Cheryl Salisbury

Cheryl Salisbury

Personal information
Full name	Cheryl Salisbury
Date of birth	(1974-03-08) 8 March 1974
Place of birth	Newcastle, Australia
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position	Centre Back (Retired)
Youth career
	Lambton
	AIS
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2008-2010	Newcastle Jets	7	(1)
National team‡
1994-2009	Australia	151	(38)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 9 March 2009. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 3 July 2011

Cheryl Ann Salisbury (born 8 March 1974, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia) is a female football (soccer) player.

Biography

She most recently played as a defender for the New York Power in the WUSA and for the Newcastle United Jets in the W-League. She is the coach of the Broadmeadow Magic team in the Northern NSW Herald Women's Premier League competition(Broadmedow Magic no longer participates in the Herald Women's Premier League)

She was captain of the Australian female national team, the Matildas. She is Australia's highest female international goalscorer of all time with 38 goals in representative fixtures. Cheryl became only the second Australian female to play 100 A-internationals, which she achieved during the 2004 Summer Olympics – in the 1-1 draw against USA. In 1998, Cheryl along with her 12 other teammates, posed for a nude calendar photoshoot to raise money for Australian National Women's football team.

On 27 January 2009, she announced she would retire after the game against Italy at Parramatta Stadium. The game finished as a 2-2 draw, with Cheryl scoring a penalty. The veteran of 151 international appearances was greeted with a standing ovation as she was substituted with six minutes remaining.

In 2009, Salisbury was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame, in the Hall of Champions category.