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Football At The 2007 Pan American Games – Women's Tournament
The women's association football tournament at the 2007 Pan American Games took place from 12 to 26 July 2007. by Marcelo Leme de Arruda on the RSSSF Teams The number of teams was expanded to 10 teams for this edition, with no age limit. The participants were: * ** ** ** ** ** * ** ** ** ** **Preliminary round Group A ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----Group B ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- --- ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio De Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the capital of the Rio de Janeiro (state), state of Rio de Janeiro. It is the List of cities in Brazil by population, second-most-populous city in Brazil (after São Paulo) and the Largest cities in the Americas, sixth-most-populous city in the Americas. Founded in 1565 by the Portuguese people, Portuguese, the city was initially the seat of the Captaincy of Rio de Janeiro, a domain of the Portuguese Empire. In 1763, it became the capital of the State of Brazil, a List of states of the Portuguese Empire, state of the Portuguese Empire. In 1808, when the Transfer of the Portuguese Court to Brazil, Portuguese Royal Court moved to Brazil, Rio de Janeiro became the seat of the court of Queen Maria I of Portugal. She subsequently, under the leadership of her son the prince regent John VI of Portugal, raised Brazil to the dignity of a kingdom, within the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves, United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and Algar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Sinclair
Christine Margaret Sinclair (born June 12, 1983) is a retired Canadian professional Association football, soccer player who most recently played as a Forward (association football), forward for the Portland Thorns FC, Portland Thorns of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and, from 2000 until her retirement from international soccer in 2023, was a member of the Canada women's national soccer team, Canadian national team. An Olympic gold medallist, two-time Olympic bronze medallist, CONCACAF champion, and 14-time winner of the Canadian Players of the Year, Canada Soccer Player of the Year award, Sinclair is officially the world's all-time leader for List of international goals scored by Christine Sinclair, international goals scored for List of top international men's association football goal scorers by country, men or List of women's footballers with 100 or more international goals, women with 190 goals, and is one of the most-Cap (sport), capped international soccer pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhian Wilkinson
Rhian Emilie Wilkinson (born May 12, 1982) is a Canadian professional soccer coach and former player, who currently coaches the Wales women's national team. She was previously the head coach of Portland Thorns of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), where she led the team to the 2022 NWSL Championship. As a player, Wilkinson made over 180 appearances for the Canadian national team and won Olympic bronze medals in 2012 and 2016. She played as a forward and a midfielder at the club level, but was primarily an attacking right fullback for the national team. Early life Wilkinson was born in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, to British parents Keith Wilkinson and Shan Evans. Her Danish-born English father was a player with (3 caps in the 1970s) and director of the Canada national rugby union team. Her mother, Shan Evans, was born in Wales. She has an older brother, David, and a twin sister named Sara. In 1990, she relocated to Wales for one year, where she attended Bont Faen Primary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristina Kiss
Kristina Kiss (born February 13, 1981) is a Canadian former soccer midfielder, who won medals twice with the Canada national team at the Pan American Games: 2003 and 2007. Career On March 12, 2000 at the Algarve Cup, 19 year old Kristina made her debut for Canada's Senior Women's Team vs powerhouse China. This is where she began her National Team journey under newly appointed coach Even Pellerud. Always playing the ball with precision Kristina scored in her fifth game with Canada on May 31, 2000 in a 2:1 win over New Zealand helping the team finish fourth at the 2000 CONCACAF Gold Cup. Later the team and Kristina would have continued success by finishing; 2nd at both the 2002 CONCACAF Gold Cup, 2nd at the XIV Pan American Games (2003) in Santo Domingo where Kristina scored Canada's tying goal in a 2–1 loss to Brazil in the final. She also finished; 4th with Canada at the FIFA Women's World Cup USA in 2003, 2nd with Canada at the 2006 CONCACAF Gold Cup – lost 2:1 to the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venicia Reid
Venicia Reid (born 28 October 1987) is a Jamaican footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ... who plays as midfielder or a forward. She was a member of the Jamaica women's national team. International goals ''Scores and results list Jamaica's goal tally first'' External links * 1987 births Living people Jamaican women's footballers 21st-century Jamaican sportswomen Footballers from Kingston, Jamaica Women's association football midfielders Women's association football forwards Jamaica women's international footballers Footballers at the 2007 Pan American Games Pan American Games competitors for Jamaica Navarro Bulldogs women's soccer players South Florida Bulls women's soccer players Jamaican expatriate women's footballers Jamaican expatria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pretinha
Delma Gonçalves (born 19 May 1975), commonly known as Pretinha,In a June 199with Grant Wahl, Pretinha said her nickname means "little black girl" and that the reference to skin color is not considered problematic in Brazil. is a Brazilian professional Association football, soccer Coach (sports), coach and former Forward (association football), forward. A longtime member of the Brazil women's national football team, Brazil national team, for whom she debuted in 1991, she played for clubs in Brazil, the United States and Japan before moving to Icheon Daekyo WFC, Icheon Daekyo of South Korea's WK-League in 2009. With the Brazilian national team, Pretinha participated in four FIFA Women's World Cup, World Cups; in 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup, China (1991), 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup, Sweden (1995), 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup, United States (1999), and 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup, China (2007). She has also played in four Football at the Summer Olympics#Women's tournament, Olympic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kara Lang
