Hope Powell

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Hope Powell

Full name	Hope Powell
Date of birth	December 8, 1966 (1966-12-08) (age 41)
Place of birth	London, England
Playing position	Midfielder
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
	Millwall Lionesses Fulham Croydon
National team
1983–1998	England Women	66 (35)
Teams managed
1998–	England Women
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Hope Powell OBE (born 8 December, 1966, Lewisham, South East London) is the coach of the England women's national football team. She is easily distinguished by her dreadlocks and is the sister of Dirty Pretty Things and ex-Libertines drummer Gary Powell. Powell is a fully qualified ‘A’ License coach and in 2003 became the first woman to achieve the UEFA Pro Licence - the highest coaching award available.

As a player, Powell won 66 caps for England, mainly as an attacking midfielder, scoring 35 goals. She made her England debut at the age of 16, and would go on to play in the 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup, England's first World Cup appearance. She was also vice-captain of her country. At club-level, she played for Millwall Lionesses for nine years and won the FA Women's Cup three times, including a league and Cup double as captain of Croydon in 1996.

She was appointed as the first ever full-time national coach in 1998 and has led England to the 2001 European Championship and the quarter-finals of the 2005 European Championship and the 2007 World Cup Finals. As well as managing the England Senior team, she oversees the whole set-up from Under-15s to the Under-21s, a coach mentoring scheme and The FA’s National Player Development Centre at Loughborough University.

In 2002 Powell was appointed OBE, and in 2003 was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in recognition of her talents.

[edit] External links

Profile at the FA website
Hope Powell at The National Football Museum Hall of Fame Pages

Sporting positions
Preceded by Position created	England women's national football team manager 1998–present	Succeeded by Incumbent

v • d • e England squad - 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup

1 Cope • 2 Powell • 3 Mapes • 4 Britton • 5 Taylor • 6 Coultard • 7 Spacey • 8 Bampton • 9 Farley • 10 Burke • 11 Sempare • 12 Davis • 13 Higgs • 14 Walker • 15 Williams • 16 Smith • 17 Waller • 18 Phillip • 19 Fletcher • 20 Easton • Coach: Copeland

v • d • e England squad - 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup

1 Brown • 2 A. Scott • 3 Stoney • 4 Chapman • 5 White • 6 Phillip • 7 Carney • 8 Williams • 9 Aluko • 10 K. Smith • 11 Yankey • 12 Asante • 13 Chamberlain • 14 Unitt • 15 S. Smith • 16 J. Scott • 17 Handley • 18 Sanderson • 19 Exley • 20 Johnson • 21 Telford • Coach: Powell