Kara Lang

Kara Lang
Lang in 2009
Personal information
Full name Kara Elise Lang Romero
Birth name Kara Elise Lang
Date of birth (1986-10-22) 22 October 1986 (age 37)
Place of birth Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Position(s) Forward
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2008 UCLA
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2003–2006 Vancouver Whitecaps FC 22 (13)
2009 Pali Blues 3 (1)
2010 Vancouver Whitecaps FC 8 (1)
International career‡
2002 Canada U-19
2002–2011 Canada 92 (34)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 11 April 2013 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 11 April 2013 (UTC)

Kara Elise Lang Romero (born 22 October 1986) is a former Canadian soccer player and current sports analyst, who represented her country in two FIFA World Cups and the Olympic Games, and played club soccer for Vancouver Whitecaps Women. She is the youngest woman to be named to Canada National Women's Team, making her National Team debut on 1 March 2002 at the Algarve Cup in Portugal at age 15.[1] Lang retired on 5 January 2011 at the age of 24 due to recurring knee and ACL injuries.[1] Lang began a comeback in 2013, with her ambition being to help Canada in the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, but suffered a third ACL injury in February 2014, effectively ending her comeback. She now has two sons and a daughter with professional baseball player Ricky Romero.[2][3] She was inducted into the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame as a player in November 2015.[4]

  1. ^ a b "Kara Lang announces her retirement". SIRC. Archived from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
  2. ^ Ewing, Lori (18 October 2013), "Kara Lang poised to rejoin Canadian women's soccer team", The Globe and Mail, retrieved 30 October 2013
  3. ^ Shi Davidi (2015), Romero Says Release By Blue Jays Surprised Him, retrieved 28 April 2015
  4. ^ "Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame announces Class of 2015 | Canada Soccer". www.canadasoccer.com. Archived from the original on 11 August 2015.