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Canberra United
Canberra United Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. Founded in 2008 by Capital Football, the club was an inaugural member of the W-League and the only club not affiliated with an A-League Men team. Canberra United currently competes in the A-League Women. Canberra's home stadium is McKellar Park and the club is a two-time champion and three-time premier of the W-League. W-League history 2008–09 season The first announcement of the club came in July 2008, coinciding with the establishment of the new W-League. The formation of the new club presented a unique situation in the league, that it was not associated with an established A-League side. In August, Canberra appointed Matildas assistant coach Robbie Hooker as coach for the inaugural season, and ACT Senator Kate Lundy as club chair. United also announced its first key signing in local Canberran and Matildas goalkeeper Lydia Williams. Hooker ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McKellar Park (Canberra)
McKellar Park, formerly known as Belconnen Soccer Centre and McKellar Soccer Centre, is an association football stadium in the Canberra suburb of McKellar, in Australia. The playing surface is rectangular in shape and is used almost exclusively for association football matches. The venue is the home ground of National Premier Leagues Capital Football club Belconnen United FC and W-League club Canberra United FC. Stadium Facilities The main grandstand is named after Ken Carter, who has been involved in the Belconnen Soccer Club since its formation and contributed significantly to the club's development. The grandstand contains approximately 600 seats, concession area, change rooms, public toilets, storage, moderate corporate areas and press facilities. It has been designed for easy lateral expansion if the need arises. Primary Use McKellar Park is primarily used by Canberra United FC for W-League regular season and finals matches during the summer months and Belconnen U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhian Davies
Rhian Davies (born 5 January 1981) is an Australian soccer player, who currently plays for Canberra United FC in the Australian W-League. National duties She has represented Australia at the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup, 2004 Olympics and the 2006 AFC Women's Asian Cup. International goals Fly in, fly out Davies works in the remote community of Yirrkala, Northern Territory Yirrkala is a small community in East Arnhem Region, Northern Territory, Australia, southeast of the large mining town of Nhulunbuy, on the Gove Peninsula in Arnhem Land. Its population comprises predominantly Aboriginal Australians of the ... and travels over 3,000 km each way to Canberra for every game. References External links FIFA Player ProfileCanberra United FC profile 1981 births Living people Australian women's soccer players Canberra United FC players Olympic soccer players for Australia Footballers at the 2004 Summer Olympics 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kendall Fletcher
Kendall Lorraine Fletcher (born November 6, 1984) is an American professional soccer player who most recently played as a defender for North Carolina Courage of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). Fletcher previously played for the Los Angeles Sol, St. Louis Athletica, and Sky Blue FC in the WPS, Vittsjo in the Swedish Damallsvenskan, Seattle Reign FC in National Women's Soccer League, and Melbourne Victory in the W-League. A former youth and full international, Fletcher played once for the United States women's national soccer team in 2009. Early life Born in Cary, North Carolina, to parents, Gwen and Yates Fletcher, Fletcher has one brother, Eric, and a sister, Preston. She attended Apex High School in Apex, North Carolina where she played center midfield for the soccer team for four years and played two years of varsity basketball as a point guard. In 2002, she was ranked as the nation's sixth best high school senior by Soccer America, was a Parade and NSCAA High ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantel Jones
Chantel Nicole Jones (born July 20, 1988) is a retired American professional soccer player who works as a goalkeeping coach at Canberra United in the W-League. She previously played as a goalkeeper for the professional Icelandic team, Þór Akureyri, Washington Spirit and Western New York Flash of the NWSL as well as Perth Glory and Canberra United in the Australian W-League and the Virginia Cavaliers. College She currently holds the NCAA record for most career shutouts, with 47 during her college career at the University of Virginia. Club career In 2012, Jones played for Þór Akureyri in Akureyri, Iceland. She made 18 appearances for the club, starting all games for a total of 1620 minutes. She wrote about her experience in Iceland for Resolution Sports. In February 2013, Jones was signed to the Washington Spirit for the inaugural season of the NWSL. In July 2014, Jones signed for Canberra United in the Australian W-League. During the Grand Final match on December 21, 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kardinia Park
Kardinia Park is a major public park located in South Geelong, Victoria, South Geelong, Victoria (Australia), Victoria. A number of public and sporting facilities are located in the park: a major Australian Football League, AFL stadium, a secondary football oval, a cricket field, an open air swimming pool, a number of netball courts, various sporting clubrooms, and a senior citizens centre. The park is bounded by Moorabool Street, the Warrnambool railway line, Victoria, Geelong railway line, Kilgour Street, Latrobe Terrace, and Park Crescent. History Kardinia Park was first proclaimed as a public park in May 1872 by the Commissioner of Crown Lands. Then known as Chilwell Flat the new park was 60 acres (24 hectares) in size. Control of the land was vested in the City of Geelong, Geelong, Newtown, and Chilwell councils. 1872 saw Kardinia Park adopted as the name. The park originally stretched north to Kilgour Street until the extension of the Geelong railway line, Victoria, Geel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Canberra Times
''The Canberra Times'' is a daily newspaper in Canberra, Australia, which is published by Australian Community Media. It was founded in 1926, and has changed ownership and format several times. History ''The Canberra Times'' was launched in 1926 by Thomas Shakespeare along with his oldest son Arthur Shakespeare and two younger sons Christopher and James. The newspaper's headquarters were originally located in the Civic retail precinct, in Cooyong Street and Mort Street, in blocks bought by Thomas Shakespeare in the first sale of Canberra leases in 1924. The newspaper's first issue was published on 3 September 1926. It was the second paper to be printed in the city, the first being '' The Federal Capital Pioneer''. Between September 1926 and February 1928, the newspaper was a weekly issue. The first daily issue was 28 February 1928. In June 1956, ''The Canberra Times'' converted from broadsheet to tabloid format. Arthur Shakespeare sold the paper to John Fairfax ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashleigh Sykes
