Charmaine Hooper

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Charmaine Hooper
Personal information
Full name Charmaine Elizabeth Hooper [1]
Date of birth (1968-01-15) January 15, 1968 (age 56)
Place of birth Georgetown, Guyana
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) [1]
Position(s) Striker
College career
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1987–1990 NC State Wolfpack 89 (58)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1993 FK Donn 13 (17)
1993–1994 Lazio
1994–1998 Prima Ham FC Kunoichi
1995–1996 Rockford Dactyls
1998–2000 Chicago Cobras [2]
2001–2003 Atlanta Beat 59 (34)
2004 Chicago Cobras 4 (1)
2006 New Jersey Wildcats [3] 3 (4)
2008 Fort Worth FC
International career
1986–2006 Canada 129 (71)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Charmaine Elizabeth Hooper (born January 15, 1968) is a Canadian retired soccer player. A four-time winner of the Canadian Players of the Year award and member of the Canada Soccer Hall of Fame, Hooper played on the Canada women's national soccer team from 1986 to 2006. As a forward, she stood as Canada's record holder for the women's national team for appearances and goals scored when she retired. [4] Hooper competed in three FIFA Women's World Cup tournaments: 1995 in Sweden, 1999, and 2003 in the United States. At club level, Hooper played professionally in Norway, Italy, Japan, and the United States.

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Early life

Hooper was born on January 15, 1968, in Georgetown, Guyana. [5] She and her family moved to Zambia when Hooper was 6 years old, then later to Ottawa when she was 9. [5] She attended J. S. Woodsworth Secondary School, then later North Carolina State University. [5]

While at NCSU, Hooper was a student-athlete on the NC State Wolfpack women's soccer team. She set the record for most points in a season, most goals in a season, most points in a career, and most goals in a career. [6] The team was Atlantic Coast Conference champions in 1988, made it to the NCAA quarterfinals in 1987 and 1990, the semifinals in 1989, and the final in 1988. [6] She made 89 appearances and scored 58 goals for the Wolfpack and graduated with a degree in food science. [5] [7] Following her career, she was inducted into the NC State Athletic Hall of Fame in 2014. [6]

Club career

In 1993, Hooper played for FK Donn of the Norwegian Toppserien. [8] She scored 17 goals in 13 league appearances. [9] After a short period with Lazio of Serie A, Hooper signed a professional contract with Japanese L. League club Prima Ham FC Kunoichi. [5] She was a highly valued player in Japan and returned to North America after four seasons: "There was nothing more to gain in Japan. I had won just about every award there. Plus there was the distance." [10]

She returned to the United States and played for the Rockford Dactyls and the Chicago Cobras of the USL W-League. She would be inducted into the inaugural class of the United Soccer League's Hall of Fame in 2002. [2]

When the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA) professional league was being put together in America, Hooper signed a letter of intent but had concerns over the salary structure. [11] Hooper was selected by the Atlanta Beat in the 2000 WUSA foreign player allocation and played for the team for all three seasons of the WUSA's existence, including the championship matches in 2001 and 2003.

She returned to the W-League Cobras in 2004, then played in the same league for the New Jersey Wildcats in 2006. In 2008, she played for the Fort Worth FC of the Women's Premier Soccer League (WPSL), her final season of club competition.

International career

Charmaine Hooper display at Canada's Sports Hall of Fame Canada's Sports Hall of Fame (6) (32199758310).jpg
Charmaine Hooper display at Canada's Sports Hall of Fame

Hooper made 128 appearances and scored 71 goals for Canada, at one time both national records. Her international debut came on July 7, 1986 against the United States. She represented Canada at three FIFA Women's World Cups (Sweden 1995, USA 1999 and USA 2003).

In August 2006 Hooper and Christine Latham refused to attend two exhibition games against China and fell into dispute with team coach Even Pellerud. Along with a third disgruntled player, Sharolta Nonen, they publicly called for Pellerud's removal. Alleging he had pressured them to break their club contracts in order to join Vancouver Whitecaps and had tried to fix the outcome of a USL W-League play-off by releasing certain national team players but not others. [12] Pellerud suspended the players and terminated their funding. In June 2007 an arbitrator ruled in favor of the coach. Hooper's replacement as captain Christine Sinclair strongly criticized the players' actions: "They let down their teammates and since then have done nothing to rectify it. I wouldn't want them as teammates." [13]

Hooper was inducted into the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame in June 2012. [14] The same year in October she was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in Calgary.

