Indi Cowie

Indi Cowie
Personal information
Full name Indi Armstrong Cowie[1]
Date of birth (1994-09-24) 24 September 1994 (age 30)
Place of birth Boca Raton, Florida
United States
Position(s) Midfielder / Forward
Team information
Current team
 North Carolina Tar Heels
(assistant coach)
Youth career
CASL
Triangle United
Triangle Futbol Club
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2012 North Carolina Tar Heels
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2011 Celtic
International career‡
2010 Scotland U17[2] 3 (1)
Managerial career
2013– North Carolina Tar Heels
(assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 03:13, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 03:13, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

Indi Armstrong Cowie (born 24 September 1994) is a Scottish American professional freestyle footballer and football coach. She became an assistant coach to Anson Dorrance at the North Carolina Tar Heels when a knee injury caused her retirement from college soccer.[3] Cowie had previously played as a midfielder or forward for Scottish Women's Premier League (SWPL) club Celtic and won three caps for the Scotland women's national under-17 football team.[4]

Cowie was born in Florida to parents from the West of Scotland. She was inspired to take up freestyle football after observing a demonstration by John Farnworth.[5] In 2012 male footballer Lionel Messi picked Cowie as the winner of a global freestyle football competition tied in with the FIFA Street video game.[6] As of 2014, Cowie practices her skills for one to three hours per day.[7] In 2015, Cowie became the first woman to do a three revolution - three full circles around the soccer ball with the foot while it is still in the air.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Indi Cowie". University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
  2. ^ "Indi Cowie". Scottish Football Association. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
  3. ^ McCall, Mike (25 October 2013). "The next chapter: Why freestyle phenom Indi Cowie shelved her NCAA career at UNC". SoccerWire.com. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
  4. ^ Winton, Richard (3 November 2011). "Who's that girl?". The Herald (Glasgow). Retrieved 10 May 2015.
  5. ^ Crothers, Tim (25 March 2011). "A Soccer Phenom Puts the 'I' in Team". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
  6. ^ McIver, Brian (16 July 2012). "Scots freestyle football star Indi Cowie is crowned world's greatest.. by Lionel Messi". Daily Record (Scotland). Retrieved 10 May 2015.
  7. ^ Southwick, Andrew (18 June 2014). "Fifa Street World Freestyler Indi Cowie back on home turf". BBC Sport. Retrieved 10 May 2015.
  8. ^ Barnes, Katie (2015). "Freestyler Indi Cowie Revels in Her Three Revolution". Espn.go.com. Retrieved 2 September 2015.


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