Emma Jillian Kete (born 1 September 1987) is a New Zealand

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who most recently played as a

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for

Canberra United Canberra United Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in the southern Canberra suburb of Wanniassa, Australian Capital Territory. Founded in 2008 by Capital Football, the club was an inaugural member of the W-League and t ...

and the New Zealand national team.

Club career

Kete joined

Ottawa Fury Women Ottawa Fury Women was a Canadian women's soccer team based in Ottawa, Ontario. Founded in 2000, the team was a member of the United Soccer Leagues USL W-League, the second tier of women's soccer in the United States and Canada. The team competed i ...

in July 2009, playing alongside fellow Kiwis

Amber Hearn Amber Liarnie Rose Hearn (born 28 November 1984) is a New Zealand association footballer who plays as a forward for Spanish club EDF Logroño and the New Zealand women's national team, making her senior international debut in a 2–0 loss to A ...

Hayley Moorwood Hayley Rose Bowden (née Moorwood; born 13 February 1984) is a women's association footballer who has represented New Zealand at international level. Club career In 2003 and 2004, Bowden played varsity soccer for Southwest Baptist University ...

and

Ria Percival Ria Dawn Percival (born 7 December 1989) is a New Zealand professional women's footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Tottenham Hotspur in the FA WSL and the New Zealand national team. She previously played for FFC Frankfurt and F ...

at the Canadian W-League club. She signed for

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club PK-35 Vantaa in September 2011. With PK-35 she won her first trophy by winning the

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. She then played at Canberra United, and won the W-League with them. After the season she transferred to

Sydney FC Sydney Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Sydney, New South Wales. It competes in the country's premier men's competition, A-League Men, under licence from Australian Professional Leagues (APL). The club was fo ...

, who then won the W-League as well. In 2013, she transferred to German side

SC 07 Bad Neuenahr SC 07 Bad Neuenahr was a German football club from Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate. The best-known section within the club was its women's football team, which was founded in 1969 and won the German Championship in 1978. ''Sportclub ...

. In early 2014 she then moved on to her first American team, signing with

Western New York Flash The Western New York Flash (WNY Flash) was an American soccer club based in Elma, New York that competed in the United Women's Soccer league. They have won league championships in four different leagues: the USL W-League in 2010, Women's Profess ...

. She appeared only in three games. She then moved in July 2014 to join newcomers to the

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in England,

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. She re-joined

in September 2015.

International career

Kete travelled with the New Zealand U20 national team side to the 2006 Women's U-20 World Cup in Russia, making a late substitute appearance in their opening game against

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. Kete made her debut with the senior national team against

on 4 February 2007. She was included in the New Zealand squad for the

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, starting in each of New Zealand's group games against

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(2–2),

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(1–0 loss) and

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(4–0 loss). She was part of New Zealand's squad at the

2015 FIFA Women's World Cup The 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup was the seventh FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international soccer championship contested by the women's national teams of the member associations of FIFA. The tournament was hosted by Canada for the ...

in Canada.

Personal life

Emma was married to England footballer

Jodie Taylor Jodie Lee Taylor (born 17 May 1986) is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for San Diego Wave of NWSL. She began her club career with local team Tranmere Rovers and had brief spells in her home country with Birmingham City, ...

Honors

PK-35 Vantaa *

Naisten Liiga The Kansallinen Liiga ('National League') is the premier division of women's football in Finland. It was previously called the Jalkapallon naisten SM-sarja ('Women's Football Finnish Championship Series') during 1974 to 2006 and the Naisten Lii ...

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* Naisten Cup: 2011 Canberra United FC * W-League: 2011–12 Sydney FC * W-League: 2012–13 Manchester City * Women's Super League Cup:

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* * 1987 births Living people Association footballers from Auckland Canberra United FC players Expatriate women's footballers in Germany Expatriate women's footballers in England Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States Women's Super League players Footballers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Manchester City W.F.C. players National Women's Soccer League players New Zealand expatriate women's association footballers New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in Australia New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in the United States New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in Germany New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in England New Zealand women's association footballers New Zealand women's international footballers Olympic association footballers of New Zealand Sydney FC (A-League Women) players Western New York Flash players Women's association football forwards 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players LGBT association football players New Zealand LGBT sportspeople Lesbian sportswomen SC 07 Bad Neuenahr players Association footballers' wives and girlfriends Ottawa Fury (women) players USL W-League (1995–2015) players New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in Canada Expatriate women's soccer players in Canada Expatriate women's soccer players in Australia {{NewZealand-women-footy-bio-stub