Category: Female Athletes, Olympic Athletes, Soccer
Highlights: Julie Foudy played for the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team from 1987-2004, winning two FIFA World Cups and two Olympic gold medals. She currently works as a broadcaster for ESPN.
Travels From: California
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Julie Foudy is a former professional and international soccer player who notably competed on the United States Women’s National Team from 1987-2004. From 1991-2000, Foudy served as co-captain for the United States and took over as captain in 2001, serving through 2004. A 2007 inductee into the National Soccer Hall of Fame along with Mia Hamm, Foudy played in a total of 274 games for the United States, scoring 45 goals.
She played in four FIFA Women’s World Cup tournaments and helped lead the team to victory 1991 and 1999. Similarly, Foudy played in three Summer Olympics, helping the American team to gold medals at the 1996 Atlanta games and again at the 2004 Olympics held in Athens, Greece. In 2000, the U.S. and Foudy earned a silver medal at the competition held in Sydney, Australia. In addition to her international play, Foudy competed professionally for the Sacramento Storm (1993, 1995-1998) and San Diego Spirit (2001-2003). She also played a season overseas in Sweden for Tyreso FF in 1994.
An advocate for workers and women’s rights, in 1997 Foudy was the first female to be awarded the FIFA Fair Play Award. Foudy went on to serve as president of the Women’s Sports Foundation and, in 2006, started an organization dedicated to increasing leadership abilities in young women called the Julie Foudy Sports Leadership Academy. In 2014, she and Brandi Chastain traveled to Brazil and hosted soccer clinics for girls. Foudy is currently a soccer broadcast analyst and can be seen on ESPN as the networks’ lead analyst during women’s soccer games. She is author of the book “Choose to Matter: Being Courageously and Fabulously YOU”.
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