Anna Green (born 20 August 1990), is an

association football 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 ...

er who plays for

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 ...

and represents

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at international level. She has also played for

Three Kings United Three Kings United Football Club is a youth football club based in Three Kings, Auckland, New Zealand. They previously competed in the Lotto Sport Italia NRFL Division 1, with their last appearance coming in 2019. In 2020, Three Kings United m ...

( ASB League),

Adelaide United Adelaide United Football Club is a professional Association Football, soccer club based in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. The club participates in the A-League Men under North American professional sports league organization#Systems ar ...

and

( W-League) and

Lokomotive Leipzig 1. Fußballclub Lokomotive Leipzig e.V. is a German football club based in the locality of Probstheida in the Südost borough of Leipzig, Saxony. The club may be more familiar to many of the country's football fans as the historic side VfB Lei ...

(

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). In January 2014 Green agreed a

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Notts County Notts County Football Club is a professional association football club based in Nottingham, England. The team participate in the National League (division), National League, the fifth tier of the English football league system. Founded on the 2 ...

of the

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. Under the terms of the deal she would join the English club after finishing the Australian season with Sydney FC and taking part in the

Cyprus Cup The Cyprus Women's Cup is a global invitational tournament for national teams in women's association football. It has been held annually in Cyprus since 2008. Although the competition takes place in Cyprus, the hosts have yet to take part in th ...

. After seeing out her contract with

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, Green decided to return to New Zealand and play part-time in the

National Women's League National Women's League may refer to: * National Women's League (Canada), a women's rugby union league in Canada * National Women's League (Ghana), a women's football league in Ghana * National Women's League (New Zealand) The National League ( ...

while working as an accountant.

International career

Green made her international debut as a substitute in a 0–3 loss to

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on 14 November 2006. She was included in the New Zealand squad for the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

, featuring in the losses to

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(0–1) and

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

(0–4). Green travelled with the New Zealand U-20 squad to the 2008 Women's U-20 World Cup finals in Chile, again featuring in two of New Zealand's group games. In 2010, she represented New Zealand at the

2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup The 2010 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup was the 5th edition of the tournament. It was held in Germany, who will also host the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup a year later from 13 July to 1 August 2010. Sixteen teams, comprising representatives from all ...

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, appearing in all three group games. She was also part of the 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.

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at NZF * 1990 births Living people New Zealand women's association footballers Sydney FC (A-League Women) players Notts County L.F.C. players Olympic association footballers of New Zealand Footballers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Footballers at the 2012 Summer Olympics 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup players 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup players Footballers from Stockport New Zealand women's international footballers Footballers at the 2016 Summer Olympics New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in England Expatriate women's footballers in England New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in Australia Expatriate women's soccer players in Australia Expatriate women's footballers in Germany New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in Germany Women's association football defenders Expatriate women's footballers in Sweden Damallsvenskan players Reading F.C. Women players Mallbackens IF players 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players Footballers at the 2020 Summer Olympics New Zealand expatriate sportspeople in Sweden New Zealand expatriate women's association footballers {{NewZealand-women-footy-bio-stub