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Joanne "Joey" Elsa Peters (born 11 March 1979) is an Australian former soccer player who last played for the Newcastle Jets in the Australian W-League.[2] She played for Brazilian club, Santos (2002), becoming the first Australian woman to play professional football in South America. Peters also was one of the first Australians to represent a team in the Women's United Soccer Association in 2003, when she joined New York Power. Internationally she represented Australia as a central midfielder for the Matildas from March 1996 to February 2009 for 110 games and scored 28 goals.[3]

Full name Joanne Elsa Peters[1]
Date of birth (1979-03-11) 11 March 1979 (age 47)
Place of birth Leeton, New South Wales, Australia
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
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Joanne "Joey" Peters
Playing for the Newcastle Jets, 2008
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Full name Joanne Elsa Peters[1]
Date of birth (1979-03-11) 11 March 1979 (age 47)
Place of birth Leeton, New South Wales, Australia
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
Position Central midfielder
Youth career
Leeton United
Sylvania Heights
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Northern NSW Pride
1999–2002 NSW Sapphires
2002 Charlotte Lady Eagles
2002 Santos
2003 New York Power
2005 KIF Örebro DFF
Sydney United
Sydney Olympic
2008 Newcastle Jets 11 (1)
International career‡
1996–2009 Australia 110 (28)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 9 March 2009
‡ National team caps and goals as of 9 March 2009
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Biography

Early years

Joanne "Joey" Elsa Peters was born on 11 March 1979 in Leeton, New South Wales.[4] Her father is a Uniting Church minister.[4] From five years old she played football in a boys team, following her older brother.[4] Peters captained Leeton Public School's team, which won the 1990 New South Wales Primary Schools Girls knockout tournament.[4][5] Her first club, Leeton United Juniors, played in the Griffith District Football Association.[4][5] As a teenager, the family moved to Sydney, where her father was reassigned.[4]

Club career

After attending the Australian Institute of Sport and the NSW Institute of Sport (1997),[4][6] Peters was signed by Northern NSW Pride in the Australian Women's National Soccer League (WNSL).[7] She played for NSW Sapphires from 1999 and won the Julie Dolan Medal for the best player in the WNSL for the 2001/2002 season.[6][8] From August to December 2002 she had a stint with Brazilian club Santos, becoming the first Australian woman to play professional football in South America.[3][4] She signed with the New York Power in the Women's United Soccer Association in February 2003.[9]

Peters last played with the Newcastle Jets in the Australian W-League's inaugural year, 2008–2009.[10][11]

International career

Peters made her debut for Australia in March 1996 in a friendly against New Zealand in Auckland, where she scored her first goal for the Matildas in their 0-3 victory over the hosts.[4][12] At the 1998 OFC Women's Championship, held in Auckland in October, the midfielder kicked four goals in Australia's 17-0 victory over Fiji.[13] For the 2003 OFC Women's Championship she scored another four goals in a game against Samoa (19-0) held in Canberra in April 2003.[14]

She played her last international football match in February 2009 against Italy in Canberra. She had played 110 times for the Australian team, scoring 28 times.[3][15][16][17][18][19] The retiring Matilda had attended three Women's World Cups (1999, 2003, 2007) and one Olympic Games (2004).[20] Peters recalled her fondest international memories, "Personally, scoring a goal in the Athens Olympics against the USA, that drew the game and that's the best result we've had with them. We were playing the Dream Team, if you like. They had the world’s best player, Mia Hamm, and it was their last tournament with that team. From a team perspective, the last World Cup was a definite highlight."[5]

International goals

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No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.24 March 1996Ken Maunder Park, Auckland, New Zealand New Zealand2–03-0Friendly[12]
2.9 October 1998Mount Smart Stadium, Auckland, New Zealand American Samoa15-021-0OFC Championship and World Cup qualifier[13]
3.15 October 1998 Fiji10-017-0
4.11-0
5.13-0
6.16-0
7.16 January 2002Lavington Sports Ground, Albury, Australia South Korea1–01–0Australia Cup[21]
8.6 October 2002SAS Stadium, Cary, United States Russia2–02–0Women's U.S. Cup[21]
9.5 April 2003McKellar Park, Canberra, Australia Samoa1–019–0OFC Women's Championship, World Cup qualifier[14]
10.4-0
11.8-0
12.17-0
13.9 April 2003 Papua New Guinea2–013–0
14.13 April 2003 New Zealand1–02–0
15.4 March 2004Govind Park, Ba, Fiji Papua New Guinea7–010–0Olympic Qualifiers[22]
16.17 August 2004Kaftanzoglio Stadium, Thessaloniki, Greece United States1–11–1Olympic Games[22]
17.29 March 2005Seymour Shaw Park, Sydney, Australia Japan1–02–1Friendly[23]
18.16 July 2005Minyuan Stadium, Tianjin, China China2–12–1Friendly[23]
19.23 July 2005Tokyo, Japan Japan2–02–4Friendly[23]
20.28 November 2005Mingara Recreation Club, Central Coast, Australia China1–03–1Friendly[24][25]
21.28 May 2006Lakeside Stadium, Melbourne, Australia Mexico2–03–0Friendly[26]
22.27 July 2006Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide, Australia Japan2–02–02006 AFC Women's Asian Cup[26]
23.30 July 2006 China2–02–2 (a.e.t.)
(2–4 p)[26]
24.25 February 2007Zhongshan Soccer Stadium, Taipei, Taiwan Chinese Taipei6–18–12008 Summer Olympics qualification
25.7 April 2007BCU International Stadium, Coffs Harbour, Australia Hong Kong5–015–0
26.15 April 2007Zhongshan Soccer Stadium, Taipei, Taiwan Chinese Taipei6–010–0
27.8–0
28.12 August 2007BCU International Stadium, Coffs Harbour, Australia Chinese Taipei5–07–0
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Coaching career

In 2009 Peters was a coach with the Australian under-16 women's national team.[27]

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