Danielle Small

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Danielle Small
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Small playing for Sydney FC in 2008
Personal information
Full name Danielle Margaret Small
Date of birth (1979-02-07) 7 February 1979 (age 44)
Place of birth Sydney, Australia
Height 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
College career
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1999–2001 San Diego State Aztecs
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2008–2009 Sydney FC 10 (1)
International career
1999–2008 Australia 46 (10)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Danielle Margaret Small (born 7 February 1979) is a retired Australian soccer player, who played for Sydney FC in the Australian W-League. [1]

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Small has represented Australia at the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup, the 2004 Olympics, and the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup. She played in the USA Collegiate NCAA Division One Soccer Competition finishing her career at San Diego State University in 2001, studying Exercise Physiology. Previous colleges include University of Mobile, Alabama, and Phillips University in Enid, Oklahoma. Small played two seasons in the U.S. WPSL, representing the Jackson Calypso, Mississippi in 1998, and the Adirondack Lynx, New York in 2006. She completed a degree in Biomedical Science, Forensic Biology at The University of Technology, Sydney in 2010.

Small was married to cricketer Phil Jaques. The couple met in 2000, got engaged in 2004 and were married from 2006 to 2009. [2]

International goals

No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.23 February 2007 Zhongshan Soccer Stadium, Taipei, Taiwan Flag of Uzbekistan.svg  Uzbekistan 4–010–0 2008 Summer Olympics qualification
2.25 February 2007Flag of Chinese Taipei (Olympics; 1986-2010).svg  Chinese Taipei 7–18–1
3.7 April 2007 Coffs Harbour International Stadium, Coffs Harbour, Australia Flag of Hong Kong.svg  Hong Kong 10–015–0

Notes

  1. "Football Australia Profile". Archived from the original on 27 May 2011. Retrieved 6 January 2009.
  2. Badel, Peter (6 December 2009). "Jacques has unfinished business". The Sunday Telegraph . Retrieved 31 January 2012.


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