Ross Greer (born 23 September 1967) is a retired Australian

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugb ...

. He played for Floreat Athena, Chester City,

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Selangor Selangor (; ), also known by its Arabic honorific Darul Ehsan, or "Abode of Sincerity", is one of the 13 Malaysian states. It is on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and is bordered by Perak to the north, Pahang to the east, Negeri Sem ...

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, Instant-Dict,

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Melbourne Knights Melbourne Knights Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in the suburb of Sunshine North, Melbourne. The club currently competes in the National Premier Leagues Victoria, the second-tier of the Australian soccer league ...

and Leeming Strikers before retiring. Greer's spell playing in

The Football League The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional association football, football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, the league is the oldest such competition in Association football around the wor ...

in England in late 1989 with Chester was short-lived. In four first–team games (two in cup football) he failed to find the net for Chester and scored an own–goal in a 2–0 defeat to

Shrewsbury Town Shrewsbury Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. The team competes in League One, the third tier of English football. The club plays its home games at the New Meadow, having mo ...

. He was not awarded a long–term contract. In 1995, Greer was capped three times for the

Hong Kong national football team The Hong Kong national football team () represents Hong Kong in international football and is controlled by the Hong Kong Football Association, the governing body for football in Hong Kong. Hong Kong was the first in Asia to hold the AFC Asian ...

. He also played briefly for the

Hong Kong national cricket team The Hong Kong national cricket team is the team that represents independent Hong Kong in international competition. It played its first match in 1866 and has been an associate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) since 1969.

, representing Hong Kong in matches against

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and

Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is b ...

at the 1993

Tuanku Ja'afar Cup The Tuanku Ja'afar Cup was a cricket tournament contested by the national sides of Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. It is named in honour of the late Tuanku Jaafar, the former Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan and Yang di-Pert ...

. He had earlier played that sport at under-19 level for

Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...

.Ross Greer
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 8 February 2016.

External links

Oz Football

References

1967 births Living people Australian soccer players Australian expatriate soccer players Hong Kong First Division League players Hong Kong international footballers Association football midfielders English Football League players National Soccer League (Australia) players Eastern Sports Club footballers South China AA players Double Flower FA players Chester City F.C. players Melbourne Knights FC players Selangor FA players Expatriate footballers in Hong Kong Expatriate footballers in Malaysia Floreat Athena FC players Australian expatriate sportspeople in Hong Kong Cricketers from Western Australia Soccer players from Perth, Western Australia {{HongKong-footy-bio-stub