Dame Walters

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Dame Walters
Personal information
Full name Dame Walters
Date of birth (1976-12-27) 27 December 1976 (age 47)
Place of birth Clarendon Parish, Jamaica
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
Clarendon College
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
20002001 Leyton Orient 0 (0)
20022005 Tivoli Gardens
2006 Atlanta Silverbacks U23's 16 (0)
2007 Atlanta Silverbacks 9 (0)
20082009 Wilmington Hammerheads 27 (0)
International career
Jamaica 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 11 October 2009

Dame "Tweety" Walters (born 27 December 1976) is a Jamaican soccer player, currently without a club.

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Career

Professional

Walters attended Clarendon College in his native Jamaica, before moving to England when he signed a contract with English lower-league club Leyton Orient. Walters never settled in England, and never played a first team game with Orient, returning home to Jamaica to play for Tivoli Gardens in the Jamaica National Premier League in 2002. He won the JNPL title with Tivoli in 2003/2004.[ citation needed ]

Walters moved to the United States in 2006, and played 16 games with the Atlanta Silverbacks U23's as an over-age player in the USL Premier Development League, before moving onto the senior Atlanta Silverbacks team the following year.[ citation needed ]

He was released by the Silverbacks at the end of the season, [1] and subsequently signed with the Wilmington Hammerheads in the USL Second Division in 2008, where he was named to the USL2 All-League Second Team. [2] He re-signed for the Hammerheads in 2009. [3]

Honors

Wilmington Hammerheads

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References

  1. "Atlanta Silverbacks". Archived from the original on 21 May 2010. Retrieved 11 October 2009.
  2. "All-League USL-2 Honors Announced". Archived from the original on 21 July 2009. Retrieved 11 October 2009.
  3. "Hammerheads Sign Five Returners". Archived from the original on 17 February 2012. Retrieved 11 October 2009.