Rumona Morris

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Rumona Morris
Personal information
Date of birth (1993-06-05) 5 June 1993 (age 32) [1]
Height 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) [2]
Position Midfielder
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
Madang Fox
International career‡
2014 Papua New Guinea 2 [a] (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals
‡ National team caps and goals as of 29 October 2014

Rumona Morris (born 5 June 1993) is a Papua New Guinean footballer who plays as a midfielder. She has been a member of the Papua New Guinea women's national football team.

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Football career

Morris is from Madang. Morris first represented Papua New Guinea in the women's under-15 football team in 2010, and at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games in Singapore. [5] She has captained the Papua New Guinea women's national under-20 football team. [5] As of 2021, she had played for the senior team on 14 occasions. She missed the 2015 Pacific Games due to study commitments. [5]

In 2021 she was awarded the Southern Conference Most Valuable Player award. [6] That year, she returned to the Papua New Guinea squad for their 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification matches. [5]

Rugby career

In March 2014, Morris was named to the training squad for the Papua New Guinea women's national rugby sevens team to contest the Hong Kong Sevens event. [7] She later switched to rugby union. [8]

Personal life

Her father Bob Morris is manager of the Papua New Guinea men's team. [5]

Notes

References

  1. ↑ "Official report_2806_2011". Archived from the original on 30 December 2019. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
  2. ↑ "Play-Off Tournament for the FIFA Women's World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023" (PDF). FIFA . 12 February 2023. p. 1. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
  3. ↑ "Papua New Guinea 0-3 New Zealand". Oceania Football Federation. 27 October 2014. Archived from the original on 27 October 2014. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  4. ↑ "Tonga 0-3 Papua New Guinea". Oceania Football Federation. 29 October 2014. Archived from the original on 29 October 2014. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 PATRICIA KEAMO (24 March 2021). "Morris eyeing return". The National. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
  6. ↑ "Morris dedicates award to team". Papua New Guinea Post-Courier. 2 March 2021. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
  7. ↑ WENDY KATUSELE (6 March 2014). "Soccer's Morris in Palais squad". The National. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
  8. ↑ "Rumona into union". EMTV. 21 March 2014. Retrieved 25 August 2022.


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