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Kristine Marie Lilly Heavey (; born July 22, 1971) is an American former professional soccer player. She was a member of the United States women's national team for 23 years and is the most-capped football player in the history of the sport (men's or women's), gaining her 354th and final cap against Mexico in a World Cup qualifier in November 2010. Lilly scored 130 international goals for the US national team, making her the team's fourth-highest goal scorer behind Carli Lloyd's 134, Mia Hamm's 158 goals, and Abby Wambach's 184.
Lilly joined W-League side Delaware Genies in 1998. With the club, she appeared in four games, scoring five goals and providing two assists.
February 2001 saw the formation of the world's first women's professional soccer league in which all the players were paid. Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA) had its inaugural season in 2001. Lilly was the team captain and a founding member of the Boston Breakers. In her first season with the team, she appeared in all twenty-one matches and played every minute of the season. She led the league in assists with eleven and added three goals. For her performance, she was named First Team All-WUSA. In 2002, she started in a further nineteen games. She increased her point total for the season, scoring eight goals and assisting on thirteen others. She was again named First Team All-WUSA and was a starter on the WUSA North All-Star Team. In 2003 Lilly started all nineteen games in which she played, chipping in three goals and four assists and again being named to First Team All-WUSA, the only player in the history of the league to do so. Following the 2003 season, the WUSA ceased operations.
Following the termination of the league, Lilly followed former Boston Breakers head coach Pia Sundhage to Sweden to play for Damallsvenskan club KIF Örebro DFF in 2005. There she was joined by fellow USWNT teammate Christie Welsh as well as USWNT and Boston Breakers teammate Kate Markgraf.
In late-2006 and early-2007, the formation of a new women's league took shape under the name of Women's Professional Soccer (WPS). On September 16, 2008, Lilly was allocated to Boston Breakers along with USWNT teammates Angela Hucles and Heather Mitts. The inaugural 2009 Women's Professional Soccer season saw Lilly appear in all twenty games (playing every minute) and score three goals with three assists.
Lilly has participated in the 1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, and 2007 editions of the FIFA Women's World Cup. She is a two-time World Cup champion, winning in 1991 and 1999; during extra time of the '99 Final against China, Lilly, standing on the goal line, blocked a Chinese shot which had passed goalkeeper Briana ScurryArchived at Ghostarchive and the
target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> Wayback Machine: - since the tournament took place with the golden goal rule in effect, the game would have been over if China had scored - and in the ensuing shootout, she scored the goal which would give the US the lead. When she played against North Korea on September 11, 2007, in the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup, she became the first woman (and only the third player overall) to participate in five different World Cup Finals; by scoring a goal against England on September 22, 2007, she became the oldest woman to score in the World Cup.
Lilly has also competed in the 1996, 2000, and 2004 editions of the Olympic Games. She won a gold medal in 1996 and 2004, and a silver medal in 2000. She missed the 2008 Summer Olympics due to the birth of her child.
Unlike several of her longtime teammates (among them Joy Fawcett, Julie Foudy, and Mia Hamm), she did not retire after the team's "farewell tour" which finished on December 8, 2004.
On January 18, 2006, Lilly made her 300th international appearance in a game against Norway. In the same match, she equaled Michelle Akers for second place on the team's all-time goal scoring list with 105. Lilly was named as a finalist for the 2006 FIFA Women's World Player of the Year. She finished second in the voting to Brazil's Marta.
After the birth of her daughter, Lilly returned to the national team in December 2008. Her last match for the national team, representing her record 354th cap, was a World Cup qualifying loss to Mexico (1–2) on November 5, 2010, in which she played for six minutes as a substitute.
