Walker Loseno

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|name = Amalia Loseno

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|fullname = Walker Amiel Loseno{{cite news |last=Levesque |first=John |url=https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Renton-girl-embarks-on-big-fat-Greek-Olympic-1148611.php |title=Renton girl embarks on big fat Greek Olympic adventure |work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer |date=2 July 2004 |access-date=12 February 2022}}{{cite web |url=https://www.canadasoccer.com/national-teams/matches/national-team-match-past/?matchId=657 |title=Women's National Team vs Greece (March 20, 2003) |work=Canadian Soccer Association |access-date=12 February 2022}}

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1982|1|12|df=yes}}{{Olympedia}}

|birth_place = New York City, New York, U.S.

|height = {{height|ft=5|in=5}}

|position = Midfielder

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|youthclubs1 = FC Royals Soccer Club

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|youthclubs2 = Kentridge Chargers

|collegeyears1 = 2001–2004

|college1 = Gonzaga Bulldogs

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|nationalyears1 = 2004

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|nationalcaps1 = 23 {{tooltip|(?)|Before the 2004 Summer Olympics}}

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Walker Amiel Loseno (born 12 January 1982), known in Greece as Amalia Loseno ({{langx|el|Αμαλία Λοσένο}}), is an American-born Greek retired footballer who played as a midfielder. She has been a member of the Greece women's national team.

College career

Loseno has attended the Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington.{{cite news|url=https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/womensolympic/athens2004/teams/team=1884896/index.html |title=Olympic Women's Football Tournaments Athens 2004 – Squad List: Greece (GRE) |publisher=FIFA |accessdate=2 October 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906013026/http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/womensolympic/athens2004/teams/team%3D1884896/index.html |archivedate=6 September 2015 |df=dmy-all }}

International career

Loseno began playing for the Greece in January 2003, after coming across a notice on a women's football website that the Greek national team was looking for players. She represented the country at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Personal life

Loseno was born to Susan Johnson ({{nee|Haldezos}}) and David Loseno, and is named after the photographer Walker Evans. Though born in the United States, Amalia was able to obtain Greek citizenship in 2004 through her great-grandparents on her mother's side, who emigrated to the United States from Plomari. She holds Greek citizenship under her baptismal name, Amalia.{{cite news |last=Reid |first=Scott M. |url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2004/aug/12/olympic-opportunity/ |title=Olympic opportunity |publisher=Orange County Register |date=12 August 2004 |access-date=12 February 2022}}

References

External links

{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/lo/amalia-loseno-1.html |title=Amalia Loseno |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307224236/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/lo/amalia-loseno-1.html |archive-date=2016-03-07 |url-status=dead}}
[https://web.archive.org/web/20160528232019/http://www.fifa.com/fifa-tournaments/players-coaches/people=215481/index.html FIFA.com]
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Renton-girl-embarks-on-big-fat-Greek-Olympic-1148611.php
http://www.ussoccer.com/stories/2014/03/17/11/36/u-s-olympic-womens-soccer-team-kicks-off-against-greece-tomorrow
http://www.gettyimages.com/photos/amalia-loseno-cat-reddick?excludenudity=true&sort=mostpopular&mediatype=photography&phrase=amalia%20loseno%20cat%20reddick
http://www.gozags.com/sports/w-soccer/spec-rel/072403aaa.html
http://www.gozags.com/sports/w-soccer/spec-rel/031803aaa.html

Category:1982 births

Category:Living people

Category:Women's association football midfielders

Category:Greek women's footballers

Category:Greece women's international footballers

Category:Olympic footballers for Greece

Category:Footballers at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Category:American women's soccer players

Category:Soccer players from New York (state)

Category:Sportspeople from Renton, Washington

Category:Soccer players from King County, Washington

Category:American people of Greek descent