Charmaine Elizabeth Hooper (born January 15, 1968) is a Canadian retired

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player. A four-time winner of the Canadian Players of the Year award and member of the Canada Soccer Hall of Fame, Hooper played on the

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from 1986 to 2006. As a

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, she stood as Canada's record holder for the women's national team for appearances and goals scored when she retired. Hooper competed in three

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tournaments:

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in Sweden, 1999, and

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in the United States. At club level, Hooper played professionally in Norway, Italy, Japan, and the United States.

Early life

Hooper was born on January 15, 1968, in

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. She and her family moved to

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when Hooper was 6 years old, then later to

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when she was 9. She attended J. S. Woodsworth Secondary School, then later

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. While at NCSU, Hooper was a student-athlete on the

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team. She set the record for most points in a season, most goals in a season, most points in a career, and most goals in a career. The team was

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champions in 1988, made it to the NCAA quarterfinals in 1987 and 1990, the semifinals in 1989, and the final in 1988. She made 89 appearances and scored 58 goals for the Wolfpack and graduated with a degree in food science. Following her career, she was inducted into the NC State Athletic Hall of Fame in 2014.

Club career

In 1993, Hooper played for

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of the Norwegian

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. She scored 17 goals in 13 league appearances. After a short period with

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, Hooper signed a professional contract with Japanese

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club Prima Ham FC Kunoichi. She was a highly valued player in Japan and returned to North America after four seasons: "There was nothing more to gain in Japan. I had won just about every award there. Plus there was the distance." She returned to the United States and played for the Rockford Dactyls and the Chicago Cobras of the

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. She would be inducted into the inaugural class of the United Soccer League's Hall of Fame in 2002. When the

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(WUSA) professional league was being put together in America, Hooper signed a

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but had concerns over the salary structure. Hooper was selected by the Atlanta Beat in the 2000 WUSA Foreign Player Allocation and played for the team for all three seasons of the WUSA's existence, including the championship matches in 2001 and 2003. She returned to the W-League Cobras in 2004, then played in the same league for the

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in 2006. In 2008, she played for the

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of the

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(WPSL), her final season of club competition.

International career

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Hooper made 128 appearances and scored 71 goals for Canada, at one time both national records. Her international debut came on July 7, 1986 against the

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. She represented Canada at three FIFA Women's World Cups (Sweden 1995, USA 1999 and USA 2003). In August 2006 Hooper and

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refused to attend two

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s against

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and fell into dispute with team coach

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. Along with a third disgruntled player,

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, they publicly called for Pellerud's removal. Alleging he had pressured them to break their club contracts in order to join

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and had tried to fix the outcome of a

play-off by releasing certain national team players but not others. Pellerud suspended the players and terminated their funding. In June 2007 an arbitrator ruled in favor of the coach. Hooper's replacement as captain Christine Sinclair strongly criticized the players' actions: "They let down their teammates and since then have done nothing to rectify it. I wouldn't want them as teammates." Hooper was inducted into the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame in June 2012. The same year in October she was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in Calgary.

Personal

She is the sister of

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, also a former Canadian footballer, and Ian Hooper, the Director of Business Operations for the Ottawa Champions Baseball Club. She is from

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. She is married to

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, a University soccer coach. They have a daughter. In 2014, she and her husband were featured on the show '' Fixer Upper'' as they selected and renovated their home, which ultimately became a baby care center.

Career statistics

Club

''These statistics are incomplete and currently represent a portion of Hooper's career.''

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hooper, Charmaine 1968 births Living people Black Canadian women's soccer players Expatriate women's footballers in Norway Canadian women's soccer players Canada women's international soccer players 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup players 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup players Expatriate footballers in Japan Guyanese emigrants to Canada Afro-Guyanese people Canadian expatriate sportspeople in Italy Canadian expatriate sportspeople in Japan Canadian expatriate sportspeople in Norway Canadian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Naturalized citizens of Canada NC State Wolfpack women's soccer players Sportspeople from Georgetown, Guyana Soccer players from Ottawa Women's United Soccer Association players Atlanta Beat (WUSA) players FIFA Century Club S.S. Lazio Women 2015 players Serie A (women's football) players Toppserien players Expatriate women's footballers in Italy FK Donn players Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States Expatriate women's footballers in Japan Iga FC Kunoichi players Nadeshiko League players Women's association football forwards Nadeshiko League MVPs Chicago Cobras players USL W-League (1995–2015) players