Ali Krieger
Ali Krieger with the United States national team in August 2014
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| Full name | Alexandra Blaire Krieger | |||||||||||
| Date of birth | July 28, 1984 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Alexandria, Virginia, United States | |||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Defender, Right Back | |||||||||||
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Current team
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Orlando Pride | |||||||||||
| Number | 11 | |||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||
| 1991–2003 | Prince William Sparklers | |||||||||||
| College career | ||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 2003–2006 | Penn State Nittany Lions | 87 | (11) | |||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 2005 | Northern Virginia Majestics | 1 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2006–2007 | Washington Freedom | 7 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2007–2011 | 1. FFC Frankfurt | 52 | (1) | |||||||||
| 2009 | → Washington Freedom (loan) | 10 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2011–2012 | 1. FFC Frankfurt | 11 | (1) | |||||||||
| 2013–2016 | Washington Spirit | 66 | (4) | |||||||||
| 2013 | → Tyresö FF (loan) | 7 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2017– | Orlando Pride | |||||||||||
| National team‡ | ||||||||||||
| 2003–2004 | United States U-19 | 4 | (0) | |||||||||
| United States U-21/U-23 | ||||||||||||
| 2008– | United States | 97 | (1) | |||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of June 26, 2013 (UTC) (Spirit Updated October 2016). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of March 5, 2017 |
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Alexandra Blaire "Ali" Krieger (born July 28, 1984) is an American soccer player and FIFA Women's World Cup champion. Primarily a defender, she is a member of the United States women's national soccer team and currently plays with Orlando Pride of the National Women's Soccer League, the highest division of women's soccer in the United States. She first appeared for the United States national team at the 2008 Four Nations Tournament during a match against Canada on January 16, 2008. She has since made 97 total appearances for the team.
Krieger has represented the United States at two FIFA Women's World Cups: 2011 in Germany and 2015 in Canada. She was part of the defense that held opponents scoreless for a record 540 minutes and helped lead the United States to become 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup champions. She started in all seven matches for the United States in the 2015 tournament, and she played every minute of all six United States matches at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. In 2012, Krieger sustained a serious knee injury during the 2012 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying tournament and did not recover in time to be selected to the 2012 Olympic Team. After persevering, Krieger was named to her first Olympic team four years later and participated in the 2016 Rio Olympics. She became the oldest first time US olympian for womens soccer.
Before joining the Orlando Pride in 2016, Krieger played professional soccer for the Washington Freedom, 1. FFC Frankfurt of Germany's Frauen-Bundesliga, Tyresö FF of Sweden's Damallsvenskan and Washington Spirit. During her five years with FFC Frankfurt, she won the UEFA Women's Champions League and was the only player on the United States women's national team that played overseas.
I just wanted to do whatever he did. I wanted to hang out with him all the time and just be hardcore. We were best friends.
Born to Debbie and Ken Krieger in Alexandria, Virginia, Ali was raised with one older brother, Kyle in Dumfries, Virginia. Her father played professional soccer and was a soccer coach in Virginia. Her brother, Kyle, was the reason she started playing soccer. Krieger played youth soccer for the Prince William Sparklers, where she was coached by her father for 12 years. She played with the team from age seven to 19 and was one of the eight players that stayed with the Sparklers for the entire twelve-year run.
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