Cheryl Salisbury

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Cheryl Salisbury
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Salisbury with Australia in 2009
Personal information
Full name Cheryl Ann Salisbury [1]
Date of birth (1974-03-08) 8 March 1974 (age 50)
Place of birth Newcastle, Australia
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Centre Back
Youth career
Lambton
AIS
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1995–1996 Panasonic Bambina
1997 Takarazuka Bunnys
2002 Memphis Mercury
2003 New York Power 13 (3)
2008–2010 Newcastle Jets 7 (1)
International career
1994–2009 Australia [2] 151 (38)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 9 March 2009
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 3 July 2011

Cheryl Ann Salisbury (born 8 March 1974) is an Australian former association football player. She represented Australia internationally as a defender from 1994 until 2009, winning 151 caps.

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Biography

She most recently played as a defender for the New York Power in the WUSA and for the Newcastle United Jets in the W-League. She went on to become coach of the Broadmeadow Magic team in the Northern NSW Herald Women's Premier League competition.[ citation needed ]

Salisbury was captain[ when? ] of the Australian female national team, the Matildas. She is Australia's 3rd highest female international goalscorer of all time with 38 goals in representative fixtures, behind Lisa De Vanna on 47 and Kate Gill 41. Salisbury became only the second Australian female to play 100 A-internationals[ citation needed ], which she achieved during the 2004 Summer Olympics – in the 1–1 draw against USA. In 1999, Salisbury and 12 teammates posed for a nude calendar photoshoot to raise money for the national women's football team.[ citation needed ]

On 27 January 2009, she announced she would retire after the game against Italy at Parramatta Stadium. The game finished as a 2–2 draw, with Salisbury scoring a penalty. The veteran of 151 international appearances received a standing ovation as she was substituted with six minutes remaining. [3]

In 2009, Salisbury was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame, in the Hall of Champions category. [4]

In 2017, Salisbury was awarded the Alex Tobin Medal by the PFA. [5]

In 2019, it was announced that she would become the first women's footballer to be inducted into Sport Australia Hall of Fame. [6]

Honours

Country

Australia

International goals

Scores and results list Australia's goal tally first.
No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.16 October 1994 Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea Flag of Papua New Guinea.svg  Papua New Guinea ?–07–0 1994 OFC Women's Championship
2.?–0
3.19 October 1994Flag of Papua New Guinea.svg  Papua New Guinea ?–04–0
8.24 August 1997 Tallinn, Estonia Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia 1–15–1Friendly
9.4–1
10.19 November 1997 Newcastle, AustraliaFlag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 2–02–0
11.9 October 1998 Auckland, New ZealandFlag of American Samoa.svg  American Samoa 4–021–0 1998 OFC Women's Championship
12.10–0
13.14–0
14.17–0
15.19–0
16.11 October 1998Flag of Papua New Guinea.svg  Papua New Guinea 5–08–0
17.6–0
18.7–0
19.15 October 1998Flag of Fiji.svg  Fiji 17–017–0
20.8 January 1999 Sydney, AustraliaFlag of Italy.svg  Italy 1–11–1 ( a.e.t. ) (3–4 p) 1999 Australia Cup
21.13 January 1999 Canberra, AustraliaFlag of Italy.svg  Italy 1–01–0
22.26 June 1999 East Rutherford, United States Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1–21–3 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup
23.31 October 1999 Xiamen, China Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 2–42–4Friendly
24.16 September 2000Sydney, AustraliaFlag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 1–11–1 2000 Summer Olympics
25.11 January 2001 Coffs Harbour, AustraliaFlag of France.svg  France 2–02–1 2001 Australia Cup
26.9 April 2003Canberra, AustraliaFlag of Papua New Guinea.svg  Papua New Guinea 3–013–0 2003 OFC Women's Championship
27.12–0
28.6 September 2003 Livingston, ScotlandFlag of Scotland.svg  Scotland 1–01–0Friendly
29.1 February 2005 Quanzhou, ChinaFlag of Russia.svg  Russia 5–05–0 2005 Four Nations Tournament
30.25 May 2006 Melbourne, AustraliaFlag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 2–12–1Friendly
31.7 April 2007Coffs Harbour, AustraliaFlag of Hong Kong.svg  Hong Kong 14–015–0 2008 Summer Olympics qualification
32.15–0
33.15 April 2007 Taipei, Taiwan Flag of Chinese Taipei (Olympics; 1986-2010).svg  Chinese Taipei 9–010–0
34.20 September 2007 Chengdu, ChinaFlag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 2–22–2 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup
35.5 March 2008 Sunshine Coast, AustraliaFlag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand 2–24–2Friendly
36.3–2
37.27 April 2008 Cary, United States Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2–22–2
38.31 January 2009Sydney, AustraliaFlag of Italy.svg  Italy 2–12–2

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