Julie Foudy

Julie Maurine Foudy (/ˈfaʊdi/ FOW-dee; born January 23, 1971) is an American retired soccer midfielder, two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist. She played for the United States women's national soccer team from 1988 to 2004. Foudy finished her international career with 274 caps and served as the team's captain from 2000 to 2004 as well as the co-captain from 1991 to 2000. In 1997, she was the first American and first woman to receive the FIFA Fair Play Award.

Julie Foudy
Foudy in 2014
Personal information
Full name Julie Maurine Foudy
Date of birth (1971-01-23) January 23, 1971
Place of birth San Diego, California, United States
Height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Position(s) Midfielder
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1989–1992 Stanford Cardinal 78 (52)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1993 Sacramento Storm
1994 Tyresö FF
1995–1998 Sacramento Storm
2001–2003 San Diego Spirit 59 (8)
International career
1988–2004 United States 274 (45)
Medal record
Women's football (soccer)
Representing the  United States
Olympic Games
1996 Atlanta Team competition
2004 Athens Team competition
2000 Sydney Team competition
FIFA Women's World Cup
1991 China Team competition
1999 USA Team competition
1995 Sweden Team competition
2003 USA Team competition
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

From 2000 to 2002, Foudy served as president of the Women's Sports Foundation. In 2006, she co-founded the Julie Foudy Sports Leadership Academy, an organization focused on developing leadership skills in teenage girls. In 2007, she was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame with her teammate, Mia Hamm. She is currently an analyst, reporter and the primary color commentator for women's soccer telecasts on ESPN.

Foudy is the author of Choose to Matter: Being Courageously and Fabulously YOU and appeared in the HBO documentary Dare to Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team. She was the executive producer of the documentary short, An Equal Playing Field, starring Christen Press and producer of the ESPN Nine for IX episode entitled The 99ers, featuring some of her teammates from the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup-winning U.S. national team.

She is a part of the ownership group of Angel City FC of the National Women's Soccer League.

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