Joanne Peters
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Joanne Peters | ||
Date of birth | 11 March 1979 | ||
Place of birth | Newcastle, Australia | ||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | ||
Position(s) | Central Midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Newcastle Jets | ||
Number | 10 | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Northern NSW Pride | |||
New York Power | |||
Santos | |||
Charlotte Lady Eagles | |||
NSW Sapphires | |||
Sydney United | |||
Sydney Olympic | |||
2008–present | 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 Peters (born 11 March 1979 in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia) is a female football (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 she 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. Peters 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". Sydney Morning Herald. 4 February 2009. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
- ^ "Joanne Peters: Full match listing" (PDF). Football Federation Australia. Womensport Queensland. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
- ^ "Joanne Peters Bio". Women's World Cup 2003. ESPN Soccernet. 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. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
- ^ "For the love of God and the game". Sydney Anglicans. 5 June 2006. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
- ^ Lowe, David (3 February 2009). "David Lowe: Departing champions set standard". The 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.
- Use dmy dates from September 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
- Australian women's soccer biography stubs