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Julie Smith
Personal information
Date of birth 3 October 1973 (age 48)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
1982-??? Stewarton Thistle Ladies
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
-2009 Kilmarnock
International career
1998-2006 Scotland 75 ((???))
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Julie Smith (born 3 October 1973)[1] is a Scottish former footballer who played as a defender. She spent her entire club career at Kilmarnock, and was capped 75 times by the Scottish national team between 1998 and 2006.

Career

Smith joined Stewarton Thistle Ladies at the age of nine, and spent her entire playing career at the club (later renamed FC Kilmarnock Ladies in 1999). She was a member of the Kilmarnock team that won the Scottish Women's Football League title in 2001/02, as well as the inaugural Scottish Women's Premier League title in 2002/03. Smith was also part of the Kilmarnock team that won the Scottish Women's Cup consecutively in 2001 and 2002,[2] before finishing runners-up to Hibernian in 2003. She retired at the end of the 2008/09 season at the age of 35, after Kilmarnock narrowly avoided relegation from the Premier League.

Smith won her first of 75 international caps against Spain in September 1998, and remained a regular in the Scottish national side until her retirement from international football in October 2006. She won her 50th cap in Scotland's 5-1 victory over Ukraine in a Euro 2005 qualifying match at Almondvale Stadium, Livingston.[3] In April 2005, Smith scored a decisive own goal against England at Prenton Park, in a 2-1 defeat for Scotland.[4]

Personal Life

During her playing career, Smith worked as a development scientist in Edinburgh.[5]

Honours

Club

Kilmarnock

References

  1. ^ "Womens Football". thepink2.tripod.com. Retrieved 2021-10-14.
  2. ^ "Scotland (Women) Cups 2001/02". www.rsssf.com. Retrieved 2021-10-14.
  3. ^ UEFA.com. "Scotland-Ukraine | UEFA Women's EURO". UEFA.com. Retrieved 2021-10-14.
  4. ^ "England leave it late". the Guardian. 2005-04-22. Retrieved 2021-10-14.
  5. ^ Fullarton, Clair (2009-06-11). "FC Kilmarnock player Julie hangs up her boots". Daily Record. Retrieved 2021-10-14.

Category:1973 births Category:Scottish women's footballers Category:Scottish sportswomen Category:F.C. Kilmarnock Ladies players Category:Scotland women's international footballers Category:Women's association football defenders Category:Living people


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