Personal information | |||
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Full name | Patricia O'Connor | ||
Date of birth | 11 November 1941 | ||
Place of birth | Coventry, United Kingdom | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1965–1968 | Bass Hill | ||
1968–1970 | Prague | ||
1971–1977 | St. George | ||
International career | |||
1975 | Australia | 4 | (2) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Patricia O'Connor (born November 11, 1941; in Coventry, United Kingdom) was the captain of the first Australia women's national soccer team [1] in the mid-1970s. [2] O'Connor was also captain of the St George Budapest Women's Football team which, at that time, had been unbeaten in competitive games in the NSW Women's Soccer competition.
O'Connor migrated to Sydney with her family in 1963. She was the foundation member and also captained the Bass Hill women’s team in 1965. She joined Prague women in 1968 and played for them till 1970. O'Connor, along with her husband Joe O'Connor, was a central figure in the organisation and running of the first Sydney-wide women's soccer league and the National Women's Soccer Championships, the initial inter-state women's soccer state championships in 1974. They also formed the St George women’s team. [3]
O'Connor was also captain of the NSW Women's Soccer representative team during the mid-1970s and captain of the Western Australia Women's Soccer team in 1978.
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