Leah Janine Blayney (born 4 July 1986) is an

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soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

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and former player, who represented

Boston Breakers The Boston Breakers were an American professional women's soccer club based in the Boston neighborhood of Allston. The team competed in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). They replaced the original Breakers, who competed in the defu ...

in the American WPS. She played for Australia at the 2004 FIFA Under 19 Women's World Championship and 2006 FIFA Under 20 Women's World Championship. She was the head coach of the

Australia women's national under-20 soccer team The Australian women's national under-20 soccer team represents Australia in international women's under-20 soccer. The team is controlled by the governing body for soccer in Australia, Football Federation Australia (FFA), which is currently a ...

from 2019–2024. Currently she is the assistant manager of the

Japan women's national football team The , commonly known as Yamato nadeshiko, Nadeshiko Japan (なでしこジャパン), represents Japan in women's association football and is run by the Japan Football Association (JFA). One of the two countries to win every FIFA competition an ...

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Auburn Tigers player profile
* 1986 births Living people Australian women's soccer players 21st-century Australian sportswomen Australian expatriate women's soccer players Sydney FC (women) players Boston Breakers players Eskilstuna United DFF players Australia women's international soccer players Women's association football midfielders Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden Australian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Australian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Auburn Tigers women's soccer players Central Connecticut Blue Devils women's soccer players Boston Aztec (WPSL) players Women's Premier Soccer League players People from the Blue Mountains (New South Wales) Women's Professional Soccer players Sportswomen from New South Wales Soccer players from New South Wales {{Australia-women-footy-bio-stub