Melissa Barbieri

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Melissa Barbieri
Personal information
Full name Melissa Anne Barbieri[1]
Date of birth (1980-01-20) 20 January 1980 (age 44)
Place of birth Melbourne, Australia
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)[1]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Melbourne City (player/assistant manager)
Number 23
Youth career
1996–2008 Victoria Vision
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2008 Richmond SC
2008–2011 Melbourne Victory 28 (0)
2011–2012 Newcastle Jets 9 (0)
2012–2013
Box Hill United
 10 (0)
2013–2015 Adelaide United 24 (0)
2015–2016 Melbourne Victory 11 (0)
2016 Taroona
2017– Melbourne City 32 (0)
International career‡
2002–2015 Australia 86 (0)
Managerial career
2016– Heidelberg United (women)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 10 February 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18 June 2015

Melissa Anne Barbieri (born 20 February 1980) is an Australian international soccer goalkeeper who plays for Melbourne City in the A-League Women. She earned over 86 caps with the Australia women's national soccer team and competed at four FIFA Women's World Cup tournaments. Barbieri retired from international football in 2015.[2]

Barbieri was named W-League Goalkeeper of the Year for the 2008–09 and 2013–14 seasons.

Early life and education

Barbieri was a scholarship holder with the Victorian Institute of Sport.[3]

Playing career

In her early career Barbieri was a midfielder until she was 20 years old, when a hamstring tendinitis injury required her to stop playing in the outfield.[4][5] In September 2002 she made her debut for Australia in a game against Canada.

Before the 2007 World Cup Barbieri played 54 games for Australia. She played for Richmond SC, becoming the first female to play in the Australian semi-professional men's league. After gaining experience in the men's league, Barbieri made her debut in goals for the Matildas in September 2002 in a 1–0 win against Canada.

In 2008, she was approached by the US football team, the Boston Renegades.[6] However, the Boston management eventually pursued this no further for the remainder of the season, due to Barbieri's commitments to the Australian national team.[7]

She signed for

W-League
. Barbieri won the Goalkeeper of the year award in that season.

On 19 February 2010, Barbieri was named captain of the Matildas following the 2009 retirement of Cheryl Salisbury.[8]

In May 2015, national

coach Alen Stajcic surprisingly axed Brianna Davey from Australia's 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup squad, a decision criticised in many quarters, recalling resurgent veteran Barbieri for her fourth World Cup.[9]

In July 2016, Barbieri signed a deal to play one game as a guest for Taroona in the Tasmanian Women's Super League.[10]

In November 2017, Barbieri came out of retirement to join

Melbourne City on an injury replacement contract, after one of their goalkeepers Emily Shields broke her wrist.[11]

Coaching career

Barbieri was appointed coach of Heidelberg United's women's team in October 2016.[12]

In July 2018, Barbieri was appointed as an assistant coach of the

Melbourne City W-League team.[13]

In popular culture

Barbieri was on the cover of the

Australian FourFourTwo Magazine along with fellow Matilda's Thea Slatyer, Sam Kerr, Kyah Simon and Sarah Walsh
in June 2011.

Personal life

Barbieri gave birth to her first child, a girl, in 2013.[2]

Career highlights

  • 2013–14 W-League keeper of the year award[14]
  • 2010 Qualified for FIFA Women's World Cup
  • 2010 Captain the Matildas at the AFC Women's Asian Cup which they beat North Korea in penalties to win the competition
  • 2007 Qualified for FIFA Women's World Cup
  • 2006 2nd at the AFC Women's Asian Cup
  • 2005 Four Nations Tour
  • 2004 1st at the Oceania Football Confederation Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament
  • 2004 2nd at the 6th Australia Cup (Brisbane)
  • 2004 Competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens
  • 2003 13th at the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup
  • 2003 Pre-World Cup Tour (China, Great Britain, Canada)
  • 2003 2nd at the 3-Nations International Tournament in Japan
  • 2003 2nd at the Australia Cup
  • 2003 Gained Australian Institute of Sport Scholarship
  • 2002 Canada Series
  • 2002 2nd at the US Nike Cup (international debut vs. Canada with a clean sheet)
  • 2001 First national camp as a goal keeper
  • 2000 Switched to goal keeper position
  • 1997 Selected for a national camp as a midfielder

Honours

Country

Australia

Individual

References

  1. ^ a b "List of Players – Australia" (PDF). Fédération Internationale de Football Association. 6 July 2015. p. 1. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
  2. ^ a b "Melissa Barbieri retirement: Matildas veteran goalkeeper retires from international football". Fox Sports. 24 September 2015. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
  3. ^ "Barbieri set to break the code". AAP/Sydney Morning Herald. 3 March 2007. Retrieved 21 April 2008.
  4. ^ "1v1 with Melissa Barbieri". 27 September 2015.
  5. ^ "Barbieri calls time on Westfield Matildas career". 24 September 2015.
  6. ^ Ritson, John (1 April 2008). "Boston Mad For Barbs". FourFourTwo. Archived from the original on 1 October 2011. Retrieved 21 April 2008.
  7. ^ Cheng, Peng (18 April 2008). "Interview With Melissa Barbieri". Archived from the original on 22 April 2008. Retrieved 21 April 2008.
  8. Football Federation Australia
    . 20 February 2010.
  9. ^ "Matildas omit top scorer Kate Gill from Women's World Cup squad". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 12 May 2015. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
  10. Football Federation Australia
    .
  11. ^ "Melissa Hudson joins Melbourne City as injury replacement". The Women's Game. 2 November 2017.
  12. ^ Turner, David (23 October 2016). "Former Matildas skipper and goalkeeping star named Heidelberg United's new Women's National Premier League coach". Herald Sun. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
  13. ^ Lynch, Michael (18 June 2018). "Victory sign King Kenny, City bring in Rado Vidosic and Kalac". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
  14. Football Federation Australia
    . 29 April 2014.

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Sporting positions
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