Sue Smith (footballer)
Smith in July 2009
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Susan Jane Smith | ||
| Date of birth | 24 November 1979 | ||
| Place of birth | Prescot,England | ||
| Height | 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) | ||
| Playing position | Winger, Forward | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Doncaster Rovers Belles | ||
| Number | 8 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Rainhill United | |||
| St. Helens | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1994–2002 | Tranmere Rovers | ||
| 2002–2010 | Leeds United | ||
| 2010–2011 | Lincoln Ladies | 14 | (2) |
| 2011– | Doncaster Rovers Belles | ||
| National team‡ | |||
| 1997– | England | 93 | (16) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 31 August 2011. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 23:08, 6 March 2012 (UTC) |
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Susan Jane "Sue" Smith (born 24 November 1979) is an English international footballer who plays for Doncaster Rovers Belles and England. She is an experienced left–sided winger or forward.
Smith played for Tranmere Rovers since she was a teenager, but after years of fielding several offers from top clubs around the country, she signed on for Leeds United (known as Leeds Carnegie from 2008 until 2010) in the summer of 2002.
Following the failure of Leeds' bid to join the FA WSL, Smith signed for Lincoln Ladies in August 2010. In December 2011 Smith joined Doncaster Rovers Belles, who had tried to sign her on two previous occasions. Belles manager John Buckley described the capture of Smith as "a tremendous coup for the club". Smith scored on her Belles debut in a 2–1 FA Women's Cup win at Barnet, but was later carried off with damaged cruciate and medial ligaments. When she was subsequently ruled out for at least nine months, Buckley rued "a disaster for Sue and a disaster for the club."
Smith made her England debut as a 17–year–old substitute in February 1997, scoring in a 6–4 friendly defeat to Germany at Deepdale in Preston. One of her brightest England moments was scoring a hat-trick of tremendous goals in a home friendly against Spain in March 2001.
She has twice won the Nationwide International Player Of The Year award – in 1999 and 2001. In 1999 she was also voted Players' Player of the Year.
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