Julie Foudy, United States footballer: Profile, Career, News & Videos

Julie Foudy is an American former professional soccer player who played as a midfielder. She played for the United States women's national soccer team from 1988 to 2004, serving as co-captain from 1991 to 2000 and as captain from 2000 to 2004. With the U.S. team, Foudy won the FIFA Women's World Cup in 1991 and 1999, and won the gold medal at the Summer Olympics in 1996 and 2004. Foudy finished her international career with 274 caps. In 1997, she was the first American and first woman to receive the FIFA Fair Play Award.

From 2000 to 2002, Foudy served as president of the Women's Sports Foundation. In 2006, she co-founded the Julie Foudy Sports Leadership Academy, an organization focused on developing leadership skills in teenage girls. In 2007, she was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame. She is currently a sports analyst, reporter and the primary color commentator for women's soccer telecasts on ESPN.

Foudy is the author of Choose to Matter: Being Courageously and Fabulously YOU. She appeared in the HBO documentary Dare to Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team. She was the executive producer of the documentary short, An Equal Playing Field, and she produced the ESPN Nine for IX episode The 99ers, which features players from U.S. team that won the 1999 Women's World Cup. Foudy is a part of the ownership group of Angel City FC of the National Women's Soccer League.