Melissa Maizels

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Melissa Maizels
Personal information
Full name Melissa Ashleigh Maizels
Date of birth (1993-05-10) 10 May 1993 (age 31)
Place of birth Melbourne, Australia
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2012–2014 Melbourne Victory 0 (0)
2014–2016 Canberra United 4 (0)
2016–2018 Perth Glory 18 (0)
2018–2019 Canberra United 0 (0)
2019–2022 Melbourne Victory 1 (0)
2022–2023 Melbourne Victory 0 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 6 January 2023

Melissa Maizels (born 10 May 1993) is an Australian soccer goalkeeper who last played for Australian A-League Women team Melbourne Victory. She previously played for Perth Glory and Canberra United. [1]

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Early life

Maizels was born in Melbourne, Australia, and is Jewish. [2] Her great, great, great-grandfather was the Chief Rabbi of Łódź. [3]

She began playing soccer at the age of nine. [4] She represented Victoria four times for futsal and soccer, and competed in national tournaments at the Australian Institute of Sport (from which she earned her coaching UEFA B Licence) as well as in Canberra and Perth. [4] In 2009, she helped the futsal team make the grand final. [4] [5]

Playing career

She played at Melbourne Victory from 2012 to 2014. [3]

Canberra United, 2014–2016

In July 2014, Maizels signed with Canberra United. [6] She made her debut for the club during a match against Adelaide United after the team's starting goalkeeper Chantel Jones was injured. [7] [8] [9]

Perth Glory, 2016–2018

Maizels joined Perth Glory for the 2016–17 W-League season. She suffered a serious hand injury, which ended her season after only six games. [5] Maizels returned for the 2017–18 W-League season as Perth's number one keeper and played every minute of the season. [10]

Canberra United, 2018–2019

Maizels signed with Canberra United for the 2018–19 W-League, returning to the club she had played for from 2014 to 2016. [11]

Melbourne Victory, 2019–2022

Maizels joined Melbourne Victory ahead of the 2019–20 W-League season. [12] Ahead of the 2022–23 A-League Women season, she was released by the club. [13] At the end of 2022, while working as an assistant coach with Melbourne Victory, Maizels was re-signed temporarily as an injury replacement due to an injury to back-up keeper Miranda Templeman. [14] She was included on the bench for the match against Canberra United but was not used, [15] and the following week Templeman returned ending Maizel's contract. [16]

International career

She competed for Team Australia at the 2017 Maccabiah Games in Israel. [3] [17]

Honors and awards

with Canberra United
with Melbourne Victory
with Perth Glory

See also

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References

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  2. ↑ Grunstein, Joel (26 June 2017). "Incredible Maccabiah selection miracle". Maccabi Australia.[ permanent dead link ]
  3. 1 2 3 "A Maccabiah miracle". The Australian Jewish News. 6 July 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 "Melissa Maizels". Soccer Pups. Archived from the original on 1 April 2016. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  5. 1 2 "Perth Glory goalkeeper's inspiring comeback". W-League.com.au. Football Australia. 3 January 2018.
  6. ↑ "Canberra United sign Chantel Jones, goalkeepers on the move". The Women's Game. 24 July 2014. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  7. ↑ Gaskin, Lee (19 October 2014). "Canberra United's title hopes in freefall after Adelaide United stunner". The Canberra Times. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  8. ↑ "Canberra show signs of improvement in win over Western Sydney". The Guardian. Australian Associated Press. 29 November 2015. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
  9. ↑ "Wanderers repeat history against Canberra". Western Sydney Wanderers. 28 November 2015. Archived from the original on 2 April 2016. Retrieved 20 March 2016.
  10. ↑ "M.Maizels". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
  11. ↑ "All of the Westfield W-League signings for 2018/19 so far". W-League.com.au. Football Australia. 30 August 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  12. ↑ "Victory in safe hands for 2019/20". Melbourne Victory. 24 October 2019.
  13. ↑ Downes, Cheryl (13 November 2022). "2022-23 Season Preview – Melbourne Victory". Beyond90.
  14. ↑ Harrington, Anna (31 December 2022). "Victory coach's reaction to Dumont's Liberty A-League heroics". Keep Up. They also had to re-sign goalkeeping assistant coach Melissa Maizels on an injury replacement deal after back-up Miranda Templeman had a spinal injury scare at training on Friday...
  15. ↑ "Melbourne Victory vs Canberra United". Keep Up. 31 December 2022.
  16. ↑ "Women's Match Preview: Round 9 v Glory". Melbourne Victory . 5 January 2023. In: 20. Miranda TEMPLEMAN (returns from injury)
  17. ↑ Desiatnik, Shane (11 November 2019). "Maizels moves home to Victory". The Australian Jewish News.
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