Heather O'Reilly
O'Reilly before the game against Canada 17 September 2011
Heather Ann O'Reilly ( born January 2, 1985 in New Brunswick, New Jersey) is an American soccer player. She plays for the Boston Breakers and for the U.S. national team.
Life and career
During her high school time in East Brunswick, she played for her high school team, scoring 143 goals in four years. Additionally, she also starred in the high school basketball team. After enrolling at the University of North Carolina, she played three years for the North Carolina Tar Heels women's soccer and since 2004 for the New Jersey Wildcats in the W- League, with whom she won the 2005 title.
In 2002, she was 17 years old the victorious U.S. team at the U- 19 World Cup, where they will pay the preparatory work for the golden goal in the final by Lindsey Tarpley. In 2005 she won the U -21 Nordic Cup.
Their first date of 173 A- internationals she made on 1 March 2002 in a 1-1 draw against Sweden at the Algarve Cup. The first international was 2-0 on 6 October 2006 in a 4-0 victory against Italy. In the 5-0 win against Ireland on 14 June 2003, she suffered a broken leg when she scored the 1-0 in the second game minute and clashed with the Irish goalkeeper. Due to this injury she could not attend the 2003 World Cup in the United States. In 2004, she was part of the squad for the Olympic Games and in the semifinal against Germany she succeeded with the 2:1 of a main gates in U.S. history. In 2-1 N.V. won the final against Brazil, they came on at the start of extra time.
In 2005, she was part of the victorious U.S. team at the Algarve Cup, where they first stood in a game since her broken leg back in the starting lineup. In the final against Germany, however, it was not loaded until after 83 minutes. At the Algarve Cup in 2006, she played in the 5-0 against Denmark for the first time over 90 minutes, the finale but was lost in a penalty shoot-out against Germany.
The year 2007 began for them with the new winning the Algarve Cup. In the 2007 World Cup, they came in all six games for use, taking third place achieved in the first game the goal for a 2-2 draw against North Korea in the final game and the fourth goal in a 4-1 win against Norway.
In 2008, she scored ten goals and also bar with ten goals the preliminary work, which had managed only five players in front of her. First, she was able to repeat winning the Algarve Cup and achieve two goals. The victorious concluded Olympics in Beijing she in the game against New Zealand scored the fastest goal of the Olympic Games when she met 40 seconds after kick-off to 1:0.
In 2009 she won with Sky Blue FC the first time played season of Women's Professional Soccer.
In 2010 she presented Carla Overbeck's U.S. record of 62 games in a row. In the final of the Algarve Cup they made the 3-2 win against Germany the groundwork to 1:0 by Abby Wambach. In the CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup in 2010, where the U.S. team only surprising third place and automatic qualification for the 2011 World Cup missed, they came in all five games for use, as in the subsequently necessary playoff games against Italy.
In 2011 she won the Algarve Cup for the fifth time, with her in 3:2 gained final goal succeeded to 2-2 against Iceland. It belongs to the USA squad for the World Cup 2011 in Germany. In the second World Cup game she shot in a 3-0 win against Colombia in the 12th minute 1-0. The gate was included in the selection for the " Goal of the Tournament ". In the last game against Sweden, it was not used, after the defeat of the team against the Swedes, the United States met in the quarterfinals to Brazil, which the U.S. won 5-3 on penalties after a 2-2 nV. In the penalty shoot it no longer was used because it had been replaced in the 108th minute. Even in a 3-1 victory in the semi-final against France and the Final against Japan, she stood in the starting lineup. Their most striking scene they had in the 66th minute when she hit a cross to Abby Wambach, whose header could draw but the Japanese goalkeeper over the bar. When 1:3 lost a penalty shoot it was not used.
On September 17, 2011, she made her 150th international match in 48th player.
O'Reilly was in the squad for the Olympic football tournament in London and was used in four of six games. In the final against Japan on 9 August 2012, she was not used and thus won without using the final third gold medal.
On March 8, 2013, it was in the second half of the match a substitute against China at the Algarve Cup in 2013. She was thus the only U.S. player in this game, with more than 100 international matches, while five players were not used with 100 or more caps.
In the 2013 season she played in the newly established National Women 's Soccer League, the highest American professional league in women's soccer for the Boston Breakers.
On March 12, 2014, it made as part of the Algarve Cup her 200th international game as they came off the bench in the match for 7th place against North Korea for the second half and scored in the 88th minute her 40th international goal.
Private
In fall 2011, she married the former North Carolina lacrosse player Dave Werry.
Achievements
- U-19 World Cup 2002
- W-League Winner 2005
- Olympic champion in 2004, 2008, 2012
- Vice World Champion 2011
- World bronze medalist in 2007
- Algarve Cup winner in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013
- Women's Professional Soccer Winner 2009
Awards
- " U.S. Soccer 's Young Female Athlete of the Year" 2004