Patricia O'Connor (soccer)

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Patricia O'Connor (born November 11, 1941) in Coventry (UK) was the captain of the first Australia women's national soccer team[1] in the mid 1970s. 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 , along with her husband Patrick O'Connor, was a central figure in the organisation and running of the first Sydney-wide women's soccer league and the initial inter-state Women's soccer state championships.

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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  1. ^ "2001 Hall of Fame Inductees". ozfootball.net. Retrieved 10 May 2014.


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