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Full name
  
Danielle Egan Reyna

Name
  
Danielle Egan

Years
  
Team

Playing position
  
Height
  
5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)


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Date of birth
  
(1973-08-28) August 28, 1973 (age 42)

Place of birth
  

Danielle Egan Reyna (born August 28, 1973) is a retired American soccer player. Egan played six times for the United States women's national soccer team in 1993. She married soccer player Claudio Reyna in 1997.

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College career

Egan played for North Carolina Tar Heels under coach Anson Dorrance and alongside Mia Hamm, Tisha Venturini and Kristine Lilly.

International career

In 1993 Egan made six appearances, all starts, for the senior United States women's team. She scored one goal, the first in a 6–0 win over Australia in Hamilton, Ontario on July 7, 1993.

Personal life

Egan married Claudio Reyna, then a member of the United States men's national soccer team, in July 1997, one week after he attended the FIFA All-Star Game in Hong Kong and two weeks after the male U.S. team's World Cup qualifier at El Salvador. They have had four children: Jack, who was born in 1999 and died of cancer in 2012, Giovanni, who was born in 2002 and named after Reyna's good friend and former colleague at Glasgow Rangers Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Joah, and Carolina. The family live in Bedford, New York.

On July 19, 2012 it was announced that Egan's 13-year-old son Jack lost his fight with cancer.

References

Danielle Egan Wikipedia