Dianne Marie Alagich (born 12 May 1979) is an

Australian Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal A ...

former

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

player, who last played for

Adelaide United Adelaide United Football Club is a professional soccer club based in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. The club participates in the A-League Men under licence from Australian Professional Leagues (APL). The club was founded in 2003 to fil ...

in the W-League and the Matildas. A defender, she was

capped In sport, a cap is a player's appearance in a game at international level. The term dates from the practice in the United Kingdom of awarding a cap to every player in an international match of rugby football and association football. In the ea ...

86 times, scoring on three occasions. She is 169 cm tall and her weight is 62 kg. She is the younger sister of former

player

Richie Alagich Richie Alagich (born 30 October 1973, in Adelaide) is a retired Australian footballer. Club career Early career Born in Woodville, South Australia, Alagich played representative football for his home state from 1985 through to 1991. He started ...

. On 19 December 2000, she was awarded the

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1979 births Living people Australian women's soccer players Australian Institute of Sport soccer players Adelaide United FC (A-League Women) players Recipients of the Australian Sports Medal San Jose CyberRays players 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup players Olympic soccer players of Australia Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Footballers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Australia women's international soccer players Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States Australian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Soccer players from Adelaide Women's association football defenders Australian expatriate women's soccer players Sportswomen from South Australia Women's United Soccer Association players {{Australia-women-footy-bio-stub