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Juvisy Juvisy-sur-Orge (, literally ''Juvisy on Orge'') is a commune in the Essonne department in Île-de-France in northern France. It is located 18 km south-east of Paris, a few kilometres south of Orly Airport. The site of the town has been o ...

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Juvisy-sur-Orge Juvisy-sur-Orge (, literally ''Juvisy on Orge'') is a commune in the Essonne department in Île-de-France in northern France. It is located 18 km south-east of Paris, a few kilometres south of Orly Airport. The site of the town has been oc ...

Essonne Essonne () is a department of France in the southern Île-de-France region. It is named after the river Essonne. In 2019, it had a population of 1,301,659 across 194 communes.National Order of Merit for her services to French football, Valérie Fourneyron ( France Minister of Sports) presented her with the insignia on 5 February 2013 in Évry.

Club career

Early career

Soubeyrand began playing at the age of 6 for local club ''Boulieu-lès-Annonay'' in the département of Ardèche. At the age of 13, she joined ''FC Félines Saint-Cyr'' in Saint-Cyr where she spent seven years.

Caluire

In August 1994, she arrived in

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(

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) to play for ''Caluire Saint-Clair SC'' of the National 1B (second division). In her first season (1994–95), the club won the National 1B title and was promoted to the National 1A for the 1995–96 season. She remained with the club in the National 1A for the following seasons until the club's relegation at the conclusion of the 1999–00 season.

Juvisy

Ahead of the 2000–01 season, she joined National 1A club

FCF Juvisy Paris FC is a French women's football club based in Viry-Châtillon, a suburb of Paris. The club is the female section of Ligue 2 men's club Paris FC. The club was founded in 1971 and currently play in the Division 1 Féminine, the first divis ...

in the département of

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, where she played three matches and scored two goals, both against Polish side

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. The club finish that season's D1 in third place. Juvisy finish as D1 runners up in 2004–05 and won the

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, beating Olympique Lyonnais (Lyon) in the final. After a 1–1 draw, the match was decided on

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, Soubeyrand took Juvisy's third shot which was saved by Lyon's goalkeeper

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, despite the non-conversion, Juvisy won 5–4. She won the D1 for a second time in 2005–06 and played all 22 matches. In the following season, she played 21 matches in the D1 to finish third and one match in the

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. She was D1 runner up in 2007–08 and played 21 matches. At the 2008–09 season, despite being 35 years old, Soubeyrand appeared in 20 of the club's 22 matches and scored seven goals helping Juvisy finish in third, one point shy of qualifying for the newly created

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(re-branding of the UEFA Women's Cup). In the following season, Soubeyrand took part in all 22 games in the league, scoring and assisting three goals. In the same season, Juvisy managed to qualify for the

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but merely missed out on the league title to defending champions Lyon. In the 2010–11 season with Juvisy, she participated in 21 league games, managing to go goalless, but assisting six goals. This was only the second time in her career with the club since 2001 that she did not score a league goal in a season. She finished the season in fourth place and also played in the Champions League, participating in nine games, scoring twice to reached the quarter-final stage, being badly beaten and knocked out of the competition 9–2 on aggregate against the finalists

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. In the 2011–12 season, Soubeyrand finished runners up once again with Juvisy, behind league winners Lyon. In

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, she ended the season in third place with Juvisy, but managed to go all the way to the semi-finals in the

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where they suffered a heavy 9–1 defeat on aggregate to fellow country club Lyon. In the 2013–14 league season, she finished third once again with Juvisy, assisting ten goals and scoring one. Sandrine retired after Juvisy's final league game of the 2013–14 season at the age of 40 after enjoying a 14-year spell at Juvisy, including over 280 matches played in all competitions, two league titles (2002–03 and 2005–06 seasons), a French Cup title (2004–05), and participated in the

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and the re-branded

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.

International career

As a Caluire SC player, Soubeyrand was called up for

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and made her international debut on 12 April 1997 in a 3–0

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victory over

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. Later that year she took part on the

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, playing all France's three matches in the tournament. She played five matches at the

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, scoring her first goal on 11 April 1998 in a 3–2 defeat to

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. Over the following years she established herself as a capable midfielder, becoming a consistent presence in the French squads, accumulating appearances with the national team and eventually becoming the team's captain. Apart from major tournaments, she played in numerous friendlies and smaller international tournaments, such as qualifications for major tournaments,

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s and

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s. On 28 October 2009, she earned her record 143rd career international cap in a match against

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. The achievement surpassed French men's international defender Lilian Thuram as the nation's most capped football player. After 16 years with the national team, Soubeyrand retired from international football at the age of 39, on 22 July 2013 after a 1–1 draw with

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. She played 198 matches (186 in the starting line up and 12 as incoming substitute) and scored 18 goals. Major tournaments played includes two FIFA Women's World Cups ( 2003 and 2011), five

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).

Coaching career

In 2014, she was appointed

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of

France women's national under-17 football team The France women's national under-17 football team is a youth football team that represents France at UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship and U-17 Women's World Cup tournaments. They were the first non-Asian country to win a U-17 Women's World C ...

.

Career statistics

Club

International

:''Scores and results list France's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Soubeyrand goal.''

Honours

Juvisy *

Division 1 Féminine The Division 1 Féminine, shortened as D1 Féminine or D1F, and currently known as D1 Arkema for sponsorship reasons, is the highest division of women's football in France. Run by the French Football Federation, the league is contested by twel ...

: 2002–03, 2005–06 *

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: 2004–05 France *

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:

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Individual * UNFP Female Player of the Year: 2002–03 Orders *

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: 2011

References

External links

* *
France player profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Soubeyrand, Sandrine 1973 births Living people French women's footballers France women's international footballers Paris FC (women) players FIFA Century Club 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players Footballers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Women's Olympic footballers of France Sportspeople from Ardèche Women's association football midfielders Female association football managers Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite Division 1 Féminine players French football managers Footballers from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Personal life

Club career

Early career

Caluire

Juvisy

International career

Coaching career

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

References

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