Luka Yoshida-Martin (born 10 April 2001) is an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

er who played for

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in the

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(AFLW).

Early life

Soccer career

Yoshida-Martin started as a soccer player at the age of 8 and was identified at an early age selected as part of the

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academy program. She played junior football with

Brisbane City FC Brisbane City Football Club is an Australian semi-professional football club based in Newmarket, Brisbane, Queensland. Founded in 1952, the club competed in the National Soccer League until the 1986 season where they were relegated back to Sta ...

and

The Gap FC The Gap Football Club is an Australian football (soccer) club from The Gap, a suburb of Brisbane. The club was formed in 1955, and currently competes in Football Queensland Premier League Metro 4. The club's distinctive gold and purple colour ...

. She was selected to represent Queensland in soccer. She attended secondary school at

Kedron State High School Kedron State High School is a Queensland public secondary school which is located in the inner-northern suburb of Kedron in Brisbane, Australia. The school was opened in 1956, to meet the needs of the rapidly expanding North Brisbane populat ...

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. Aged 19, she was signed by

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to play senior football. A serious ankle injury almost put an end to her soccer career and she switched codes, playing both sports.

Switch to Australian rules

Yoshida-Martin began playing Australian rules in 2019 for the

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and was part of the Division 1 premiership team. She also played at

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in the

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. Yoshida-Martin was drafted by with the 53rd pick in the

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AFLW career

Yoshida-Martin played three games in her debut season in 2022 season 6, the first of which came in in the Lions' round 6 game against at

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on 13 February. She did not play an AFLW game in 2022 season 7, and was placed on the inactive list for 2023 after tearing her

anterior cruciate ligament The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is one of a pair of cruciate ligaments (the other being the posterior cruciate ligament) in the human knee. The two ligaments are called "cruciform" ligaments, as they are arranged in a crossed formation. In ...

ahead of the season. She played two further games in 2024, but was delisted at the end of the season. She played five games and scored two goals across her AFLW career.

Statistics

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2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

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References

External links

* 2001 births Living people Sportswomen from Queensland Brisbane Lions (AFLW) players Australian rules footballers from Brisbane {{AFL-bio-2000s-stub