International goals

No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.16 April 1991 Port-au-Prince, Haiti Flag of Costa Rica.svg  Costa Rica 2–06–0 1991 CONCACAF Women's Championship
2.4–0
3.18 April 1991Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica 2–09–0
4.4–0
5.5–0
6.6–0
7.21 April 1991Flag of Haiti.svg  Haiti 1–02–0
8.4 August 1993 New Hyde Park, United States Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg  Trinidad and Tobago 4–04–0 1993 CONCACAF Women's Championship
9.12 April 1994 Milford, Trinidad & Tobago Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg  Trinidad and Tobago 2–02–0 Friendly
10.14 April 1994 San Fernando, Trinidad & TobagoFlag of the United States.svg  United States 1–?1–4
11.27 July 1994 Montreal, Canada Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 1–01–2
12.5 August 1994Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 1–?1–2
13.13 August 1994Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica 1–07–0 1994 CONCACAF Women's Championship
14.5–0
15.6–0
16.15 August 1994Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 3–06–0
17.19 August 1994Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg  Trinidad and Tobago 4–05–0
18.5–0
19.28 August 1998 Toronto, CanadaFlag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico 7–021–0 1998 CONCACAF Women's Championship
16.11–0
17.30 August 1998Flag-of-Martinique.svg  Martinique 3–014–0
18.1 September 1998Flag of Guatemala.svg  Guatemala 1–04–0
19.4 September 1998Flag of Costa Rica.svg  Costa Rica 1–02–0
20.2–0
21.23 June 1999 Landover, United StatesFlag of Norway.svg  Norway 1–11–7 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup
22.26 June 1999 East Rutherford, United StatesFlag of Russia.svg  Russia 1–21–4
23.24 June 2000 Foxborough, United StatesFlag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 4–34–3 2000 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup
24.26 June 2000 Hershey, United StatesFlag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1–22–3
25.2–3
26.28 June 2000 Louisville, United StatesFlag of Guatemala.svg  Guatemala 7–012–0
27.9–0
28.1 July 2000Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1–31–4
29.3 July 2000Foxborough, United StatesFlag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1–11–2
30.11 March 2001 Lagos, Portugal Flag of the United States.svg  United States 1–03–0 2001 Algarve Cup
31.3–0
32.3 October 2002 Vancouver, CanadaFlag of Haiti.svg  Haiti 1–011–1 2002 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup
33.4–1
34.6–1
35.1 November 2002Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica 2–09–0
36.3 November 2002Flag of Costa Rica.svg  Costa Rica 1–03–0
37.2–0
38.9 November 2002 Pasadena, United StatesFlag of the United States.svg  United States 1–11–2 ( a.e.t. )
39.24 September 2003 Columbus, United StatesFlag of Argentina.svg  Argentina 1–03–0 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup
40.2 October 2003 Portland, United StatesFlag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1–01–0
41.26 February 2004 Heredia, Costa Rica Flag of Jamaica.svg  Jamaica 2–06–0 2004 CONCACAF Women's Pre-Olympic Tournament
42.5 March 2004Flag of Costa Rica.svg  Costa Rica 2–04–0
65.23 February 2006 Aguascalientes, MexicoFlag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 2–13–1Friendly
66.4 March 2006Vancouver, CanadaFlag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 1–03–1
67.2–0
68.25 June 2006Toronto, CanadaFlag of Italy.svg  Italy 2–02–1
69.18 July 2006 Blaine, United StatesFlag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 1–?4–2
70.2–?
71.4–1

Personal life

She is the sister of Lyndon Hooper, also a former Canadian soccer player, and Ian Hooper, the Director of Business Operations for the Ottawa Champions Baseball Club. She is from Nepean, Ontario. She married Chuck Codd in 2002, a former University soccer coach. They have a daughter.

In 2014, she and her husband were featured on the show Fixer Upper as they selected and renovated their home, which ultimately became a child care center and eventually an Airbnb. [15] [16]

Career statistics

Club

These statistics are incomplete and currently represent a portion of Hooper's career.

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeagueOtherTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
FK Donn 1993 [9] 1. divisjon 1317001317
FK Donn total1317001317
Atlanta Beat 2001 [17] [18] WUSA 1912212113
2002 [19] [18] WUSA1911102011
2003 [18] WUSA2111222313
Atlanta Beat total5934536437
Chicago Cobras 2004 [20] USL W-League 410041
Chicago Cobras total410041
New Jersey Wildcats 2006 [21] USL W-League 340034
New Jersey Wildcats total340034
Career total7956538459

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