Martina Franko
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Martina Marie Franko (Template:Nee; born January 13, 1976) is a Canadian former soccer player who played defender.
Career
Franko performs a versatile role, and can play as either a midfielder or forward. She has been a regular on Surrey United women's premier division team playing in the British Columbia-based Metro Women's Soccer League for the past two years. The MWSL plays in the winter so no major conflict with summer leagues such as W-League.[1]
In her club career, Franko has won two W-League titles with the Vancouver Whitecaps, in 2004 and 2006.[2] After one year for Los Angeles Sol in the Women's Professional Soccer League turned on April 1, 2010 back to her former club Vancouver Whitecaps.[3]
International career
Franko won her first cap for Canada in 2005, aged 29. She scored her first goal on her second cap, against Germany, in a 4–3 loss.[2] At the 2007 Pan American Games, she helped the team achieve a bronze medal in the soccer competition;[2] later that year, she played in her first major, FIFA affiliated tournament with the Canada team, the 2007 World Cup, where she played all three group stage matches, scoring one goal, before the team was knocked out.[4] She also competed for the team at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Personal life
She moved to Squamish, British Columbia, home of her husband John, in 2003.[5]
Her parents, Dana Holanová and Jaromír Holan, were the Czechoslovak national champions in ice dancing in the 1960s.[6]
Coaching career
In January 2008, Franko joined Quest University Canada as head coach of the varsity women's soccer team.[7]
Franko, also a Canadian National B licensed coach, served as an assistant coach for the Tigers during the 1998 season after receiving her bachelor's degree in psychology.
Honours
Vancouver Whitecaps FC
- USL W-League championship
Individual
References
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External links
- Official site
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- 1976 births
- Living people
- Soccer players from Cincinnati
- Colorado College Tigers women's soccer players
- Naturalized citizens of Canada
- Canadian people of Czech descent
- Canadian women's soccer players
- Canada women's international soccer players
- Canadian expatriate sportspeople in the United States
- Women's association football midfielders
- Women's association football forwards
- Vancouver Whitecaps FC (women) players
- Footballers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic soccer players for Canada
- Los Angeles Sol players
- Pan American Games soccer players for Canada
- USL W-League (1995–2015) players
- California Storm players
- Women's Premier Soccer League players
- 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- Footballers at the 2007 Pan American Games
- College women's soccer coaches in the United States
- Women's Professional Soccer players
- Pan American Games bronze medalists for Canada
- Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games bronze medalists in football
- 21st-century Canadian sportswomen