Sonia Bompastor (born 8 June 1980) is a French

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly ...

manager and former player who currently manages

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of ...

of the French

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. She is the first person to win the UEFA Women's Champions League as both a player and a manager. Bompastor was a

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, preferably on the left side; she also played

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. Bompastor was a two-time winner of the National Union of Professional Footballers (UNFP) Female Player of the Year, and following a move to the

Women's Professional Soccer Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) was the top-level professional women's soccer league in the United States. It began play on March 29, 2009. The league was composed of seven teams for its first two seasons and fielded six teams for the 2011 sea ...

(WPS) league in the

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, earned Player of the Month and All-Star honors. Bompastor began her football career joining US Mer in 1988. In 1992, she joined US Thoury. In the same year, Bompastor earned selection to nationally recognized Clairefontaine academy joining alongside a select group a female players. After her stint at Clairefontaine, she joined Tours EC, now the women's section of professional club Tours FC. In 2000, she joined

club ESOF Vendée La Roche-sur-Yon and performed well enough to earn a move to

Montpellier Montpellier (, , ; oc, Montpelhièr ) is a city in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea. One of the largest urban centres in the region of Occitania, Montpellier is the prefecture of the department of Hérault. In 2018, 290,053 people l ...

. At Montpellier, Bompastor earned domestic and individual honors, which resulted in a move to champions

Olympique Lyonnais Olympique Lyonnais (), commonly referred to as simply Lyon () or OL, is a men and women's French professional football club based in Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. The men play in France's highest football division, Ligue 1. Founded in 1950, th ...

. In 2008, she joined the new

-based women's soccer league,

, after her American playing rights were chosen by

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in the

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.Freedom sticks close to home with draft choices
After helping the Freedom reached the playoffs, Bompastor returned to France where she played for

Paris Saint-Germain Paris Saint-Germain Football Club (), commonly referred to as Paris Saint-Germain, Paris, Paris SG or simply PSG is a professional football club based in Paris, France. They compete in Ligue 1, the top division of French football. As Fr ...

on loan. In 2010, she announced that she would be returned to Lyon for the 2010–11 season and, subsequently, was a part of the team that won the

2010–11 UEFA Women's Champions League The 2010–11 UEFA Women's Champions League was the tenth edition of the European women's championship for football clubs. The final was held in London, England on 26 May 2011 at Craven Cottage. French side Olympique Lyon won the competition aft ...

. Bompastor is also a French international. Prior to playing for the senior team, she played at youth level representing the under-18 team at the 1998 UEFA Women's Under-18 Championship. Bompastor made her senior international debut in February 2000 in a friendly match against

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. From 2004 to 2006, she served as the national team's

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. Bompastor has played in numerous tournaments for her nation beginning with UEFA Women's Euro 2001. In June 2013, Bompastor chose to end her career after the French Women's Cup final. She became the academy director of

Olympique Lyonnais Féminin Olympique Lyonnais Féminin (; commonly referred to as Olympique Lyon, Lyon, or simply OL) is a French women's football club based in Lyon. The club has been the female section of Olympique Lyonnais since 2004. It is the most successful club ...

after retirement. In April 2021, she took over as manager of Lyon's first team.

Club career

Early career

Bompastor was born in

Blois Blois ( ; ) is a commune and the capital city of Loir-et-Cher department, in Centre-Val de Loire, France, on the banks of the lower Loire river between Orléans and Tours. With 45,898 inhabitants by 2019, Blois is the most populated city of the ...

and began playing football at an early age. Of Portuguese origin, both of her parents are from

Póvoa de Varzim Póvoa de Varzim (, ) is a Portuguese city in Northern Portugal and sub-region of Greater Porto, from its city centre. It sits in a sandy coastal plain, a cuspate foreland, halfway between the Minho and Douro rivers. In 2001, there were 63,470 ...

and most of her family still lives in the area. Bompastor told Ma Chaîne Sport that she always goes to Póvoa when she has the opportunity to do so. She was drawn to football through her father, who was a

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. He took her to many of the games he refereed on the weekends and Bompastor quickly developed an attraction towards the game. Bompastor began her football career in 1988 at US Mer, a local club in a neighboring commune, playing with the club's mixed team. In 1992, she joined US Thoury. That same year, Bompastor earned selection to an exclusive female team that was given clearance to train at the Clairefontaine academy by the

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. The academy had quickly become a high-level training facility for male football players and supporters of women's football wanted younger women to be afforded the same benefits from the facilities as young men. Following vocational training at Clairefontaine, Bompastor moved to amateur team Tours EC. She spent four years at the club before joining ESOF Vendée La Roche-sur-Yon of the

in 2000.

