Marinette Pichon

Marinette Pichon (* November 26, 1975 in Bar- sur -Aube ) is a French football player.

The club career

The striker has played since the age of six, first at a small club from Brienne- le -Château football, then joined with 16 years of Chalons-en -Champagne to Olympique Saint- Memmie, an association of from under their substantial participation by the mid- 1990s had its most successful period, and was quickly in the first eleven for master player. Here, as soon after the national team they scored goals as on an assembly line; at only 1.63 m tall and 55 kg weight battle came to her in good stead her agility, the ability to respond quickly and a good shot assets. In 2002 she was offered the U.S. Club Philadelphia Chargers to a contract for the woman WUSA, for which she played from now on. After the WUSA had to stop the operation of gambling in the late fall of 2003, she returned briefly to France to Saint- Memmie before their football boots laced again at the end of this season in the United States, this time for the New Jersey Wildcats. Since the season 2004/ 05 it achieved its doors again on home soil: they came for Juvisy FCF in Division 1 Féminine to, with whom she in 2005 the National Cup ( Challenge de France) and 2006 Championship ( Championnat de France de football féminin ) won.

Marinette Pichon has also four times ( 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006) won the title of top scorer of the highest French league; in their year in the U.S. professional league (2003) she scored the most hits. In addition, it was in 2001 awarded the "Oscar " as the French Player of the Year. In 2007, she ended her career. Three years later, Pichon outed their homosexuality.

Stations

  • Association Sportive Briennoise ( until 1992, when young people)
  • Saint- Memmie Olympique (1992-2002)
  • Philadelphia Chargers (2002 - November 2003)
  • Saint- Memmie Olympique (2004)
  • New Jersey Wildcats (Summer 2004)
  • Juvisy FCF (2004-2007)

The national team

Since March 1994 Marinette Pichon stormed the Équipe Tricolore féminin. In it she has brought it to 112 international matches in which you reach 81 goals, which it is also the leading scorer of the French Women's A- team. She participated in all international championship finals in part, for the French women were able to qualify while Pichon player time: the three were European (1997, 2001, 2005 ) and one World Championship ( 2003). A title it has, however it can not win. After the failure of Bleues in qualifying for the 2007 World Cup in China in September 2006, she announced her departure from the national team.

Palmarčs

  • French Champion: 2006
  • French Cup winner: 2005
  • Winning the top scorer: in the French League: 2001, 2002 ( in Saint- Memmie ), 2005, 2006 ( at Juvisy )
  • In the U.S. League: 2003
Bar-sur-Aube Most Valuable Player
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