Christie Rampone
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"Christie Patricia Rampone" is an United States/American professional association football/soccer defender (association football)/defender. She currently plays for Sky Blue FC in the National Women's Soccer League and is captain of the United States women's national soccer team.

Rampone has played in four FIFA Women's World Cup finals and four Football at the Summer Olympics#Women's tournament/Olympics women's football tournaments. She is a 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup champion, and a three-time Gold medal#Olympic Games/gold medalist having won championship titles at the 2004 Athens Olympics, 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Olympics. She has finished no lower than third place in each of the World Cup or Olympic tournaments in which she has competed.

Rampone played in the W-League from 1997 through 1998. She played in two American professional leagues the entire time they were in operation; from 2001 through 2003 in the Women's United Soccer Association/WUSA and from 2009 through 2011 in the Women's Professional Soccer/WPS. In 2009, while playing for Sky Blue FC, she simultaneously served as coach of the club while winning the 2009 Women's Professional Soccer Playoffs, and was named WPS Sportswoman of the Year.

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She's picking it up really well. She's learning from her mistakes right away, and she's willing to learn. She'll sit down with me and ask me questions. She's just got a great attitude.

(It was) something I didn't enjoy.

(It's) huge. For them to train at such a young age is great.

It's hard to get to the level I've gotten to. I've been fortunate and lucky.