Wendy Owen
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 1954 (age 69–70) | ||
| Place of birth | Slough, England | ||
| Position(s) | Centre back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Beaconsfield | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1970–1973 | Thame Ladies | ||
| 1973–1977 | Dartford College | ||
| Maidstone Ladies | |||
| International career‡ | |||
| 1972–1977 | England | 16 | (0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 21 June 2012 | |||
Wendy Owen (born 1954) is an English former international football defender and coach. She was a member of the England women's national football team in their first official match, a 3–2 win over Scotland in Greenock.
Club career
Owen was born into a sporting family and played representative
In 1968 an "incensed" Owen had to leave the boys' team she had played on when they joined an FA affiliated league.[3] She persuaded her father to form a girls' team in nearby Beaconsfield, who played various other local girls' teams with unregistered referees and on pitches which fell outside the FA's jurisdiction.[4] Underwhelmed with the level of competition, Owen left to join a superior team in Thame near the end of season 1969–70.[5]
International career
On occasions when England's manager John Adams felt Owen had over elaborated he would say: "Wendy, I didn't pick you to play football, you just have to stop the opposition playing, and give it to a white shirt."[6]
During her international career, Owen was mindful of sexist media coverage of women's football. She was asked by photographers to pose applying eye shadow in the Wembley dressing rooms, even though she never used eye shadow.[7]
She was allotted 12 when the FA announced their legacy numbers scheme to honour the 50th anniversary of England’s inaugural international.[8][9]
Coaching career
Owen founded a women's football team at Dartford Teacher Training College, when travelling to Thame Ladies became too difficult.
In spring 1974 Owen was
In January 1987 Owen began working at what became the University of Chester. As of 2012, she was employed as a senior lecturer in Sports Coaching and Pedagogy.[12]
References
- ^ Owen 2005, p. 11
- ^ Owen 2005, p. 12
- ^ Owen 2005, p. 16
- ^ Owen 2005, p. 17
- ^ Owen 2005, p. 18
- ^ Lopez 1997, p. 94
- ^ Williams & Ward 2009, p. 126
- ^ "England squad named for World Cup". The Football Association. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
- ^ Lacey-Hatton, Jack (18 November 2022). "Lionesses introduce 'legacy numbers' for players past and present". mirror. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
- ^ Owen 2005, p. 77
- ^ Owen 2005, p. 75
- ^ "Wendy Owen". University of Chester. Retrieved 24 June 2012.
Bibliography
- ISBN 1-85727-016-9.
- Owen, Wendy (2005). Kicking Against Tradition: A Career in Women's Football. Tempus. ISBN 0752434276.
- Williams, John; Ward, Andrew (2009). "Wembley 1966 and After". Football Nation: Sixty Years of the Beautiful Game. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781408801260.
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