Football (soccer)
Ellyse Perry playing for Canberra United in 2009 |
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Ellyse Alexandra Perry | ||
| Date of birth | (1990-11-03) 3 November 1990 (age 22) | ||
| Place of birth | Sydney, Australia | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Sydney FC | ||
| Number | TBA | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 2008–2009 | Central Coast Mariners | 3 | (0) |
| 2009–2012 | Canberra United | 18 | (2) |
| 2012– | Sydney FC | ||
| National team‡ | |||
| 2007 | Australia U-20 | 3 | (2) |
| 2007– | Australia | 18 | (4) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 29 June 2011. † Appearances (Goals). |
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In football (soccer), Perry plays as a defender. She played her first match for the Australian national team, an Olympic qualifying match against Hong Kong at the Hong Kong Football Club, on 4 August 2007. She played this match at the age of 16 years and 9 months, and less than two weeks after her international cricket debut. Perry scored a goal in the second minute of the match as Australia won 8–1.
As of July 2008, she has played eleven matches for the national team, including five in the 2008 AFC Women's Asian Cup, where she scored a goal against South Korea. She has also played three matches for the Young Matildas, the Australian youth team.
Her domestic team was the Central Coast Mariners in the Australian W-League during the 2008–09 season.
Perry made her debut against Queensland Roar on Saturday, 15 November 2008 after being substituted on for team-mate Lyndsay Glohe. She then went on to play another 2 games, also off the bench.
Perry left the Central Coast Mariners and began playing for Canberra United at the start of the 2009 W-League season.
At the annual Westfield W-League awards dinner in 2009, Perry was jointly awarded the Young Player of the Year Award with Brisbane Roar's Elise Kellond-Knight and won three club awards for the season – the Player's, Supporter's and overall Club player of the year.
Perry was selected in the Matildas squad for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup in Germany. In the Norway vs Australia group game, Perry came on as a late substitute, and thus became the first Australia woman to represent Australia at a senior World Cup in two different sports, namely cricket and association football. Perry was in the starting line-up for the quarter final against Sweden in which she scored Australia's only goal in the 3–1 loss.
After being given an ultimatum by Canberra United to either quit cricket or find another W-League club in May 2012, Perry signed with Sydney FC for the 2012–13 season. Perry noted that Sydney FC was a better fit, as her cricket and university studies were both based in Sydney.
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