Kara Elise Lang Romero (born 22 October 1986) is a former Canadian football (soccer), soccer player and current sports analyst, who represented her country in two FIFA Women's World Cup, FIFA World Cups and the Football at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament, Olympic Games, and played club soccer for Vancouver Whitecaps Women. She is the youngest woman to be named to Canada National Women's Team, making her National Team debut on 1 March 2002 at the Algarve Cup in Portugal at age 15. Lang retired on 5 January 2011 at the age of 24 due to recurring knee and ACL injuries. Lang began a comeback in 2013, with her ambition being to help Canada in the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, but suffered a third ACL injury in February 2014, effectively ending her comeback. She now has two sons and a daughter with professional baseball player Ricky Romero. She was inducted into the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame as a player in November 2015. Personal life As of 2015, Lang is married to fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Neil
Andrea Neil (born October 26, 1971, in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a pioneer of women's soccer in Canada. Neil retired from the game after representing Canada more than any other Canadian player in history. With a career spanning 18 years she went on to play for her country 132 times, and was the first Canadian to participate in four FIFA Women's World Cups as a player (1995, 1999, 2003, 2007), including Canada's best ever finish at a FIFA World Cup, when the Canadian women's national team finished fourth in 2003. Early career Neil started her athletic career with badminton at the junior national level. After almost losing her leg to gangrene due to a motorcycle accident in the Dominican Republic, Neil decided to focus her career on soccer. Neil attended the University of British Columbia where she earned a degree in human kinetics. Canada and UBC In 1991, at 19, she made her international debut against Jamaica in Haiti. In 1993 she was named UBC's female athlete of the y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juliana Castro (footballer)
Juliana Castro Irizábal (born 28 June 1991) is a Uruguayan footballer who plays as a forward for Club Nacional de Football. She has been a member of the Uruguay women's national team. College career Castro attended the Missouri Valley College in the United States. Club career Castro played in Uruguay for Inau, River Plate, Sportivo Artigas de Sauce, Rampla Juniors and Nacional. International career Castro played for Uruguay at senior level in two Copa América Femenina editions (2006 and 2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...). Personal life Castro's older brother, Club Nacional de Football, Gonzalo Castro, is also a professional Association football, footballer who plays for Club Nacional de Football as a Midfielder#Winger, winger. References 1991 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayra Padrón
Mayra or Mäyrä is a given name. Notable people with the name include: *Mayra Andrade (born 1985), Cape Verdean singer who lives and records in Paris, France *Mayra Conde (born 1969), Guatemalan personal trainer and mixed martial artist *Mayra Flores (born 1986), American politician *Mayra Gómez Kemp (born 1948), movie star *Mayra García (born 1972), Mexican beach volleyball player *Mayra Gil (born 2003), Mexican basketball player *Mayra González (born 1968), Cuban rower *Mayra Huerta, (born 1970), Mexican beach volleyball player *Mayra Leiva (born 1996), Argentine basketball player *Mayra Matos (born 1988), Puerto Rican beauty pageant contestant *Mayra Mendoza (born 1983), Argentine politician who served as National Deputy from 2011 to 2019 *Mayra Montero (born 1952), Cuban-Puerto Rican writer *Mayra Ramírez (born 1999), Colombian footballer * Mayra Rosales (born 1980), was one of the heaviest living people in the world *Mayra Santos-Febres (born 1966), Puerto Rican professor o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marta (footballer)
Marta Vieira da Silva (; born 19 February 1986), known mononymously as Marta, is a Brazilian professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Forward (association football), forward for National Women's Soccer League club Orlando Pride. Regarded by many as the greatest female footballer of all time, she has been named FIFA World Player of the Year six times, five of them being consecutive (from 2006 through 2010) and the latest award coming in 2018. Marta holds the record for being Brazilian Football Confederation, Brazil's top goalscorer with 119 goals. With 17 goals, Marta also holds the record for most goals scored in any World Cup, women’s or men's. Moreover, she was the first footballer of any gender to score at five different World Cups, a feat matched by Christine Sinclair in 2019 and Cristiano Ronaldo in 2022, and also the first footballer, female or male, to score at five consecutive Olympic Games. She was a member of the Brazilian national teams that won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kátia Cilene Teixeira
Katia is a feminine given name. "''Katia''" may also refer to: *Katia, Benin, a village * ''Katia'' (film), a 1938 French drama starring Danielle Darrieux *Battle of Katia, a World War I battle *Hurricane Katia (2011) *Kátia (footballer) Katia is a feminine given name. "''Katia''" may also refer to: *Katia, Benin Katia is a village in the commune of Bassila in the Donga Department of western Benin. External linksSatellite map at Maplandia Populated places in the Donga Depar ..., Kátia Cilene Teixeira da Silva, Brazilian footballer See also * Catia (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
