneers. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/fwo... well here are the US players i can think of off the top of my head: julie foudy mia hamm carli lloyd natasha kai briana scurry brandi chastain tiffany milbrett LaKeysia Beene Jenny Benson Kylie Bivens Shannon Boxx Jenni Branam Lori Chalupny Lorrie Fair Joy Fawcett Danielle Fotopoulos Devvyn Hawkins Angela Hucles Jena Kluegel Amy LePeilbet Kristine Lilly Kristen Luckenbill Shannon MacMillan Kate Markgraf Heather Mitts Siri Mullinix Heather O'Reilly Leslie Osborne Jaime Pagliarulo Cindy Parlow Nandi Pryce Christie Rampone Catherine Reddick Danielle Slaton Hope Solo Lindsay Tarpley Stacey Tullock Aly Wagner Abby Wambach |
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