Dame "Tweety" Walters (born 27 December 1976) is a

Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...

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player, currently without a club.

Career

Professional

Walters attended Clarendon College in his native Jamaica, before moving to England when he signed a contract with English lower-league club Leyton Orient. Walters never settled in England, and never played a first team game with Orient, returning home to Jamaica to play for

Tivoli Gardens Tivoli Gardens, also known simply as Tivoli, is an amusement park and pleasure garden in Copenhagen, Denmark. The park opened on 15 August 1843 and is the third-oldest operating amusement park in the world, after Dyrehavsbakken in nearby Klampe ...

in the Jamaica National Premier League in 2002. He won the JNPL title with Tivoli in 2003/2004. Walters moved to the United States in 2006, and played 16 games with the

Atlanta Silverbacks U23's Atlanta Silverbacks U23’s was an American soccer team based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Founded in 2006, the team played in the USL Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, until 2008, when the fr ...

as an over-age player in the

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, before moving onto the senior

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team the following year. He was released by the Silverbacks at the end of the season, and subsequently signed with the

Wilmington Hammerheads Wilmington Hammerheads FC was a semi-professional American soccer team based in Wilmington, North Carolina. Founded in 1996, the team last competed in the Premier Development League, the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid in 2017. History ...

in the

USL Second Division The USL Second Division (commonly referred to as USL-2) was a professional men's soccer league in the United States, operated by United Soccer Leagues (USL). It was at the third tier of soccer in the United States, behind Major League Soccer ( ...

in 2008, where he was named to the USL2 All-League Second Team. He re-signed for the Hammerheads in 2009.

Honors

Wilmington Hammerheads

Regular Season Champions (1):

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References

External links

Wilmington Hammerheads bio
{{DEFAULTSORT:Walters, Dame 1976 births Living people Atlanta Silverbacks FC players Atlanta Silverbacks U23's players Leyton Orient F.C. players USL First Division players USL Second Division players Wilmington Hammerheads FC players Tivoli Gardens F.C. players USL League Two players Men's association football defenders Jamaican men's footballers Jamaican expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States Sportspeople from Clarendon Parish, Jamaica