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Cynthia Marie Parlow ( born May 8, 1978 in Memphis, Tennessee) is a former American football player and current - trainer. It was with the selection of their home twice Olympic Champion (1996 and 2004 ) and one World Champion (1999), they also won at the Olympics ( 2000), one silver and the World Championship Tournament (2003) a bronze medal. Parlow played both as a striker and as an attacking midfielder.

1994 Parlow was - without the use - the squad of U-16 Selection of the USA, began her career but only really in 1995 when their college days began at the NCAA women's soccer record champions, the Tar Heels of the University of North Carolina. It was voted the best rookie of the U.S. college women's football and first call at the end of the year in the cadre of U.S. Selection of the ladies, for they came at age 17 on January 14, 1996 not only for the first use, but also their was able to achieve the first two international goal and was thus able to establish right off the bat as a supplement player in the team. Parlow was nominated for the Olympic team in 1996, she came twice in the tournament rather than short, substitute used.

1996-1998 was a key player in the Tar Heels lead them respectively to the U.S. college championship Parlow and was thereby won several awards, including twice with the Hermann Trophy as the best football player of U.S. colleges, was at this time also master player of the U.S. Selection; it was then in 1999 at the World Championships and 2000 in the Olympic football tournament in every game starter.

In 2001, she became a professional player at Atlanta Beat in the newly formed WUSA, where it remained in 2003 one of the key players to the demise of the League twice and reach the final of the championship, though could not win.

After the second Olympic gold medal in 2004, she finished her career in 2006 for health reasons; overall they could achieve 75 goals for the U.S. selection in 158 games. With 23 years and 56 days, she was the youngest U.S. player who made ​​her 100th international game.

Parlow was introduced in December 2012 as the first coach of the newly formed NWSL franchises Portland Thorns FC. In August 2013 she and her crew won the NWSL - final against Western New York Flash and was subsequently nominated in October 2013 for the election of the world coach of the year. For personal reasons, she joined in December surprising as coach of Thorns back as her successor was presented Paul Riley.