Cindy Parlow Cone

Quick Facts

Full Name	Cindy Parlow Cone
Occupation	Association Football Player
Date Of Birth	May 8, 1978(1978-05-08)
Age	46
Birthplace	Memphis
Country	United States
Birth City	Tennessee
Horoscope	Taurus

Cindy Parlow Cone Biography

Cindy Parlow Cone is one of the most popular and richest Association Football Player who was born on May 8, 1978 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Cynthia Marie Parlow Cone (born May 8th 1978) born May 8, 1978, also known as Cynthia Parlow, is an American soccer executive and president of the United States Soccer Federation. An ex-professional soccer player she was double Olympic Gold medalist, and 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup champion. As the head coach in 2013 Parlow Cone led Portland Thorns FC to clinch the first National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) championship.

In Chapel Hill, Parlow was a four-time All-American and was a key player in helping the team achieve the NCAA Women’s Soccer Championship three times, and the Atlantic Coast Conference regular season four times. She was two-time Hermann Trophy winner in 1997 and 1998 (the second winner with two wins after Mia Hamm). She was awarded the ACC Athlete of the Year in 1999.

Following the success of the 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup, Parlow and her teammates were featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated as the Sportswomen of the Year. In 2005, she was featured in the film, Dare to Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team. In 2008, she was featured in Winning Isn’t Everything, The Untold Story of a Soccer Dynasty, a documentary film about the success of the Tar Heels women’s soccer program and its players. In 2013, she was featured in the ESPN series, Nine for IX: The ’99ers. In 2015, she was featured in HBO’s Real Sports.

After 90 minutes of scoreless regulation time and 30 minutes of sudden death, the 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup Final was decided by a penalty shootout between the U.S. and China. The five American players to take penalty kicks converted while China missed one attempt so that the U.S. won. The final surpassed the 1996 Atlanta Olympic final as the most-attended women’s sports event, with more than 90,000 people filling the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. It held the record until 2014 for the largest U.S. television audience for a soccer match with 17,975,000 viewers. As of July 2015, it ranks third following the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup (25,400,000 viewers) and 2014 FIFA World Cup group stage match between the U.S. men’s team and Portugal (18,220,000 viewers). A week later, the team met President Clinton at the White House and flew with Hillary and Chelsea Clinton on Air Force Two to Cape Canaveral.

Parlow began her training with the U.S. Women’s National Team in March 1995. At the age of 17, she made her debut with the team and also scored two goals during a match game against Russia on January 14th the 14th of January, 1996. Parlow was a part of all six matches of their 1999 World Cup victory, the 1996 2001, 2000, and 2004 Olympics and at the 2002 FIFA Women’s World Cup. She was 18 when Parlow was just the eldest participant to earn the Olympic gold medal as well as the FIFA Women’s World Cup.

Cindy Parlow Cone Net Worth

Cindy Parlow Cone is one of the richest Association Football Player from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Cindy Parlow Cone 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

born to Larry Parlow and Josephine Parlow, Cindy was raised in Memphis, Tennessee, where she went to Germantown High School. When she was thirteen, she attended an autograph signing in Memphis by U.S. national team head coach Anson Dorrance, following that the U.S. won the inaugural 1991 FIFA Women’s World Cup in China. Following the signing she informed the woman she was with, “I’m going to play for that man some day.” After four years she made the decision to finish high school earlier and go to an undergraduate program at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she played for the Tar Heels women’s soccer team that was led by Dorrance. Later, she remarked “I wasn’t really your typical teenager; I was very intense and very focused. I definitely wasn’t an adult when I was 17, but I felt like coming to UNC was a great decision for me in all aspects because I felt like I was fully supported and pushed to become not only a better soccer player but a better person.”

Parlow was the youngest athlete on the American team that competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. The 1996 Olympics were the first time the women’s game (football) was included in the international championship. The team was coached by head coach Tony DiCicco (the team’s former goalkeeper coach from the 1991 FIFA Women’s World Cup) and the U.S. advanced to the final after beating Denmark as well as Sweden and drawing against China at the stage of group match. After beating Norway by a score of 2-1 in the semi-finals, the U.S. faced China for two times during the championship. In the final, which took place at Athens, Georgia, 76,481 fans gathered to see China lose. United States defeat China (a new record in the world for the highest number of people who attend an event for women).

During her senior season, Parlow scored 21 goals, including 7 game-winners, and recorded 11 assists. She was awarded the 1998 Hermann Trophy and 1998 Missouri Athletic Club Foundation Award as the National Collegiate Women’s Soccer Player of the Year. Soccer News Magazine named her Player of the Year. She was awarded the Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Year and named to the All-ACC first team for the fourth consecutive year.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Parlow was one of the twenty Founding Players of the Women’s United Soccer Association (WUSA), the first professional women’s soccer league in the United States, and captained the Atlanta Beat. She led the team to the playoffs in each of the league’s three seasons of operation (2001–2003).

Facts & Trivia

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Parlow returned to the Beat for the 2003 WUSA season. On June 23, she scored a hat-trick against the Philadelphia Charge ending a three-game winless streak. The Beat finished in second place with a 9–4–8 record two points behind Boston. They defeated the San Diego Spirit during the semifinals and advanced for the second time to the WUSA Founders Cup where they faced the Washington Freedom led by Mia Hamm and Abby Wambach. The Freedom won 2–1.

Is Cindy Parlow Cone married?

In 2007, she married John Cone , a former soccer player and coach.

How tall is Cindy Parlow?

5′ 11″

Where is Cindy Parlow?

She is currently the Girls’ Director for NCFC Youth in the Durham-Chapel Hill area. In the summer of 2007, she married John Cone in Chapel Hill. She has a street – Cindy Parlow Drive – named after her in her hometown of Memphis, Tenn.

Who is the head of US Soccer?

About WIll. Will Wilson was named CEO / Secretary General of the U.S. Soccer Federation on March 23, 2020. Wilson, 52, comes to U.S. Soccer with 29 years of vast and diverse experience in the international and domestic sports industry.

Who owns usa Soccer?

The team is controlled by the United States Soccer Federation and is a member of FIFA and CONCACAF. The team has appeared in eleven FIFA World Cups, including the first in 1930, where they reached the semi-finals.