She appeared in the HBO documentary . Lilly helps run a soccer camp with Mia Hamm and Tisha Venturini.Wahl, Grant, "Seeing Stars", Sports Illustrated, July 4, 2011, p. 101.
| + Appearances and goals by club, season and competition | ||||
| Tyresö FF | 1994 | |||
| Washington Warthogs | 1995 | CISL | ||
| Delaware Genies | 1998 | W-League | 5 | |
| Boston Breakers | 2001 | WUSA | 3 | |
| 2002 | WUSA | 8 | ||
| 2003 | WUSA | 3 | ||
| KIF Örebro DFF | 2005 | |||
| Boston Breakers | 2009 | WPS | 4 | |
| China 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup | |||||||||
| 1 | 1991-11-17 | Panyu | Group stage | ||||||
| 2 | 1991-11-19 | Panyu | Group stage | ||||||
| 3 | 1991-11-21 | Foshan | Group stage | ||||||
| 4 | 1991-11-24 | Foshan | Start | Quarter-final | |||||
| 5 | 1991-11-27 | Guangzhou | Start | Semifinal | |||||
| 6 | 1991-11-30 | Guangzhou | Start | Final | |||||
| Sweden 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup | |||||||||
| 7 | 1995-06-06 | Gävle | Start | Group stage | |||||
| 1 | 8 | 1995-06-08 | Gävle | Start | 9 | 1–0 | Group stage | ||
| 9 | 1995-06-10 | Helsingborg | Start | Group stage | |||||
| 2 | 10 | 1995-06-13 | Gävle | 8 | 1–0 | Quarter-final | |||
| 3 | 42 | 2–0 | |||||||
| 11 | 1995-06-15 | Västerås | Start | Semifinal | |||||
| 12 | 1995-06-17 | Gävle | Start | Third place match | |||||
| Atlanta 1996 Olympic Women's Football Tournament | |||||||||
| 13 | 1996-07-21 | Orlando | Start | Group stage | |||||
| 14 | 1996-07-23 | Orlando | Start | Group stage | |||||
| 15 | 1996-07-25 | Miami | Start | Group stage | |||||
| 16 | 1996-07-28 | Athens | Start | Semifinal | |||||
| 17 | 1996-08-01 | Athens | Start | Gold medal match | |||||
| USA 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup | |||||||||
| 4 | 18 | 1999-06-19 | E Rutherford | Start | 89 | 3–0 | Group stage | ||
| 5 | 19 | 1999-06-24 | Chicago | Start | 32 | 4–1 | Group stage | ||
| 20 | 1999-06-27 | Boston | Start | Group stage | |||||
| 21 | 1999-07-01 | Washington | Start | Quarter-final | |||||
| 22 | 1999-07-04 | San Francisco | Start | Semifinal | |||||
| 23 | 1999-07-10 | Los Angeles | Start | Final | |||||
| Sydney 2000 Olympic Women's Football Tournament | |||||||||
| 24 | 2000-09-14 | Melbourne | Start | Group stage | |||||
| 25 | 2000-09-17 | Melbourne | Start | Group stage | |||||
| 6 | 26 | 2000-09-20 | Melbourne | 35 | 2–0 | Group stage | |||
| 27 | 2000-09-24 | Canberra | Start | Semifinal | |||||
| 28 | 2000-09-28 | Sydney | Start | Gold medal match | |||||
| 7 | 29 | 2003-09-21 | Washington | Start | 27 | 1–0 | Group stage | ||
| 30 | 2003-09-25 | Philadelphia | Start | Group stage | |||||
| 31 | 2003-09-28 | Columbus | Group stage | ||||||
| 32 | 2003-10-01 | Foxborough | Start | Quarter-final | |||||
| 33 | 2003-10-05 | Portland | Start | Semifinal | |||||
| 8 | 34 | 2003-10-11 | Carson | Start | 22 | 1–0 | Third place match | ||
