Angela Iannotta

Angela Iannotta (born 22 March 1971) is an Italian Australian soccer coach and former player. As a forward, she represented Australia women's national association football team in the 1995 and 1999 FIFA Women's World Cups and played club football in Australia, Italy and Japan. Iannotta's equaliser against China in 1995 was Australia's first ever World Cup goal.[2]

Angela Iannotta
Personal information
Full name Angela Iannotta
Date of birth (1971-03-22) 22 March 1971
Place of birth Myrtleford, Australia
Height 1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Melrose Park Rangers
Albury City
Albury United
1992–1996 ACF Agliana
1996–1997 Panasonic Bambina
1997–1998 Autolelli Picenum
1998–1999 Canberra Eclipse
Autolelli Picenum
National team‡
1991–1999

Australia

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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 21:44, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 21:44, 11 January 2014 (UTC)

Iannotta played alongside Italy's Carolina Morace in Agliana's 1994–95 Scudetto winning team. In 1996–97 Iannotta joined Cheryl Salisbury and Sunni Hughes at Panasonic Bambina of Japan's L. League. Two broken legs, sustained seven months apart, derailed Iannotta's progress in Japan and she returned to Italy. In 1998 she accepted a place on the Australian Institute of Sport Football Program, ahead of the following year's World Cup in the United States.

References
  1. "Official Media Guide of Australia at the FIFA Women's World Cup Germany 2011" (PDF). Football Federation Australia. 8 July 2011. p. 53. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
  2. "Angela Iannotta". Australian Sports Commission. Archived from the original on 19 January 2000. Retrieved 11 January 2014.


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