Hope Powell

Hope Powell

Personal information
Full name	Hope Patricia Powell
Date of birth	8 December 1966 (1966-12-08) (age 45)
Place of birth	Lewisham, England
Playing position	Midfielder (retired)
Club information
Current club	England women (Manager)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
	Millwall Lionesses
	Friends of Fulham
–1998	Croydon
National team
1983–1998	England Women	66	(35)
Teams managed
1998–	England Women
2012–	Team GB Olympic Women's Team
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Hope Patricia Powell, CBE (born 8 December 1966) is an English former international footballer who is the coach of the England women's national football team and the Great Britain and Northern Ireland women's Olympic football team. Powell is an ‘A’ License coach and in 2003 became the first woman to achieve the UEFA Pro Licence - the highest coaching award available.

Contents 1 Playing career 2 Coaching career 3 Honours 4 Personal life 5 References 6 External links

Playing career

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 went 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.

Coaching career

She was appointed as the first ever full-time national coach in 1998 and has led England to the 2001 European Championship, the quarter-finals of the 2005 European Championship, the 2007 World Cup Finals and the final of the 2009 European Championship. 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 2003 Powell became the first woman to be awarded the UEFA Pro Licence, studying alongside Stuart Pearce.^[1] She had become England coach in 1998, and led the national team to the final of Euro 2009 where they lost to Germany. It was speculated that Powell would become the first female manager in men's football when she was linked with the vacant managerial role at Grimsby Town F.C. in October 2009, however caretaker manager Neil Woods was appointed on a permanent basis.^[2]

Honours

Powell was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2002 and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours.^[3][4] In 2003 she was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in recognition of her talents.

Personal life

Powell is a lesbian. In August, 2010, she was named in 68th place on The Independent newspaper’s Pink List of influential lesbian and gay people in the UK.^[5] During her playing career she had embarked on heterosexual relationships with men, who were "intrigued" to discover that she was a footballer.^[6]

References

External links

• Profile at the theFA.com
• Hope Powell at The National Football Museum Hall of Fame Pages

England women's national football team – managers Worthington (1972) Reagan (1979–1990) Williams (1991) Bilton (1991–1993) Copeland (1993–1998) Bate (caretaker) (1998) Powell (1998–)

Hope Powell international tournaments 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 England squad – 2001 UEFA Women's European Championship 1 Cope 2 Murphy 3 Unitt 4 Easton 5 Marley 6 Chapman 7 Burke 8 Proctor 9 K. Smith 10 Banks 11 S. Smith 12 White 13 Hall 14 Fletcher 15 Britton 16 Spacey 17 Yankey 18 Walker 19 Exley 20 Brown Coach: Powell England squad – 2005 UEFA Women's European Championship 1 Fletcher 2 A. Scott 3 Unitt 4 Chapman 5 White 6 Phillip 7 Handley 8 Williams 9 Barr 10 Westwood 11 Yankey 12 K. Smith 13 Brown 14 Carney 15 Stoney 16 Exley 17 Asante 18 Aluko 19 Johnson 20 Hall Coach: Powell 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 England squad – 2009 UEFA Women's European Championship 1 Brown 2 A. Scott 3 Stoney 4 Williams 5 Johnson 6 Asante 7 Carney 8 Chapman 9 Aluko 10 K. Smith 11 S. Smith 12 J. Scott 13 Chamberlain 14 White 15 Unitt 16 Handley 17 Sanderson 18 Westwood 19 Bassett 20 Buet 21 Clarke 22 Bardsley Coach: Powell England squad – 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup 1 Bardsley 2 A. Scott 3 Unitt 4 J. Scott 5 F. White 6 Stoney 7 Clarke 8 Williams 9 E. White 10 K. Smith 11 Yankey 12 Carney 13 Brown 14 Aluko 15 Bradley 16 Houghton 17 Bassett 18 Asante 19 Susi 20 Rafferty 21 Chamberlain Coach: Powell

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Date of birth	8 December 1966
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