Number 9 Height 1.75 m Role Soccer player Current team Chicago Red Stars | Name Melissa Tancredi Years Team Weight 73 kg | |
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Full name Melissa Palma Julie Tancredi Date of birth (1981-12-27) December 27, 1981 (age 34) Place of birth Ancaster, Ontario, Canada 2000–2004 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Similar People Christine Sinclair, Sophie Schmidt, Erin McLeod, Desiree Scott, Rhian Wilkinson Profiles | ||
Education University of Notre Dame | ||
Wnt vs canada melissa tancredi goal june 30 2012
Melissa Palma Julie Tancredi (born December 27, 1981) is a retired Canadian soccer forward who played for the Canada women's national soccer team. She won an Olympic bronze medal as a participating member of Canada's national team at the 2012 Olympics when Canada defeated France 1–0 in the bronze medal match on August 9, 2012. Tancredi's nickname is "Tanc".
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- Wnt vs canada melissa tancredi goal june 30 2012
- Melissa tancredi wwc 07
- Early life
- College
- Personal life
- Club
- International
- Matches and goals scored at World Cup and Olympic tournaments
- Honours
- References
Melissa tancredi wwc 07
Early life
Tancredi was born in Ancaster, Ontario, to parents Peter and Ann-Marie Tancredi. She began playing soccer at age four. She played soccer, volleyball and track at Cathedral High School in Hamilton, Ontario. She was named soccer MVP and senior athlete of the year during her senior year.
She played for the under-19 provincial team and Burlington Sting club program. She helped the Burlington Sting win the Canadian title and Ontario Cup and was named the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the Burlington Sting in 1999.
College
Tancredi attended the University of Notre Dame in the US from 2000 to 2004 where she majored in anthropology and pre-medicine studies. She played on the school's soccer team, but she was sidelined her first year due to an anterior cruciate ligament injury.
In 2003, she was named First Team All-American, Second Team All-American, NSCAA Second Team All-Region, Big East Defensive Player of the Year, First Team All-Big East Conference. She was a final candidate for the MAC Hermann Trophy.
In 2004, she returned to Notre Dame after being awarded fifth year of eligibility and was named as tri-captain. She helped lead the Irish to the NCAA National Championship and was named First Team All-American, Second Team All-American, First Team All-Big East, and Big East Defensive Player of the Year for a second straight season.
Personal life
Tancredi retired from Soccer in early 2017. She is now a Doctor of Chiropractic, practicing out of MVMTLAB Sports Performance Clinic in Vancouver BC and out of Maxfit Movement in Port Moody BC.
Club
In 2004, Tancredi played with the Detroit Jaguars in the W-League scoring two goals and providing two assists in 10 games played.
From 2005 to 2006, she played for the Atlanta Silverbacks Women in the W-League and was named to the 2005 W-League All-League team.
In 2009, she played for the Saint Louis Athletica in the Women's Professional Soccer league.
In 2010, she joined the Vancouver Whitecaps FC in the W-League and led the team with six goals and two assists, The team was undefeated in regular season and had a spot in the W-League's Final four.
In 2011, Tancredi was a member of the Piteå IF in Sweden.
In 2012, she played with the Swedish team Dalsjöfors GoIF.
In 2014, she was allocated to the expansion Houston Dash by Canadian national team coach John Herdman, but was traded to the Chicago Red Stars for fellow Canadian international Erin McLeod before the Dash's expansion draft.
International
Tancredi was a member of the Canadian U19 national team and trained in British Columbia with the U20 national team in 2000. She was also a member of the 1999 national 'B' training team.
She made her debut with Canada starting as central back in all five games of 2004 Olympic qualifying in Costa Rica, with 6–0 wins over Jamaica and Panama, two wins over Costa Rica (2–1, 4–0), and a 2–1 loss to Mexico that cost the Canadians a spot at the Olympic Games.
She had previously been invited to play with the Canadian national team at the 2000 Algarve Cup in Portugal.
Tancredi was part of the Canadian CONCACAF Gold Cup team that finished second to the United States.
In 2007, Tancredi scored the second-fastest goal in World Cup history (just 37 seconds from the start of the September game against Australia) in her first game at the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup in China.
Tancredi won a bronze medal at the 2007 Pan American Games and played for 199 minutes (starting three games) at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.
She was part of the bronze medal-winning team at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, where she scored four goals.
Matches and goals scored at World Cup and Olympic tournaments
Melissa Tancredi competed for team Canada in two world cup final tournaments: 2007 and 2011 editions; and two Olympics: Beijing 2008 and London 2012. Tancredi played in 14 matches and scored 6 goals at these global tournaments; and is a Bronze medalist at London.