Heather Mitts

Heather Blaine Mitts Feeley ( born June 9, 1978 as Heather Blaine Mitts in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a former American football player.

Life and career

During her high school years she played for the team of St. Ursula Academy. With an athletic scholarship, she studied at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida and played from 1996 to 1999 for the Florida Gators soccer team in the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA). As part of the defensive line she helped the Gators in 1998 to win the first NCAA Women's Soccer Championship. After college graduation in 2000, she played for Tampa Bay Extreme in the W-League they währernd to the new Women 's United Soccer Association league waited. After starting the WUSA was drafted for Philadelphia Charge and played until the end of the WUSA 51 times for Philadelphia. 2005 moved to Central Florida Krush Mitts in the W-League, but they only played four times. With the launch of the new Women's Professional Soccer season in 2009, she moved to the Boston Breakers. In October 2009 he moved to the Philadelphia Independence, for which they played in the 2010 season and reached the playoff final against FC Gold Pride. For the 2011 season, she moved to Atlanta Beat.

In 1999, she won the U -21 Nordic Cup. Their first of 137 A- internationals she made on 24 February 1999 in a 3-1 against Finland. It remained the only international game for two years and in the following three years she only came to each one (2001 and 2002 ) or two (2003) brief appearances. It was not until 2004, she became a regular player and came in 28 games for use. Their first international goal was the game-winning 1-0 on 3 July 2004 against Canada. Her second and final international goal was decisive game: In injury time they scored on 25 September 2004, the 4-3 victory over Iceland.

In 2004, she was part of the victorious U.S. team at the Algarve Cup and also in the squad for the Olympic Games for the second time won gold for the U.S. in Athens. In 2005, she was with the U.S. team win the Algarve Cup and came to eight inserts in nine internationals.

The year 2007 began for them with the new winning the Algarve Cup. But a torn ACL in the game against Canada in May prevented their first World Cup appearance, so that they again only in April 2008 and was used until the end of 2009 mitmachte all internationals.

On 11 March 2009, she contested the final of the Algarve Cup against Sweden ( 1-1 aet 3:4 iE ) her 100th international game.

In 2010 she came despite some minor injuries in 10 games for use, inter alia, at the Algarve Cup and 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, and the resulting necessary playoff games against Italy.

In 2011 she won not one of the squad of the Algarve Cup, but was nominated for the World Cup 2011 in Germany. As the only field player of the U.S. team and only World Cup participant with more than 100 international matches, but it was no use. On September 22, 2011, she came in a friendly against Canada back into use.

In 2012 she was in the squad for the Olympic football tournament in London, but was only used in the match against Colombia. Your last and 137 use for the national team they had on December 15, 2012 in a 4-1 in Boca Raton against China.

For the 2013 season, she received the newly formed National Women 's Soccer League, the highest league in American professional women's football into a contract for the Boston Breakers. On March 13, even before the season opener, but she gave her resignation from active competition known.

Private

In June 2002, she was featured on the front page of the Philadelphia Magazine as one of the "Sexiest Singles of the City". Was published in 2004 by her as the first female soccer player, a 5 -page photo spread in FHM. In 2005, she was seen in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue with her fiance AJ Feeley, quarterback of the St. Louis Rams, whom she married on 13 February 2010. Since March 2013, it belongs to the commentator and moderating team Philadelphia Union TV.

Achievements

  • NCAA champion in 1998
  • Nordic Cup winner 1999
  • Olympic champion in 2004, 2008, 2012
  • Algarve Cup winner 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010

Awards

  • Sexiest player in the WUSA on Playboy.com in 2001
  • ESPN.com ' s "Sexiest Female Athlete " in 2004
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