Hope Solo Biography

Hope Solo is an American soccer goalkeeper who is a two-time and . She is regarded as the top female goalkeeper in the world currently holding the U.S. record for most career clean sheets.

From to Hope was the goalkeeper for the United States women’s national soccer team. She has also played for the , and .

Solo received the award for best goalkeeper as well as the award for her overall performance in the .

She was born as Hope Amelia Solo in Richland, Washington, on , to mother Judy Lynn (nee Shaw), and father Jeffrey Solo. Solo learned soccer at a young age from her father, an Italian-American Vietnam War veteran.

Solo had a close relationship with her father although her parents had divorced when she was six years old. Her father was one of the major influences in her life until he died in due to a heart attack.

Hope attended Richland High School, where she played as a forward and scored 109 goals leading her team to three consecutive league titles from . She then enrolled at the University of Washington from where she majored in speech communication.

Solo switched to goalkeeper permanently with the Huskies under the leadership of head coach Leslie Gallimore and former national team player Amy Griffin.

Hope finished her collegiate career as Washington’s all-time leader in shutouts (18), saves (325), and goals against average (GAA) (1.02), and became the top goalkeeper in Pac-10 history.

Following her college career, Hope got selected in the first round of the WUSA Draft by the Philadelphia Charge. She spent most of her first professional season on the bench, however, she got to play the last three games of the season and earned her first professional shutout against the Atlanta Beat.

Solo moved to Goteborg, Sweden, in just six days before the to play for Kopparbergs/ Goteborg. She made 19 appearances in goal for Goteborg in .

In , Hope played for the Olympique Lyonnais in French First Division and made seven appearances for the French club.

On , Hope was allocated to the Saint Louis Athletica as part of the WPS Player Allocation. Solo finished the season with eight shutouts leading the Athletica from the bottom to finish in second place and secured a playoff spot.

Solo was named the WPS Goalkeeper of the year after the season. Solo also became the first goalkeeper to be named U.S. Soccer Female Athlete of the Year (the highest honor awarded to a soccer player in the U.S.).

In , Solo signed with WPS expansion team Atlanta Beat along with her teammates, Tina Ellertson and Eniola Aluka, shortly after Saint Louis Athletica folded.

In , Solo played in 22 WPS matches for both Athletica and the Beat and was league-leader in saves with 104.

Solo signed with the , formerly the , ahead of the Women’s Professional Soccer Season. Solo made four appearances for the club.

Solo then signed with the Seattle Sounders Women on . She played alongside Alex Morgan, Megan Rapinoe, and Sydney Leroux. During her stay, Solo made three appearances for the club with five saves, one shutout, and goals against average were 0.344.

On , Solo along with Megan Rapinoe and Amy Rodriguez allocated to the Seattle Reign FC as part of the NWSL Player Allocation for the inaugural season of the National Women’s Soccer League. However, Reign faced a tough first half when Solo went under wrist surgery. Amy Rodriguez went out for the season due to pregnancy.

After her return, Hope started in all 14 matches in which she played with an average of 1.357 goals and made 81 saves, and tallied 1,260 minutes in goal.

In , Solo was transferred to the English club Manchester City. For the season, Solo returned to the Reign and finished the season with 65 saves in 20 games played and 900 goals against average.

Before joining the national team at the , Solo made eight appearances for Seattle during the season. She finished the season with five clean sheets, 0.63 GAA, and an 81% save percentage.

Before joining the senior U.S. national team in 2000, solo played for U.S junior national soccer team. Hope made her senior debut with an 8-0 win over Iceland at Davidson, North Carolina, in . Hope joined the national team at the in Athens as an alternate . In , Hope became the team’s first-choice goalkeeper. Hope holds the national team record for the longest undefeated streak as a goalkeeper from with 55 games.

In the , Solo was the starting goalkeeper for the United States. Solo was benched by U.S. coach Greg Ryan in favor of 36-year-old veteran goalkeeper Brianna Scurry.

On , Solo was announced as the starting goalkeeper for the U.S. team at the in Beijing. The U.S. women’s team won the gold medal on  by defeating Brazil by 1-0 in extra time.

Solo was named on the U.S. roster for the in Germany despite missing much of the qualifying campaign with a shoulder injury. With her start in the 3-1 semifinal win over France, Solo became the twenty-seventh American woman and second goalkeeper to reach 100 caps.

In the final, the U.S. team lost in a penalty shootout to Japan. However, Solo was awarded the Golden Glove award for best goalkeeper, and the Bronze Ball award for her performance during the game. Solo was also featured in the ‘All-Star’ team of the tournament.

On with the United States Women’s national soccer team, Solo won her second Olympic gold medal. In a match against Japan, Hope made many saves including the 82nd-minute shot save from Mana Iwabuchi which could have tied the game.

In Hope underwent left wrist surgery and did not play for approximately three months. Solo returned to the game in June and the team finished undefeated with a 13-0-3 record.

In , Solo got named on the U.S. roster for the in Canada. During the semi-final match against Germany, Solo used a stalling tactic and made Celia Sasic miss a penalty kick. Solo ended the tournament with 177 international caps and also received the Golden Glove trophy as the best goalkeeper.

On in a friendly match against South Africa, Solo earned her 100th international shutout, 150th career win, and 197th cap that making her the first-ever female goalkeeper in history to achieve 100 shutouts in international competition.

Solo is married to American footballer Jerramy Stevens since . The pair started dating in mid of . Solo and her husband Jerramy are living a happy married life and haven’t shown any sign of having a child. Besides this, there is no information regarding her past affairs, divorce, and boyfriend.

Hope stands 5 feet 9 inches (height) and weighs around 68 kg. Her nationality is American and her ethnicity is White.

Although Solo’s exact income salary is under review, her net worth is estimated at around $2.5 million. She has signed endorsement deals with various companies like Seiko, Simple Skincare, Nike, Blackberry, Gatorade, Ubisoft, and Electronic Arts.

She has also modeled briefly for the cover of Fitness, Sports Illustrated, Newsweek, Seattle Metropolitan Magazine, TV Guide, and Vogue. She has also appeared in various TV shows such as , , , , and .

On , after the London Olympics, Solo released her autobiography . She was also featured in the EA Sports FIFA video games series along with her national teammates.

Hope is also active on social networking sites. She joined Twitter in and is followed by more than 1.18 million fans. She has over 877k followers on Instagram and over 2 million fans on Facebook.

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