Julie Smith (footballer)

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Julie Smith
Personal information
Date of birth (1973-10-03) 3 October 1973 (age 51)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
1982-??? Stewarton Thistle Ladies
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
-2009 Kilmarnock
International career
1998-2006 Scotland 75 ((???))
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Julie Smith (born 3 October 1973) [1] is a Scottish former footballer who played as a defender. She spent her entire club career at Kilmarnock, and was capped 75 times by the Scottish national team between 1998 and 2006.

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Career

Smith joined Stewarton Thistle Ladies at the age of nine, and spent her entire playing career at the club (later renamed FC Kilmarnock Ladies in 1999). She was a member of the Kilmarnock team that won the Scottish Women's Football League title in 2001/02, as well as the inaugural Scottish Women's Premier League title in 2002/03. Smith was also part of the Kilmarnock team that won the Scottish Women's Cup consecutively in 2001 and 2002, [2] before finishing runners-up to Hibernian in 2003. She retired at the end of the 2008/09 season at the age of 35, after Kilmarnock narrowly avoided relegation from the Premier League.

Smith won her first of 75 international caps against Spain in September 1998, and remained a regular in the Scottish national side until her retirement from international football in October 2006. She won her 50th cap in Scotland's 5-1 victory over Ukraine in a Euro 2005 qualifying match at Almondvale Stadium, Livingston. [3] In April 2005, Smith scored a decisive own goal against England at Prenton Park, in a 2-1 defeat for Scotland. [4]

Personal life

During her playing career, Smith worked as a development scientist in Edinburgh. [5]

Honours

Club

Kilmarnock

References

  1. ↑ "Womens Football". thepink2.tripod.com. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  2. ↑ "Scotland (Women) Cups 2001/02". RSSSF . Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  3. ↑ UEFA.com. "Scotland-Ukraine | UEFA Women's EURO". UEFA . Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  4. ↑ "England leave it late". the Guardian. 22 April 2005. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
  5. ↑ Fullarton, Clair (11 June 2009). "FC Kilmarnock player Julie hangs up her boots". Daily Record. Retrieved 14 October 2021.


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