| Athens 2004 Olympic Women's Football Tournament | |||||||||
| 35 | 2004-08-11 | Heraklion | Start | Group stage | |||||
| 36 | 2004-08-14 | Thessaloniki | Group stage | ||||||
| 9 | 37 | 2004-08-17 | Thessaloniki | Start | 19 | 1–0 | Group stage | ||
| 10 | 38 | 2004-08-20 | Thessaloniki | Start | 43 | 1–0 | Quarter-final | ||
| 11 | 39 | 2004-08-23 | Heraklion | Start | 33 | 1–0 | Semifinal | ||
| 40 | 2004-08-26 | Piraeus | Start | Gold medal match | |||||
| China 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup | |||||||||
| 41 | 2007-09-11 | Chengdu | Start; (c) | Group stage | |||||
| 42 | 2007-09-14 | Chengdu | Start; (c) | Group stage | |||||
| 43 | 2007-09-18 | Shanghai | ; (c) | Group stage | |||||
| 12 | 44 | 2007-09-22 | Tianjin | Start; (c) | 60 | 3–0 | Quarter-final | ||
| 45 | 2007-09-27 | Hangzhou | Start; (c) | Semifinal | |||||
| 46 | 2007-09-30 | Shanghai | ; (c) | Third place match | |||||
| Exhibition match |
| 4–1 |
| 2–0 |
| 5–0 |
| 1991 CONCACAF Women's Championship |
| 5–0 |
| Friendly |
| 1–2 |
| 2–0 |
| 3–0 |
| 3–0 |
| 7–0 |
| 5–0 |
| 6–0 |
| 3–1 |
| 2–0 |
| 1993 CONCACAF Women's Invitational Tournament |
| 9–0 |
| 1994 Algarve Cup |
| Friendly |
| 1994 CONCACAF Women's Championship |
| ?–0 |
| 11–1 |
| 10–0 |
| ?–0 |
| Friendly |
| 1995 Algarve Cup |
| Friendly |
| 6–0 |
| 9–1 |
| 7–? |
| 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup |
| 4–0 |
| 2–0 |
| 1995 Women's U.S. Cup |
| Friendly |
| 2–0 |
| 6–0 |
| 4–0 |
| 4–1 |
| 1996 Women's U.S. Cup |
| 3–0 |
| Friendly |
| 3–1 |
| 4–2 |
| 6–1 |
| 6–0 |
| 1997 Women's U.S. Cup |
| Friendly |
| 3–1 |
| 1998 Algarve Cup |
| 3–1 |
| Friendly |
| 2–0 |
| 3–0 |
| 1998 Women's U.S. Cup |
| 5–0 |
| Friendly |
| 5–0 |
| 6–0 |
| 6–0 |
| 4–0 |
| 1999 Algarve Cup |
| Friendly |
| 3–0 |
| 5–0 |
| 3–0 |
| 4–0 |
| 4–2 |
| 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup |
| 7–1 |
| Friendly |
| 1999 Women's U.S. Cup |
| 5–0 |
| 4–2 |
| 4–2 |
| Friendly |
| 8–0 |
| 2000 Women's U.S. Cup |
| Friendly |
| 2000 Summer Olympics |
| Friendly |
| 7–0 |
| 2002 Women's U.S. Cup |
| 2002 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup |
| Friendly |
| 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup |
| 3–1 |
| 2004 CONCACAF Women's Pre-Olympic Tournament |
| 4–0 |
| 2004 Summer Olympics |
| 2–1 |
| 2–1 |
| Friendly |
| 5–0 |
| 6–0 |
| 2005 Algarve Cup |
| 4–0 |
| Friendly |
| 3–0 |
| 2006 Four Nations Tournament |
| 2–0 |
| 2–0 |
| 2006 Algarve Cup |
| 4–1 |
| Friendly |
| 10–0 |
| 2006 Peace Queen Cup |
| 2–0 |
| 1–0 |
| 2006 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup |
| 2007 Algarve Cup |
| 2–0 |
| Friendly |
| 4–0 |
| 6–2 |
| 2–0 |
| 4–1 |
| 6–1 |
| 4–0 |
| 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup |
| Friendly |
| 4–0 |
| 4–0 |
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