Kristyn Swaffer

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Kristyn Swaffer
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Kristyn Swaffer (2008)
Personnel
birthday December 13, 1975
place of birth Adelaide ,  Australia
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
Metrostars
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
Cumberland
Sturt Marion
South Australia Sports Institute
Canberra Eclipse
2008-2009 Adelaide United 10 (1)
Cumberland United
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1996-2003 Australia 30 (1)
1 Only league games are given.

Kristyn Swaffer (born December 13, 1975 in Adelaide ) is a former Australian soccer player .

Career

Kristyn Swaffer was born on December 13, 1975 in Adelaide, the capital of the Australian state of South Australia. Already in her childhood and youth she was active as a soccer player and as such was elected to the All Australian Schoolgirls Team Football (Soccer) in 1990. She was also a member of the All Australian Schoolgirls Touring Team Football (Soccer) that year . Swaffer not only represented her home country as a school girl, she was also used for the U-16 team in Australia. At club level, she appeared for Cumberland , Sturt Marion , the South Australia Sports Institute and Canberra Eclipse , among others . In 1996, the then 20-year-old, who at the time was active at the South Australia Sports Institute and represented it in the Women's National Soccer League (WNSL), made her debut for the Australian senior women's team . With her home country she took part in the 1999 World Cup in the United States . However, as they did four years earlier, Australia failed again in the group stage and ended the tournament early with the elimination as third in Group D.

For the Matildas , the nickname of the team, she completed 30 international matches by 2003 and scored one goal. After she had not played enough minutes as a substitute player three days earlier in the 2-0 win over Mexico , she completed the last international match of her career on February 1, 2003 in a 3-1 defeat against Sweden . With this defeat, the Australians finished second in the Australia Cup behind the Swedes . At the time of her departure from the national team, Swaffer was playing for Canberra Eclipse in the WNSL. When the Australian W-League started in 2008 and the women's football department of Adelaide United , established for this purpose, took part, Swaffer represented her hometown until 2009 in what is now the top division of Australian women's football. The Swaffer, acting as vice- team captain , had ten championship appearances and one hit. This she achieved on December 27, 2008 in a 2: 3 away defeat against Sydney FC .

After that, she largely withdrew from the sport as an active player and now only appears on the amateur or semi-professional level for Cumberland United in the National Premier Leagues . Today she still often comes to schools or youth football teams and talks about football and her career.

Her individual successes as active players include five votes for SAWSA Player of the Year , four votes for Club Best Player , two votes for Top SAWSA Goal Scorer , three votes for Top Club Goal Scorer , and two votes for Club Players Player of the Year or the elections for the most consistent SAWSA State Player 1995 and the Best Player State Team 1996 .

In 2011 she was elected to the HALL OF CHAMPIONS as a member for OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE , which also meant her election to the Hall of Fame of the Football Federation South Australia . A year before that, Swaffer, who also briefly acted as assistant coach in the W-League, took over the South Australia women's selection team.

Web links & sources

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1990 All Australian Schoolgirls Team Football (Soccer) on the official website of SchoolSportAustralia (English), accessed on September 14, 2018
  2. ↑ All Australian Schoolgirls Touring Team Football (Soccer) on the official SchoolSportAustralia website, accessed on September 14, 2018
  3. ↑ a b c FFSA Hall of Fame inductees - 2011 (English), accessed September 14, 2018
  4. ↑ Proof in the OFFICIAL MEDIA GUIDE OF AUSTRALIA AT THE FIFA WOMEN'S WORLD CUP GERMANY 2011 ™ (English), accessed on September 14, 2018
  5. ↑ Matildas Internationals for 2003 on OzFootball.net (English), accessed September 14, 2018
  6. ↑ Sky Blues stay alive with W-League win over Adelaide , accessed on September 14, 2018
  7. ↑ National Premier Leagues Profile 2014 and 2015 (English), accessed on September 14, 2018
  8. ^ National Premier Leagues Profile 2016 , accessed on September 14, 2018
  9. ↑ WESTMINSTER SCHOOL VACATION CARE ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed on September 14, 2018 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / community.westminster.sa.edu.au
  10. ↑ STINGRAYS TAKE ON SOUTH AUSTRALIA'S BEST , accessed on September 14, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Swaffer, Kristyn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Adelaide , Australia