Professional career

Bompastor's professional career began with ESOF Vendée La Roche-sur-Yon in 2000. She scored seven goals over her two years with the club before moving to

Montpellier HSC Montpellier Hérault Sport Club (), commonly referred to as Montpellier HSC or simply Montpellier, is a French professional football club based in the city of Montpellier in Occitanie. The original club was founded in 1919, while the current ...

in 2002. At Montpellier, Bompastor blossomed and scored 38 goals over four seasons while helping the club win league titles in 2004 and 2005, as well as the

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(women's version of the

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Olympique Lyonnais was the next destination for Bompastor, for whom she joined in the summer of 2006. She became an important part of the squads that won back-to-back league titles in 2007 and 2008, and of the squad that won the Challenge de France in 2008. This gave her six titles in a span of four years, equal to teammates

Camille Abily Camille Anne Françoise Abily (born 5 December 1984) is a French football manager and former player, best known as a star midfielder for both the French women's national team and for the Lyon club in the Division 1 Féminine. She currently is t ...

and

Élodie Thomis Élodie Ginette Thomis (; born 13 August 1986) is a French former football player who played for French club Olympique Lyon of the Division 1 Féminine. She played either a winger or striker and was described as a player who possesses pace com ...

who were also a part of the same Montpellier squad Bompastor previously had played for. On 24 September 2008, Bompastor was selected to join the new

-based women's soccer league,

, after her American playing rights were chosen by

in the

. Her Olympique Lyonnais teammate

Louisa Necib Louisa Nécib Cadamuro (; born 23 January 1987) is a French former professional footballer who played for the France national team. She spent the majority of her career at Lyon, amassing eighteen titles with the French club over a nine-year spa ...

was also chosen by the Freedom. In the

2009 Women's Professional Soccer season The 2009 Women's Professional Soccer season served as the inaugural season for WPS, the top level professional women's soccer league in the United States. The regular season began on March 29 and ended on August 9, with the postseason being hel ...

, Bompastor appeared in 19 games (all starts, 1709 total minutes) and scored four goals with six assists. Following the conclusion of the season, she was loaned to D1 Féminine side

International career

Bompastor made her international debut for '' the Bleues'' on 26 February 2000 in a match against

. She was a member of the squads that participated in the

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, and

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editions of the UEFA Women's Championship. She also represented France at the

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and the

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. On 27 September 2008, Bompastor picked up her 100th cap in a crucial

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qualifying match against

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, which France won 2–1.

Career statistics

Club

''Statistics accurate as of 18 September 2016''

International

:''(Correct as of 18 September 2016)''BOMPASTOR Sonia
,

, retrieved 19 June 2011

International goals

, - , 1 , , 21 February 2004 , ,

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Managerial Statistics

Honours

Player

Montpellier *

: 2003–04, 2004–05 *

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: 2005–06 Lyon *Division 1 Féminine: 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09,

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, 2011–12, 2012–13 *Coupe de France Féminine: 2007–08, 2011–12, 2012–13 * UEFA Women's Champions League:

, 2011–12 France *

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Individual * UNFP Female Player of the Year: 2003–04, 2007–08 * WPS Player of the Month: May 2009 * WPS All-Star:

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* FIFA Women's World Cup All-Star Team:

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Manager

Lyon *

: 2021–22 *

Trophée des Championnes The Trophée des Championnes is a French women's association football trophy contested as an annual match between the champions of Division 1 Féminine and the winners of the Coupe de France Féminine from previous season. It is the female equ ...

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* UEFA Women's Champions League: 2021–22

Other

Orders *

Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite Chevalier may refer to: Honours Belgium * a rank in the Belgian Order of the Crown * a rank in the Belgian Order of Leopold * a rank in the Belgian Order of Leopold II * a title in the Belgian nobility France * a rank in the French Legion d'h ...

: 2014

References

External links

* * *
FFF player profile

Paris Saint-Germain player profile
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bompastor, Sonia 1980 births Living people French expatriate sportspeople in the United States French women's footballers French people of Portuguese descent Washington Freedom players Paris Saint-Germain Féminine players France women's youth international footballers France women's international footballers Olympique Lyonnais Féminin players Sportspeople from Blois CNFE Clairefontaine players Montpellier HSC (women) players Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States FIFA Century Club 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players Footballers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers of France Women's association football midfielders Division 1 Féminine players Olympique Lyonnais Féminin managers Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite Women's Professional Soccer players Footballers from Centre-Val de Loire French expatriate women's footballers