Sandra Fruean

{{short description|American Samoan footballer and football official}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Sandra Fruean | image = | caption = | full_name = Sandra Fruean Herrera | birth_name = Sandra Fruean | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1968|8|23}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/oldest-youngest.html|title=Oldest and Youngest Players and Goal-scorers in International Football |publisher=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation|date=|access-date=8 December 2016}}</ref> | birth_place = | height = | position = | youthyears1 = | youthclubs1 = | years1 = 1987–1997 | clubs1 = Renegades | caps1 = | goals1 = | years2 = 1997–???? | clubs2 = PanSa | caps2 = | goals2 = | nationalyears1 = 1998–2007 | nationalteam1 = American Samoa | nationalcaps1 = | nationalgoals1 = }} '''Sandra Fruean Herrera''' ({{nee|'''Fruean'''}}; born 23 August 1968) is a football official and a former footballer from American Samoa.<ref name="fiji">{{cite web|url=http://www.fijifootball.com.fj/tabid/1290/Article/a115bf12-0821-400a-a82f-d5141141838f/language/en-US/Default.aspx|title=Patel Honoured By FIFA Nomination|publisher=fijifootball|date=15 September 2016|access-date=8 December 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927183804/http://www.fijifootball.com.fj/tabid/1290/Article/a115bf12-0821-400a-a82f-d5141141838f/language/en-US/Default.aspx|archive-date=27 September 2016}}</ref> Since September 2016, she has been a member of the FIFA Council. She also is the current Vice President of the Football Federation American Samoa.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.talanei.com/2016/09/25/sandra-fruean-elected-to-fifa-council/|title=Sandra Fruean elected to FIFA Council|publisher=Talanei|date=25 September 2016|access-date=8 December 2016}}</ref>

==Playing career== Fruean is a former national team player of American Samoa. She represented American Samoa in the 1998 OFC qualifier for the FIFA Women's World Cup.<ref name="fiji" /> Two of her children are also former American Samoa national players, daughter Sandra Ivette Fruean-Sopoaga, and son, Ismael D'Angelo Herrera.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.samoanews.com/content/en/sandra-fruean%E2%80%99s-long-soccer-journey-top|title=Sandra Fruean's long soccer journey to the top|publisher=samoa news|date=10 November 2016|access-date=8 December 2016|archive-date=20 December 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220101734/http://www.samoanews.com/content/en/sandra-fruean%E2%80%99s-long-soccer-journey-top|url-status=dead}}</ref> Fruean has attended the FIFA Women's World Cup in Germany and has been a member of the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup since 2012.<ref name="fiji" />

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==External links== * [https://www.ffas.as/sandra-frueans-long-soccer-journey-to-the-top/ Sandra Fruean's long soccer journey to the top]

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