1. Mary Virginia Harvey was born on June 4,1965 and is an American retired soccer goalkeeper.
11 Facts About Mary Harvey
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Mary Harvey was the starting goalie for 1991 US Women's National Team which won the inaugural 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup; and a member of the 1996 Olympic Gold Medal team.
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Mary Harvey earned her undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley and her MBA from UCLA's Anderson School of Management.
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Mary Harvey represented FSV Frankfurt of Germany between 1988 and 1991, as well as Hammarby IF and Tyreso FF of Sweden in 1993 and 1994 respectively.
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In 2003, Mary Harvey was hired by FIFA to become its Director of Development, becoming the first woman and first American hired by the international governing body to run a division.
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Mary Harvey was responsible for FIFA's activities to develop women's soccer, futsal and beach soccer, and to oversee FIFA's sports medicine activities.
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In 2008, Mary Harvey left FIFA to return to her native United States to become the chief operating officer for Women's Professional Soccer, the new women's professional soccer league in the United States.
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In 2017, Mary Harvey joined the bid team to bring the 2026 FIFA World Cup to North America.
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Mary Harvey was responsible for writing the United 2026 Human Rights Strategy, the first of its kind for a mega-sporting-event.
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Mary Harvey has served as a sport envoy for the US State Department's Sports Diplomacy Division on several occasions, including missions to Iraq, Jordan, Canada and Mexico.
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Mary Harvey serves as the Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the Green Sports Alliance, an organization dedicated to leveraging the cultural and market influence of sports to inspire sports leagues, teams, venues, their partners and millions of fans to embrace renewable energy, healthy food, recycling, water efficiency, species preservation, safer chemicals and other environmentally preferable practices.