Julie Foudy
Julie Foudy was born in San Diego, California, United States on January 23rd, 1971 and is the Sportscaster. At the age of 53, Julie Foudy biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Julie Maurine Foudy (born January 23, 1971) is an American retired soccer midfielder, two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champion, and an Olympic gold medalist.
She competed for the United States national soccer team from 1987–2004.
Foudy retired from international service with 274 caps, as the team's captain from 2000–2004, as well as the co-captain from 1991–2000.
She became the first American and first woman to be honoured with the FIFA Fair Play Award in 1997. Foudy served as president of the Women's Sports Foundation from 2000 to 2002.
She co-founded the Julie Foudy Sports Leadership Academy in 2006, a group that concentrated on improving leadership skills in teen girls.
Mia Hamm, her colleague, was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 2007.
She is now 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 Stunningly YOU and appeared in the HBO documentary Dare to Dream: The Story of the United States Women's Soccer Team.
She was executive producer of An Equal Playing Field, starring Christen Press and producer of the ESPN Nine for IX episode entitled, The 99ers, starring some of her teammates from the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup-winning U.S. national team.
Early life
Foudy was born in San Diego, California, but he was raised in Mission Viejo. She graduated from Mission Viejo High School in 1989, where she was a two-time First-Team All-American. Foudy was named both the Los Angeles Times High School Player of the Year and Player of the Year in southern California for three years (1987-1989).
Foudy studied at Stanford University, where she was named as the Stanford Cardinal women's soccer Player of the Year for three years (1989–91). She was a four-time NSCAA All-American at Stanford and finished her collegiate career with 52 goals, 32 assists, and 136 points in 78 appearances. She was voted both the 1991 Soccer America Player of the Year and the 1989 Soccer America Freshman of the Year, as well as a two-time finalist for the Hermann Trophy in 1991 and 1992. For the fourth year, she aided the Cardinals in qualifying for the NCAA tournament playoffs for the fourth time. She was named to Soccer America's College Team of the Decade in 1994 as a recipient of the Stanford Outstanding Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior Athlete Award.
Playing career
Foudy was a member of the Sacramento Storm, which won the 1993, 1995, and 1997 California State Amateur championships.
Foudy played for Tyresö FF in the Damallsvenskan in Sweden in 1994, alongside her national team colleagues, Michelle Akers, Mary Harvey, and Kristine Lilly.
Foudy was captain of her Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA) team, the San Diego Spirit. She made 59 appearances on the regular season, scoring eight goals and giving 13 assists. Foudy, the official player's representative to the continuing attempts to revive the sport when it was suspended in September 2003.
Foudy started traveling with the United States women's national soccer team as a 16-year-old. She appeared at the Mundialito for the first time in 1988 as a non-playing substitute.
Foudy has competed in four FIFA Women's World Cup tournaments, winning two FIFA Women's World Cup titles since 1991 and 1999. She competed in three Summer Olympic Games, winning an Olympic gold medal in 1996, Silver in 2000, and Gold again in 2004. Foudy joined Mia Hamm, Joy Fawcett, and Brandi Chastain in a 10-game "farewell tour" that marked the end of what the media called the "golden era" of American women's soccer. "... changed the face of women's soccer," the St. Petersburg Times said.
Sports broadcasting career
Foudy has been an in-studio analyst for ABC, ESPN, and ESPN's coverage of the 2006 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2008, as well as on-air commentary and analysis during United States Women's National Team matches since then. She has also coanchored ABC and ESPN telecasts of the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup and the 2007 season of Major League Soccer, including the MLS Cup. Together with Andy Gray and Tommy Smyth, she appeared as a pundit for the ESPN coverage of the UEFA Euro 2008 championship finals. She worked as a reporter and analyst for FIFA World Cup 2010, covering South Africa's television, interviews, and analysis. Outside the Lines, Foudy is also a reporter for ESPN's investigative service. She spent time as a sportsdesk reporter for NBC Sports coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics. On ESPN First Take, she also fills in for Dana Jacobson. Foudy has been paired with Glenn Davis or Ian Darke on ESPN's main broadcast team for women's soccer television broadcasts since late-2010, as was the case with the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.
ESPN Films partnered with Foudy on August 20, 2013 to premiere their latest Nine for IX film on the 1999 Women's World Cup Team, the 99ers. Using Foudy's personal behind the scenes video, Erin Leyden's film, directed by Leyden, and produced by Foudy, tells the incredible tale of the 1999 United States women's national soccer team. The film follows how women's soccer – and women's sports as a whole – has changed since that monumental day at the Rose Bowl, reuniting key players from the 1999 squad and interacting with current U.S. players as well.
Foudy served as ESPN's reporter from the 2018 Winter Olympics and the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.
Foudy is the host of Laughter Permitted, a podcast that discusses "trailblazers in sports about the joy/chaos of life and sports."