Ashleigh Sykes (born 15 December 1991) is an Australian international football player who last played in 2022 for Canberra United FC of the A-League Women and has previously played for Portland Thorns FC in the U.S.'s National Women's Soccer League and AS Harima Albion in Japan's Nadeshiko League. Early life Sykes grew up in Dubbo, New South Wales. She played for Dubbo SASS, and was also CSSA Athletics champion in 2006. She has a twin, Nicole, who is also a footballer. Playing career Club Sykes joined Canberra United along with her sister Nicole in the W-League whilst still finishing school for the league's inaugural season in 2008–09. She made her debut in Canberra's first match, coming on for Grace Gill in a loss to Newcastle Jets. On 30 November 2008, Sykes scored her first goal for the club – the equaliser in a two-all draw with Perth Glory. Canberra went on to make the Grand Final only to lose to Brisbane Roar, with Sykes playing the second half. Sykes was present ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle Heyman
Michelle Pearl Heyman (born 4 July 1988) is an Australian soccer player and commentator who plays for Canberra United FC in the A-League in Australia. She became the all-time record goalscorer in the W-League in March 2021 after scoring her 73rd goal. Heyman first represented Australia in the Matildas in 2010, playing at the 2014 AFC Women's Asian Cup, the 2015 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics. In May 2019, she retired from international football, but returned to the team in January 2024 when she was called up following an injury to Matildas' striker Sam Kerr. She has previously played for W-League teams Central Coast Mariners, Sydney FC, and Adelaide United, as well as the Western New York Flash in the American National Women's Soccer League. Early life and education Michelle Pearl Heyman was born on 4 July 1988. Club career Heyman began playing at the age of 11 with the Warilla Wanderers. She later played for Port Kembla FC and Shellharbour City befor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viking Park
Viking Park is an 7,000 capacity (1,000 seated) multi-sport stadium located in the Tuggeranong Valley suburb Wanniassa, Canberra, Australia. It has a rectangular playing surface which is used primarily to host rugby union matches but additionally has hosted rugby league, Association football and baseball. It is home to the Tuggeranong Vikings and all matches of the ACTRU Premier Division finals, the Canberra Vikings who compete in the National Rugby Championship and the Tuggeranong Vikings Baseball Club. Viking Park is also regularly utilised by ACT-based Super Rugby club The Brumbies, who use the venue for training and who used to play home matches in the Australian Provincial Championship there. Stadium Facilities The $6 million complex has two fields: a training field and a main field with a 1,000-seat grand stand. State of the art lighting lights up both the main ground and the training ground with the lighting for the main ground meeting TV broadcast requirements and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football Federation Australia
Football Australia is the governing body of soccer, futsal, and beach soccer within Australia, headquartered in Sydney. Although the first governing body of the sport was founded in 1911, Football Australia in its current form was only established in 1961 as the Australian Soccer Federation. It was later reconstituted in 2003 as the Australian Soccer Association before adopting the name of Football Federation Australia in 2005. In contemporary identification, a corporate decision was undertaken to institute that name to deliver a "more united football" in a deliberation from the current CEO, James Johnson. The name was changed to Football Australia in December 2020. Football Australia oversees the men's, women's, youth, Paralympic, beach and futsal national teams in Australia, the national coaching programs and the state governing bodies for the sport. It sanctions professional, semi-professional and amateur soccer in Australia. Football Australia made the decision to leav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Junna
Ray or RAY may refer to: Fish * Ray (fish), any cartilaginous fish of the superorder Batoidea * Ray (fish fin anatomy), the bony or horny spine on ray-finned fish Science and mathematics * Half-line (geometry) or ray, half of a line split at an initial point * Directed half-line or ray, half of a directed or oriented line split at an initial point * Ray (graph theory), an infinite sequence of vertices such that each vertex appears at most once in the sequence and each two consecutive vertices in the sequence are the two endpoints of an edge in the graph * Ray (optics), an idealized narrow beam of light * Ray (quantum theory), an equivalence class of state-vectors representing the same state Arts and entertainment Music * The Rays, an American musical group active in the 1950s * Ray (musician), stage name of Japanese singer Reika Nakayama (born 1990) * Ray (girl group), a Japanese girl group formed in 2019 * Ray J, stage name of singer William Ray Norwood, Jr. (born 1981) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brisbane Roar FC (W-League)
Brisbane Roar Women Football Club, formerly known Queensland Roar Women, is an Australian professional women's soccer club based in Brisbane, Queensland (founded in 2008). The Roar competes in the country's premier women's soccer competition, the A-League Women. History Early years Brisbane Roar (then Queensland Roar) were a founding member of the W-League (Australia), W-League in 2008. The team was initially coached by Wales, Welshman Jeff Hopkins, who had played his football career predominantly in England, as well as representing Wales national football team, Wales at the international level. The playing roster featured a mix of youth and veterans, including founding captain and Australia women's national soccer team, Matilda's stalwart, Kate McShea, and up-and-coming goalkeeper Casey Dumont. Home ground Brisbane Roar plays their home games at Perry Park, Brisbane, Perry Park. Previous home grounds have included the Queensland Sport and Athletics Centre, Suncorp Stadium, A. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
