page_title: Sonia Bompastor
section_title: Professional career
hierarchical_section_title: Sonia Bompastor / Club career / Professional career
caption_attribution_description: Sonia Bompastor of Washington Freedom
context_page_description: Sonia Bompastor is a retired French football player who played for French club Lyon of the Division 1 Féminine. She primarily plays in the midfield position, preferably on the left side. Bompastor can also play in the left back position. She is a two-time winner of the National Union of Professional Footballers Female Player of the Year, and following a move to the Women's Professional Soccer league in the United States, earned Player of the Month and All-Star honors.
  Bompastor began her football career joining US Mer in 1988. In 1992, she joined US Thoury. In the same year, Bompastor earned selection to nationally recognized Clairefontaine academy joining alongside a select group a female players. After her stint at Clairefontaine, she joined Tours EC, now the women's section of professional club Tours FC. In 2000, she joined Division 1 Féminine club ESOF Vendée La Roche-sur-Yon and performed well enough to earn a move to Montpellier. At Montpellier, Bompastor earned domestic and individual honors, which resulted in a move to champions Olympique Lyonnais.
context_section_description: Bompastor's professional career began with ESOF Vendée La Roche-sur-Yon in 2000.  She scored seven goals over her two years with the club before moving to Montpellier HSC in 2002.
  At Montpellier, Bompastor blossomed and scored 38 goals over four seasons while helping the club win league titles in 2004 and 2005, as well as the Challenge de France (women's version of the Coupe de France).
  Olympique Lyonnais was the next destination for Bompastor, for whom she joined in the summer of 2006.  She became an important part of the squads that won back-to-back league titles in 2007 and 2008, and of the squad that won the Challenge de France in 2008.  This gave her six titles in a span of four years, equal to teammates Camille Abily and Élodie Thomis who were also a part of the same Montpellier squad Bompastor previously had played for.
  On 24 September 2008, Bompastor was selected to join the new United States-based women's soccer league, Women's Professional Soccer, after her American playing rights were chosen by Washington Freedom in the 2008 WPS International Draft.  Her Olympique Lyonnais teammate Louisa Necib was also chosen by the Freedom.  In the 2009 Women's Professional Soccer season, Bompastor appeared in 19 games (all starts, 1709 total minutes) and scored four goals with six assists.  Following the conclusion of the season, she was loaned to D1 Féminine side Paris Saint-Germain.
caption: Bompastor playing for Washington Freedom in 2009
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