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2011 FIFA Women's World Cup Group A
Group A of the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup consisted of the teams from Germany women's national football team, Germany, Canada women's national soccer team, Canada, Nigeria women's national football team, Nigeria and France women's national football team, France. The games were played on 26 June, 30 June and 5 July 2011. The top two teams advanced to the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup knockout stage, knockout stage. Standings Matches Nigeria vs France Germany vs Canada Canada vs France Germany vs Nigeria France vs Germany Canada vs Nigeria At 22:13 CEST, in the 72nd minute, the match was interrupted due to a power outage of the stadium's floodlights. The match resumed at 22:24 CEST. Though the elapsed time was initially counted in the match report, FIFA later amended the minutes of the match events to exclude the stoppage of play caused by the power outage. References External linksGroup A on fifa.com {{DEFAULTSORT:World Cup 2011 FIF ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 FIFA Women's World Cup
The 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup was the sixth FIFA Women's World Cup competition, the world championship for women's national association football teams. It was held from 26 June to 17 July 2011 in Germany, which won the right to host the event in October 2007. Japan won the final against the United States on a penalty shoot-out following a 2–2 draw after extra time and became the first Asian team to win a senior FIFA World Cup. The matches were played in nine stadiums in nine host cities around the country, with the final played at the Commerzbank Arena in Frankfurt. Sixteen teams were selected for participation via a worldwide qualification tournament that began in 2009. In the first round of the tournament finals, the teams competed in round-robin groups of four teams for points, with the top two teams in each group proceeding. These eight teams advanced to the knockout stage, where two rounds of play decided which teams would participate in the final. Host selection ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glory Iroka
Glory Iroka (born 3 January 1990) is a Nigerian international footballer who plays as a midfielder for Nigerian Women's Championship club Rivers Angels and the Nigeria women's national football team. International career She was part of the Nigeria national team in the African Women's Championship of 2012 and 2014, winning the latter. Honours International ; Nigeria * African Women's Championship (2): 2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ... References External links * * 1990 births Living people Nigeria women's international footballers Women's association football midfielders 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players Nigerian women's footballers Rivers Angels F.C. players Place of birth missing (living people) {{Nigeria-women-footy-bio- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Georges
Laura Stéphanie Georges (born 20 August 1984) is a French retired footballer who is the Secretary General of the French Football Federation. She last played for German club Bayern Munich of the Bundesliga, and served as the first-choice captain of her club and played primarily as a central defender, but was also used as a defensive midfielder. Georges was also a France women's international having made her senior international debut in September 2001. She represented her nation at seven major international tournaments; the 2003, 2011 and 2015 editions of the FIFA Women's World Cup and the 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017 editions of the UEFA Women's Championship. Club career Early career Georges began her football career playing for her hometown club Paris Saint-Germain at the age of 12. She spent six years in the club's youth academy before being accepted to CNFE Clairefontaine, the women's section of the Clairefontaine academy. Georges returned to Paris Saint-Germain after a year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendie Renard
Wendie Thérèse Renard (born 20 July 1990) is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back and captains both Division 1 Féminine club Lyon and the France national team. Renard is one of the most decorated players in modern women's club football. She has won a record 14 French league titles and eight European Cups. In 2019, the ''New York Times'' described her as an "institution" at Lyon, the most successful club in European women's football. Early life Renard was born in Martinique, a French island in the Lesser Antilles. She is the youngest of four daughters. Her father died of lung cancer when she was eight years old. Prior to moving to the mainland, Renard played for Essor-Préchotain on her home island. When she was 15, Renard flew to mainland France for a trial at Clairefontaine but was not accepted into the national training program. She subsequently took the train to Lyon and, after a more successful trial, landed a spot with Olympique Lyonnais. She l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bérangère Sapowicz
Bérangère Sapowicz (born 6 February 1983 in Verneuil-sur-Avre) is a former French football player who played long time for French club Paris Saint-Germain of the Division 1 Féminine. Sapowicz plays as a goalkeeper and is a member of the France women's national football team having made her debut in 2003. That same year, she was selected to participate in 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup, held in the United States. Since 2018 she is goalkeeper coach of a men's team in the fifth league, AS Fabrègues. Club career Early career Sapowicz initially trained in gymnastics before beginning a career in football. She began her career playing for nearby club ''Association Sportive Bretolienne''. She spent 12 years at the club before joining the women's section of city club Évreux AC (now Évreux FC). While at Évreux, she became a youth international and eventually was selected to attend CNFE Clairefontaine, the women's section of the Clairefontaine academy. Paris Saint-Germain In 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uche Eucharia
