Steffi Jones

Infobox Football biography
playername = Steffi Jones


fullname = Stephanie Ann Jones
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1972|12|22
cityofbirth = Frankfurt am Main
countryofbirth = Germany
height = height|m=1.80
position = Defender
currentclub =
clubnumber =
youthyears = 1986-1988
1988-1992
youthclubs = SV Dörnigheim FC
FC Hochstadt
years = 1988-1991
1991-1992
1992-1993
1993-1994
1994-1995
1995-1996
1998-2000
2000
2000-2007
clubs = SG Praunheim
FSV Frankfurt
SG Praunheim
TuS Niederkirchen
SG Praunheim
FSV Frankfurt
SC 07 Bad Neuenahr
Washington Freedom
1. FFC Frankfurt
caps(goals) =
nationalyears = 1993-2007
nationalteam = Germany
nationalcaps(goals) = 0111 (9)
pcupdate =
ntupdate = March 25, 2008

Stephanie Ann "Steffi" Jones (born 22 December 1972 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German football defender. She scored nine goals in 111 caps for the German national team between 1993 and 2007cite web|accessdate=
url=http://www.dfb.de/index.php?id=500407&lang=E&action=showPlayer&liga=Frauen-Nationalmannschaft&vorname=&nachname=Jones&cHash=277822afc4
title=official statistics at DFB
author=DFB
work=DFB Net
date=March 28, 2007] . In March 2007, she retired from the national team and in December 2007 she announced her retirement from active soccer to become president of the organisation committee of 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.cite web|accessdate=
url=http://www.dfb.de/index.php?id=500016&no_cache=1&tx_dfbnews_pi1%5BshowUid%5D=12703&cHash=e062ef4072
title=official announcement at DFB
author=DFB
work=DFB Net
date=November 11, 2007]

She is the daughter of an American soldier, stationed in Germany and a German woman. She holds both German and American citizenship.

Football career

Club career

Steffi started playing soccer at the age of four. From 1979 to 1986 she played in mixed youth teams for SV Bonames in Frankfurt. In 1986, she joined the girls team of SG Praunheim and moved to the club's women team in 1988. In 1991, she moved to FSV Frankfurt and had changed teams almost every year until she joined 1. FFC Frankfurt in 2000. In 2002, she joined Washington Freedom to play in WUSA for two years before going back to Frankfurt where she ended her career as a player on 9 December 2007.

International career

Steffi's first cap for Germany was earned in 1993, during the third placing match of the UEFA Women's Championship against Denmark, which Germany lost. From 1997, she won three consecutive European Championships with the German team, won an Olympic bronze at the 2000 Summer Olympics and was part of the German squad that won the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup. She suffered a rupture of the cruciate ligament early on in the tournament and had to pause for half a year. In 2004, she won another Olympic bronze for the second time in Athens.

On 26 March 2007, Steffi announced the end of her international career.

Honours

Personal

*11 June 2006: Hessian Order of Merit „for many years of voluntary services as patron of the ‚Ballance 2006 – Integration und Toleranz für eine friedliche Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft.‘ project“ [ [http://www.hessen.de/irj/zentral_Internet?rid=zentral_15/zentral_Internet/nav/6ba/6ba5072f-a961-6401-e76c-d1505eb31b65,4e070a27-2fe2-cb01-c5ec-3f144e9169fc,22222222-2222-2222-2222-222222222222,22222222-2222-2222-2222-222222222222,11111111-2222-3333-4444-100000005004.htm Hessische Staatskanzlei: "Hessischer Verdienstorden für Steffi Jones";] Pressemitteilung vom 11. Juni 2006]

Club

Country

Personal life

Her brother, Frank, served as an American soldier in Iraq. He lost both legs in an assault in 2006.

In August 2007, Steffi's autobiographical book "Der Kick des Lebens" (The kick of life) was released.cite web|accessdate=
url=http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2007/09/22/797156.html
title=Interview with Steffi Jones (in German)
author=JENS-MEYER ODEWALD
work=Hamburger Abendblatt
date=September 22, 2007]

Currently, she’s working on her coaching license at the German Sport University Cologne.

External links

* [http://www.steffi-jones.de/ Official Website] (in German)

References

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