Sharon Black

Sharon Black
Personal information
Full name	Sharon Lee Black
Date of birth	4 April 1971 (age 53)
Place of birth	Adelaide, Australia
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder, Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team
	Birkalla
	Sturt Marion
	SASI Pirates
	Fortuna Hjørring
2008–2009	Adelaide United
International career‡
1991–2002	Australia
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20:06, 12 January 2014 (UTC); ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 20:06, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Sharon Lee Black (born 4 April 1971) is an Australian former soccer player who played national league football in Australia and Denmark as well as representing Australia at the 2000 Olympic Football Tournament and the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. Her last club was Australian W-League team Adelaide United.^[2]

Playing career

Black represented Australia 61 times between 1991 and 2002.^[4]^[5]

She represented the Australian national team at the 2000 Olympic Football Tournament in Sydney and at the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup in the United States.^[5]

In 2013, Black was named in the Football Federation Australia (FFA) Women's Team of the Decade 1990–99.^[6]

Scores and results list Australia's goal tally first.

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	9 October 1998	Auckland, New Zealand	American Samoa	6–0	21–0	1998 OFC Women's Championship
2.				13–0
3.				18–0
4.				20–0
5.	11 October 1998		Papua New Guinea	1–0	8–0
6.				2–0
7.				3–0
8.	15 October 1998		Fiji	5–0	17–0
9.				7–0
10.				12–0
11.	7 June 2000	Newscastle, Australia	New Zealand	1–0	4–0	Friendly
12.				2–0
13.				4–0
14.	19 January 2002	Bendigo, Australia	South Korea	3–1	4–1	2002 Australia Cup

^ "Sharon Black". Australian Sports Commission. Archived from the original on 19 January 2000. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
^ "Player profile - Sharon Black". Adelaide United FC. Retrieved 3 April 2009.
^ Cockerill, Michael (29 April 2004). "Australian pair breaks new ground in Europe". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 9 May 2017.
^ "Official Media Guide of Australia at the FIFA Women's World Cup Germany 2011" (PDF). Football Federation Australia. 8 July 2011. p. 53. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
^ ^a ^b "Matildas call it a day". Illawarra Mercury. 28 December 2002. Retrieved 9 May 2017.
^ "Teams of the Decades - Women's 1990–1999". Football Federation Australia. 21 December 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2017.

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