Heather Garriock

Heather Garriock in the dress of the Sydney FC

Heather Garriock ( born December 21, 1982 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian football national team. She is the daughter of a Scot.

Career

Club level

Youth

Garriock began with six years of playing football at Leppington Lions Soccer Club. Later, she played for the Marconi Stallions, NSW Sapphires, and Queensland Sting.

Professional level

In 2006 she moved to the U.S. to the Adirondack Lynx, who played in the Women's Premier Soccer League, the second highest U.S. league. Garriock then played at the Sydney FC, ​​in Denmark at Fortuna Hjørring, in the U.S. at the Chicago Red Stars and Sweden, where they took advantage of that seasons occur in the northern and southern hemispheres in each of those countries in the summer months.

Internationally

For Australia, they played for the first time in October 1999 at the age of 16 years. In 2000 she took part in the Olympic Games in her hometown of Sydney, where Australia but already eliminated in the group stage. In Athens in 2004 it reached Australia the quarter-finals, where they lost against Sweden. In 2003, she won with the Ozeanienmeisterschaft Australia and World Cup qualifiers. 2003 and 2007 she took part in the Australia World Cup tournaments in the U.S. and China, where it was eliminated in the group stage or in the quarterfinals.

On 27 April 2008 she made ​​her 100th international game as the fourth Australian player against the United States.

After she was second at the 2006 Asian Cup with Australia, it reached 2010 for the first title. Thus, at the same time Australia qualified for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2011 in Germany. In the squad, she was the most experienced player with 121 international appearances. At the World Championships she came in all four games of the Australian team for use. The quarter-final match against Sweden, which was lost with 1:3, was her 125th international match. With a total of 11 World Cup matches they have played the second- most World Cup matches for Australia to Cheryl Salisbury ( 12 World Cup games ).

Achievements

  • Master with Fortuna Hjørring and Sydney FC
  • Oceania champions 2003
  • Asian champions in 2010 with Australia.
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