Melissa Tancredi



Melissa Palma Julie Tancredi (born 27 December 1981) is a Canadian soccer forward who currently plays for the Canada women's national soccer team. She won an Olympicbronze medal as a participating member of Canada's women's national football team soccer program at the 2012 Olympics when Canada defeated France 1–0 in the bronze medal match on 9 August 2012.



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[hide]  *1 Early life  ==Early life[edit] == Tancredi was born in Ancaster, Ontario to parents, Peter and Ann-Marie Tancredi. She began playing soccer at age four.[3]  She played soccer, volleyball and track at Cathedral High School (Hamilton, Ontario). She was named soccer MVP and senior athlete of the year during her senior year.
 * 1.1 University of Notre Dame
 * 2 Playing career
 * 2.1 Club
 * 2.2 International
 * 2.3 International goals
 * 3 Personal
 * 4 References
 * 5 External links

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 MVP of the Burlington Sting in 1999.[4] ===University of Notre Dame[edit] === Tancredi attended the University of Notre Dame from 2000–2004 where she majored in Anthropology and Pre-Medicine Studies. She was sidelined her first year due to an ACL knee 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.[5]

In 2004, she returned to Notre Dame after being awarded ﬁfth year of eligibility and was named as Irish 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.[6] ==Playing career[edit] == ===Club[edit] === <p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">In 2004, Tancredi played with the Detroit Jaguars in the W-League scoring two goals and providing two assists in 10 games played.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">From 2005–2006, she played for the Atlanta Silverbacks Women in the W-League and was named to the 2005 W-League All-League team.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">In 2009, she played for the Saint Louis Athletica in the Women's Professional Soccer league.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">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.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">In 2011, Tancredi was a member of the Piteå IF in Sweden.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">In 2012, she played with the Swedish team, Dalsjöfors GoIF.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">In 2014, she was allocated to the expansion Houston Dash by Canadian National team coach John Herdman, but traded to the Chicago Red Stars for fellow Canadian internationalErin McLeod before the Dash's expansion draft. ===International<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] === <p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Tancredi was a member of the Canadian U19 National Team and trained in British Columbia with U20 National Team in 2000. She was also a member of the 1999 national women's 'B' training team.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">She made her debut with the Canada women's national soccer team starting at central back in all five games of 2004 Olympic qualifying (26 Feb. – 5 March, 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.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">She had previously been invited to play with the Canadian National Team at 2000 Algarve Cup in Portugal.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Tancredi was part of the Canadian CONCACAF Gold Cup team that ﬁnished second to the United States.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">In 2007, Tancredi scored the second-fastest goal in World Cup history (just 37 seconds from the start of the September game with Australia) in her first game at the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup in China.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[9]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">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.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">She was part of the bronze medal-winning team at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, where she scored four goals.