Sonia Bompastor
Sonia Bompastor
Sonia Bompastor ( born June 8, 1980 in Blois ) is a French former football player. The beginning mostly as a defensive midfielder, and later acting in an offensive full-back role daughter of a Portuguese immigrant family wore the colors of Olympique Lyon last; besides, she was twelve years Master player in the women's national. After a total of eight national championships, four French and two European Cup victories in 2013, she finished her playing career.
Club career
Bompastor joined as an eight- year-old Union Sportive in to her former residence Mer, where she played first in the boys' team. The fact that they often from opposing side phrases such as " The U.S. Mer has set up a girl, because we have an easy " got to hear, she felt in retrospect to be positive, because the " contributed to [ has ], my fighting spirit to increase ." When she was too old to still compete in a mixed team are allowed - in France, this is up to 12 years permitted -, she moved to the neighboring U.S. Thoury that had a women's team. There it was used in its first year in the league womanhood, which took in the Division d' Honneur, the third division. Five years later (1997) Sonia Bompastor joined the EC Tours. As of 1998, she found in the national women's football training center in Clairefontaine recording where they parallel to their professional training - has " from Monday to Friday trained" and played on the weekend for their club - she has a degree in commerce. In Clairefontaine, the foundations for their successful career were his own words, according to laid: " hardness and stamina, tactical understanding, as well as maintenance of the efficiency and methods of regeneration ." After they had moved from Tours to La Roche ESOF, she made her debut in 2000 in the French top.
First titles won only 1.62 m wide, a little over 50 -kg Sonia Bompastor with the Montpellier HSC, which she had joined in 2002. There she stood in 2004 and 2005 in Master and in 2006 in the Cup winning team. She then moved to Olympique Lyon, where in 2008 they again won the National Cup in 2007 and 2008 championships and more. She was also honored in 2008 for the second time after 2004 as the best player in the French league. In March 2009 she moved for six months in the U.S. professional league Women's Professional Soccer to Washington Freedom, and then returned to France, where she played just one season for Paris Saint- Germain. This is followed by another half- year contract in Washington followed. In her two engagements in the U.S. soccer she has learned especially appreciate the practiced there attacking approach, but also the absolute professionalism and not least the better earning opportunities; also they have devised in Washington her look "outside the box of football" addition. Bompastor local calls her teammate Abby Wambach as the " epitome of a professional athlete at the highest level ." She herself was appointed to the All- Star team of the Women's League.
After her second stay in the USA, she joined in 2010 Olympique Lyon and gathered there annually more titles in Division 1 Féminine, the Coupe de France and also at the international level: 2011 and 2012 she took each as Olympiques captain the trophy UEFA Champions League against. Your club coach Patrice Lair characterized Lyon 2012 Bompastors role on and off the pitch with the words: " Because of their professionalism, their commitment and their unconditional will to win, they would also be in every men's team the leader ".
In the national team
Her debut in the French national team celebrated Sonia Bompastor, 19 years old, on 26 February 2000 in a match against Scotland. As a result, she became the master player of the Bleues; it was her role in the rise of French women in the European and later undisputed best in the world, both under the national coach Élisabeth Loisel and under their successors Bruno Bini. She participated in three European Championships (2001 in Germany, 2005 in England and 2009 in Finland) and at two World Cup finals (2003 in the United States and 2011 in Germany ) part. They also belonged to the French Olympic squad in 2012 in London. Overall, they brought it in these continental tournaments on 24 appearances, all in the starting lineup, and lacking only in a single game in France: in 2011 had coach Bini left the pre-loaded with a yellow card Bompastor in their final group game against hosts Germany in the bank, not in the to forego the quarterfinals on it.
My 100th had completed in a European Championship qualifier against Iceland 27 September 2008 Bompastor. August 9, 2012 at the Olympic tournament they played their 156th and last fight - the lost match against Canada in the bronze medal - for the Bleues, where she has also recorded 19 Torerfolge in this county. Among them was a dozen games against select teams from German-speaking countries, in six 2001-2012 against Switzerland, four from Germany ( between 2003 and 2009 ) and two against Austria in 2005 and 2006. Their 156 "caps" she has behind Sandrine Soubeyrand recorded the second highest number of matches of all French internationals - and even more than France's international record for the men, Lilian Thuram. ( As of July 1st 2013) At the end of the World Cup 2011, FIFA Sonia Bompastor was included in the 12- selection list for choosing the best player of the tournament. That same year she also for their ten players nominated by the World Association comprehensive pre-selection for the award for Player of the Year 2011 ( Ballon d' Or).
Until recently, Sonia Bompastor had, although considered by coach Bini in any game of the season 2012/13 more, still hoped, due to their performances at club level to find inclusion in the European Championship squad in 2013, the French women. When this failed to materialize - according to her own words, a " brutal end " - she decided in June 2013 to put a line under her career. What their exclusion are concerned since the 2012 Olympics, Bompastor suspected that it had against the coach used with respect to both, in their view, disappointing fourth places in 2011 and 2012 to open words. She had Bini a "too little depth analysis of the causes for the disappointing fourth place in London" accused his training methods ( " hardly ever shooting practice " ) and criticized his personnel decisions in the subsequent period.
Life after time as a player
Sonia Bompastor that intends to acquire the coaching diploma was taken immediately after their careers end in the staff of the OL Women's Association. You should especially watch the future Champions League opponents, coordinate the work of female youth teams and act as Talentspäherin.
Palmarčs
- French Champion: 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013
- French Cup winner: 2006, 2008, 2012, 2013
- Champions League winner: 2011, 2012
- Appointment to the Team of the Tournament at the World Cup 2011
- Awarded the UNFP Trophy as the best player of the French League: 2004, 2008