Ngozi Eucharia Uche (born 18 June 1973 in Mbaise, Imo State, Nigeria) is a former football player and a former head coach of the Nigeria women's national football team. Uche grew up in Owerri, Nigeria. Early life The first of five children, she was brought up in a middle class environment. She attended the Egbu Girls Secondary School Owerri before heading to Delta State University. While in secondary school, Uche began playing soccer. She later played for the national team Super Falcons, and became their first female coach. In 2010, she became the first woman coach to win an African Women's Championship title. She was sacked in October 2011 after Nigeria failed to qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympics. Controversy Uche was cautioned by FIFA for remarks she made during the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, in which she called homosexuality a "dirty issue" and "spiritually wrong". Honours ; Nigeria Coach * African Women's Championship Winner (1): 2010 File:2010 Events Collage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uchechi Sunday
Uchechi Lopez Sunday (born 9 September 1994) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Nojima Stella Kanagawa Sagamihara in the WE League. The -tall athlete wears number 28. She is also member of the Nigeria women's national football team, nicknamed the ''Super Falcons''. Early years Uchechi Sunday was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria on 9 September 1994 as the youngest of seven sisters. Career Club Sunday began her football career in 2004 with Rivers Angels F.C. in Nigeria. From 2009, she played in their professional team in the Nigerian Women's Premier League. On 14 April 2011, she signed with the Swiss club FC Neunkirch in Schaffhausen. She capped eight times in the Nationalliga B and scored 18 goals. In August the same year following the end of the 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup at Germany, she returned to her former club in Nigeria. At the beginning of 2015, Sunday joined the Belarusian team FC Minsk. She scored three goals in the first match wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Michael
Sarah Michael (born 22 July 1990) is a Nigerian footballer who plays for Elitettan Elitettan ( en, The Elite First) is the second highest division of Swedish women's football. Contested by 14 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with Damallsvenskan The Damallsvenskan, Swedish for ''ladies all-Swedish' ... club Lidköpings. who plays as a striker. She is a member of the Nigerian national team, and took part in the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2011 World Cup. in FIFA's website References External links * * * 1990 births ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josephine Chukwunonye
Josephine Chiwendu Chukwunonye (born 19 March 1992) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Swedish Damallsvenskan club Kungsbacka DFF and the Nigeria women's national team. She previously played for Nigerian domestic side Rivers Angels for seven years, and for Washington Spirit in the National Women's Soccer League. Club career After seven years playing for Rivers Angels in the Nigerian Women's Championship, in June 2015 it was announced Chukwunonye was joining the National Women's Soccer League side Washington Spirit. She was signed at the same time as Australian international Hayley Raso, with the announcement coming the day before the Nigeria women's national football team played Australia in the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup. Chukwunonye said at the time, "I am excited to join the Washington Spirit family; it's a thing of joy and a dream come true for me, I love playing with great players like Crystal Dunn, who I faced in the U20 World Cup in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desire Oparanozie
Ugochi Desire Oparanozie (born 17 December 1993) is a Nigerian footballer who plays as a forward in the Chinese Women's Super League for Wuhan Jianghan University and the Nigerian national team. Club career Oparanozie started her career at Bayelsa Queens in the Nigerian Women's Championship and moved to Delta Queens in 2010. She then spent 2 months on loan at Düvenciler Lisesispor in the Turkish Women's First Football League in 2011, before returning to Delta Queens. In 2012, she joined Rossiyanka from the Russian Women's Football Championship, with them she played four matches at the 2012–13 UEFA Women's Champions League, scoring one goal. Oparanozie joined Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg for the 2013–14 season signing a two-year contract. In the first half of the season, she only appeared in one game, and mostly played for Wolfsburg's second team. In the winter, after half a season, she left Wolfsburg. On 21 February 2014, Oparanozie transferred to Ataşehir Beled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ebere Orji
Ebere Orji (born 23 December 1992) is a Nigerian international footballer who currently plays for Sundsvall DFF in the Swedish Elitettan. She has previously played for multiple clubs in Nigeria, Sweden and Hungary but most notably for Ferencváros in the Hungarian Női NB I and Rivers Angels in her home country in the Nigeria Women Premier League. She has also represented Nigeria at international level as part of the team at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup finals, as well as the Under 20 and Under 17 World Cup. Club career With Rivers Angels, she once scored a hat-trick against COD United Ladies in a 6–1 win on their way to eventually winning the Federation Cup in 2014. In 2015 with Ferencváros, she won both the Hungarian championship ( Női NB I) and the Hungarian Cup. In the 2016–17 season, Orji ended as top goalscorer in the Női NB I with 27 goals. In 2019 Orji won the Elitettan title with Umeå IK, scoring 11 goals in 26 league games. International career A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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