Sophia Braun
Appearance
Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Sophie Wais Braun[1] | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | [2] | 26 January 2000||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Beaverton, Oregon, U.S.[3] | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[4] | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Midfielder[5] | ||||||||||||||||
Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | León | ||||||||||||||||
Number | 6 | ||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
Jesuit Crusaders | |||||||||||||||||
College career | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
2018–2022 | Gonzaga Bulldogs | 82 | (9) | ||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
2023– | León | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
2020 | Argentina U20 | 4 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
2021– | Argentina | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 6 November 2021. ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18 February 2021. |
Sophie Wais Braun (born 26 January 2000), known as Sophia Braun, is an American-born Argentine footballer who plays as a midfielder for Liga MX Femenil side Club León and the Argentina women's national team.
Early life
Braun was raised in Beaverton, Oregon to an American father and an Argentine mother.[4][6]
High school and college career
Braun has attended the Jesuit High School in Beaverton, Oregon and the Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington.[4]
International career
Braun represented Argentina at the 2020 South American Under-20 Women's Football Championship.[7] She made her senior debut on 18 February 2021, in a 1–4 loss to Brazil at that year's edition of the SheBelieves Cup.[8]
References
- ^ "Equipo – Plantilla — Argentina Under 20 Women". CONMEBOL (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 February 2021.
- ^ "Fotos oficiales de la Selección Femenina Sub 20". Argentine Football Association (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 February 2021.
- ^ "Las 23 elegidas para la Copa América Femenina". Argentine Football Association (in Spanish). 27 June 2022. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
- ^ a b c "Sophia Braun - Women's Soccer". Gonzaga University Athletics. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
- ^ "2020 Women's Soccer Roster". Gonzaga University Athletics. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
- ^ Utley, Riley (12 August 2020). "Brains and Braun: Sophia Braun Gonzaga Women's Soccer". gonzagabulletin.com. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
- ^ Sophia Braun at Soccerway. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
- ^ "Brazil vs. Argentina - 18 February 2021". Women Soccerway. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
Categories:
- 2000 births
- Living people
- Citizens of Argentina through descent
- Argentine women's footballers
- Women's association football midfielders
- Argentina women's youth international footballers
- Argentina women's international footballers
- Jewish Argentine sportspeople
- Jewish footballers
- Jewish sportswomen
- Argentine people of American descent
- Sportspeople from Beaverton, Oregon
- Soccer players from Oregon
- American women's soccer players
- Gonzaga Bulldogs women's soccer players
- Jewish American sportspeople
- American people of Argentine-Jewish descent
- American sportspeople of Latin American descent
- Sportspeople of Argentine descent
- 21st-century American Jews
- 21st-century American women
- Argentine football midfielder stubs
- Argentine women's football biography stubs
- American women's soccer biography stubs
- American soccer midfielder stubs