Joanne Peters
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Joanne Elsa Peters | ||
Date of birth | 11 September 1979 | ||
Place of birth | Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia | ||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | ||
Position(s) | Central midfielder | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Northern NSW Pride | |||
New York Power | |||
Santos | |||
Charlotte Lady Eagles | |||
2005 | KIF Örebro DFF | ||
NSW Sapphires | |||
Sydney United | |||
Sydney Olympic | |||
2008 | Newcastle Jets | 11 | (1) |
International career‡ | |||
1996–2009 | Australia | 110 | (28) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 9 March 2009 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 9 March 2009 |
Joanne "Joey" Elsa Peters (born 11 March 1979 in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia) is a soccer player who last played for the Newcastle Jets in the Australian W-League.[1]
Playing career
Club career
After attending the Australian Institute of Sport and the NSW Institute of Sport Peters was signed by Northern NSW Pride in the Australian Women's National Soccer League. She signed with the New York Power in the Women's United Soccer Association.[2] She later had a stint with Brazilian club Santos, becoming the first Australian woman to play professional football in South America.[3]
Peters last played with the Newcastle Jets in the Australian W-League.[4][5]
International career
Peters made her debut for Australia in 1996. She played her last international football match in February 2009 in a match against Italy in Canberra. She had played 110 times for the Matildas, scoring 28 times.[3][6][7][8][9][10][11]
Coaching career
In 2009 Peters was a coach with the Australian under-16 women's national team.[12]
Honours
- Australian Women's Footballer of the Year: 2009[13]
References
- ^ Australian Women's Football
- ^ "Power adds two Australian players". Sports Illustrated. 26 February 2003. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
- ^ a b "Matildas veteran Joanne Peters to retire". The Sydney Morning Herald. 4 February 2009. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
- ^ "Joanne Peters: Full match listing" (PDF). Football Federation Australia. Womensport Queensland. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 September 2009. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
- ^ "Joanne Peters Bio". ESPN Soccernet. Women's World Cup 2003. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
- ^ "Matildas smashed by red-hot Italy". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
- ^ "FIFA Century Club" (PDF). FIFA. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
- ^ "FIFA Player Statistics: Joanne Peters". FIFA. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
- ^ "2009 Sport Achievement Awards". Australian Institute of Sport. Archived from the original on 3 March 2012. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
- ^ "For the love of God and the game". Sydney Anglicans. 5 June 2006. Archived from the original on 7 January 2011. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
- ^ Lowe, David (3 February 2009). "David Lowe: Departing champions set standard". The Newcastle Herald. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
- ^ "Project Future's Peters assists U-16s". AFC U-16 Women’s Championship 2009. The Asian Football Confederation. Retrieved 11 May 2010. [dead link]
- ^ "Schwarzer scoops Aussie award". FIFA. 11 June 2009. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
- 1979 births
- Living people
- Australian women's soccer players
- Australian Institute of Sport women's soccer players
- Newcastle Jets FC (W-League) players
- Women's United Soccer Association players
- New York Power players
- Expatriate women's footballers in Brazil
- FIFA Century Club
- New South Wales Institute of Sport alumni
- Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States
- Australian expatriate sportspeople in the United States
- 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- Olympic soccer players of Australia
- Footballers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Australia women's international soccer players
- People from Newcastle, New South Wales
- Women's association football midfielders
- Santos FC (women) players
- Damallsvenskan players
- KIF Örebro DFF players
- Australian women's soccer biography stubs