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Sandrine Soubeyrand (born 16 August 1973) is a French former
footballer
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and current coach of Paris FC (women). She played as a midfielder
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for France national team, Félines Saint-Cyr, Caluire and Juvisy
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At club level, Soubeyrand won two Division 1 Féminine
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titles and a Coupe de France Féminine with Juvisy and received the UNFP Female Player of the Year in 2003. At international level with France, she played in two FIFA Women's World Cup
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, five UEFA Women's Championship and one Olympic Games
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Soubeyrand is the nation's most capped football player (male or female) in history with 198 appearances and a recipient of the National Order of Merit.
Personal life
Soubeyrand studied at INSEP to become a sports educator and is a school director for extracurricular activities inJuvisy-sur-Orge
Juvisy-sur-Orge (, literally ''Juvisy on Orge'') is a commune in the Essonne department in ÃŽle-de-France in northern France. It is located southeast of Paris and a few kilometres south of Orly Airport.
The city is known for Gare de Juvisy, ...
(Essonne
Essonne () is a department in the southern part of the Île-de-France region in Northern France. It is named after the river Essonne. In 2019, it had a population of 1,301,659, across 194 communes.Knight of the National Order of Merit for her services to French football, Valérie Fourneyron ( France Minister of Sports) presented her with the insignia on 5 February 2013 in Évry.
Club career
Early career
Soubeyrand began playing at the age of 6 for local club ''Boulieu-lès-Annonay'' in the département ofArdèche
Ardèche (; , ; ) is a Departments of France, department in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Southeastern France. It is named after the river Ardèche (river), Ardèche and had a population of 328,278 as of 2019.Saint-Cyr where she spent seven years.
Caluire
In August 1994, she arrived inCaluire-et-Cuire
Caluire-et-Cuire (; ) is a commune in the Metropolis of Lyon in the department of Rhône, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, eastern France.
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( Greater Lyon) to play for ''Caluire Saint-Clair SC'' of the National 1B (second division). In her first season (1994–95), the club won the National 1B title and was promoted to the National 1A for the 1995–96 season. She remained with the club in the National 1A for the following seasons until the club's relegation at the conclusion of the 1999–00 season.
Juvisy
Ahead of the 2000–01 season, she joined National 1A clubFCF Juvisy
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in the département of Essonne
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She made her European debut at the 2003–04 UEFA Women's Cup, where she played three matches and scored two goals, both against Polish side
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. The club finish that season's D1 in third place.
Juvisy finish as D1 runners up in 2004–05 and won the French Cup, beating Olympique Lyonnais (Lyon) in the final. After a 1–1 draw, the match was decided on penalty shoot-out
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, Soubeyrand took Juvisy's third shot which was saved by Lyon's goalkeeper Hope Solo, despite the non-conversion, Juvisy won 5–4.
She won the D1 for a second time in 2005–06 and played all 22 matches. In the following season, she played 21 matches in the D1 to finish third and one match in the 2006–07 UEFA Women's Cup
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. She was D1 runner up in 2007–08 and played 21 matches.
At the 2008–09 season, despite being 35 years old, Soubeyrand appeared in 20 of the club's 22 matches and scored seven goals helping Juvisy finish in third, one point shy of qualifying for the newly created UEFA Women's Champions League
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(re-branding of the UEFA Women's Cup).
In the following season, Soubeyrand took part in all 22 games in the league, scoring and assisting three goals. In the same season, Juvisy managed to qualify for the UEFA Women's Champions League
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but merely missed out on the league title to defending champions Lyon.
In the 2010–11 season with Juvisy, she participated in 21 league games, managing to go goalless, but assisting six goals. This was only the second time in her career with the club since 2001 that she did not score a league goal in a season. She finished the season in fourth place and also played in the Champions League, participating in nine games, scoring twice to reached the quarter-final stage, being badly beaten and knocked out of the competition 9–2 on aggregate against the finalists Turbine Potsdam.
In the 2011–12 season, Soubeyrand finished runners up once again with Juvisy, behind league winners Lyon.
In 2012–13, she ended the season in third place with Juvisy, but managed to go all the way to the semi-finals in the 2012–13 UEFA Women's Champions League where they suffered a heavy 9–1 defeat on aggregate to fellow country club Lyon.
In the 2013–14 league season, she finished third once again with Juvisy, assisting ten goals and scoring one. Sandrine retired after Juvisy's final league game of the 2013–14 season at the age of 40 after enjoying a 14-year spell at Juvisy, including over 280 matches played in all competitions, two league titles (2002–03 and 2005–06 seasons), a French Cup title (2004–05), and participated in the UEFA Women's Cup and the re-branded UEFA Women's Champions League
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.
International career
As a Caluire SC player, Soubeyrand was called up forFrance women's national football team
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and made her international debut on 12 April 1997 in a 3–0 friendly match
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victory over Belgium
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. Later that year she took part on the UEFA Women's Euro 1997, playing all France's three matches in the tournament.
She played five matches at the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification, scoring her first goal on 11 April 1998 in a 3–2 defeat to Italy
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.
Over the following years she established herself as a capable midfielder, becoming a consistent presence in the French squads, accumulating appearances with the national team and eventually becoming the team's captain
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. Apart from major tournaments, she played in numerous friendlies and smaller international tournaments, such as qualifications for major tournaments, Algarve Cup
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s and Cyprus Cups.
On 28 October 2009, she earned her record 143rd career international cap in a match against Estonia
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. The achievement surpassed French men's international defender Lilian Thuram
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as the nation's most capped football player.
After 16 years with the national team, Soubeyrand retired from international football at the age of 39, on 22 July 2013 after a 1–1 draw with Denmark
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. She played 198 matches (186 in the starting line up and 12 as incoming substitute) and scored 17 goals. Major tournaments played includes two FIFA Women's World Cup
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s (2003
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), five UEFA Women's Championships (1997
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, 2001
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, 2005
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, 2009
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and 2013
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) and one Olympic Games
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(2012
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).
Coaching career
In 2014, she was appointed coach of France women's national under-17 football team. In 2018, she was named coach of Paris FC Women. She achieved the highest level of coaching certification in French football, BEPF, in 2023.Career statistics
Club
International
:''Scores and results list France's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Soubeyrand goal.''Honours
Juvisy *Division 1 Féminine
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: 2002–03, 2005–06
* Coupe de France Féminine: 2004–05
France
* Cyprus Cup: 2012
2012 was designated as:
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*International Year of Sustainable Energy for All
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Individual
* UNFP Female Player of the Year: 2002–03
Orders
* Knight of the National Order of Merit: 2011
* Knight of the Legion of Honour: 2023
References
External links
* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Soubeyrand, Sandrine 1973 births Living people Footballers from Ardèche French women's footballers Women's association football midfielders Paris FC (women) players Première Ligue players France women's international footballers 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players FIFA Women's Century Club Olympic footballers for France Footballers at the 2012 Summer Olympics French football managers Female association football managers Division 1 Féminine managers Knights of the Ordre national du Mérite Knights of the Legion of Honour 21st-century French sportswomen