Leslie Osborne

Osborne in the jersey of the Boston Breakers (2010)

Leslie Marie Osborne ( born May 27, 1983 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a former American football player who was most recently in the 2013 season with the Chicago Red Stars in the National Women's Soccer League under contract.

Career

Association

Before or after their studies at Santa Clara University Osborne played for the Chicago Cobras and second-rate team California Storm in the W-League or WPSL. Your first professional contract she signed for the 2009 season, which she completed at FC Gold Pride in the WPS. The following two years Osborne played for the WPS franchise of the Boston Breakers, who remained true even after the dissolution of the WPS and for which they ran aground in the WPSL Elite in 2012.

Early 2013, Osborne joined the newly founded NWSL franchise of Red Stars on. Your league debut on April 14, 2013 against the Seattle Reign FC, ​​their only goal in the NWSL she achieved on June 19 against Western New York Flash. A few weeks before the season starts in 2014 she announced her retirement from professional sport.

National

On 30 January 2004 Osborne made ​​her international debut for the U.S. national team. At the 2007 World Championships she won the bronze medal with the U.S..

As coach

Osborne worked from 2009 to 2012 as a co- coach of the Santa Clara Broncos Women Soccer team.