Linda "Sunni" Hughes (born 9 June 1968) is an Australian former women's

association football 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 ...

player. She participated in

1995 FIFA Women's World Cup The 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup, the second edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup, was held in Sweden and won by Norway women's national football team, Norway, who became the first European nation to win the Women's World Cup. The tournament fea ...

and

2000 Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, officially branded as Sydney 2000, and also known as the Games of the New Millennium, were an international multi-sport event held from 15 September to 1 October ...

. Hughes played professional club football in Denmark and Japan. In December 2013 she was inducted to Australia's Soccer Hall of Fame.

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Living people Australian women's soccer players Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic soccer players for Australia 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup players Fortuna Hjørring players Australian expatriate women's soccer players Australia women's international soccer players Speranza Osaka-Takatsuki players Nadeshiko League players Australian expatriate sportspeople in Denmark Australian expatriate sportspeople in Japan Expatriate women's footballers in Japan Expatriate women's footballers in Denmark Danish Women's League players 1968 births Women's association football forwards Soccer players from Newcastle, New South Wales Sportswomen from New South Wales 20th-century Australian sportswomen {{Australia-women-footy-bio-stub