Thea Slatyer

Thea Slatyer
Personal information

Full name	Thea Kay Slatyer
Date of birth	2 February 1983 (1983-02-02) (age 29)
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current club	Newcastle Jets
Youth career
	Northbridge
	Greenwich
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
	NSW Jets
	NSW Sapphires
	Canberra United FC
–	Newcastle Jets
National team^‡
2002-	Australia	46	(2)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 1 June 2010. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 3 July 2011

Thea Slatyer (born 2 February 1983) is an Australian female football (soccer) player and member of the Australia women's national football (soccer) team.

Playing career

After making her debut for Australia in 2002 Slatyer has played 42 times for the Matildas, scoring twice.^[1]^[2]

She works as a bodyguard and is a black belt in martial arts.^[3] In June 2011, Slatyer was on the cover of the Australian FourFourTwo Magazine along with fellow Matilda's Melissa Barbieri, Sam Kerr, Kyah Simon and Sarah Walsh.

An interview with Four Four Two magazine [1]

Australia squad – 2004 Summer Olympics (Women's Football)

1 Kell 2 Davies 3 Wainwright 4 Alagich 5 Salisbury 6 Shipard 7 Walsh 8 Garriock 9 Ledbrook 10 Peters 11 de Vanna 12 Reuter 13 Slatyer 14 Foster 15 Karp 16 Kuralay 17 Small 18 Barbieri Coach: Santrac

Australia squad – 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup

1 Barbieri 2 McShea 3 Ferguson 4 Alagich 5 Salisbury 6 Davies 7 Garriock 8 Munoz 9 Walsh 10 Peters 11 de Vanna 12 Gill 13 Slatyer 14 McCallum 15 Shipard 16 Colthorpe 17 Small 18 Williams 19 Polkinghorne 20 Burgess 21 Wirkus Coach: Sermanni

Australia squad – 2010 AFC Women's Asian Cup Winners (1st title)

1 Barbieri • 3 Reuter • 4 Polkinghorne • 5 Colthorpe • 6 Uzunlar • 7 Garriock • 9 Walsh • 10 Ledbrook • 11 De Vanna • 12 Gill • 13 Slatyer • 14 McCallum • 15 Shipard • 16 Kellond-Knight • 17 Simon • 18 Williams • 19 Khamis • 22 Kerr • 23 Carroll • 24 Butt • 25 Dumont • 27 Luik • 31 Allen • Coach: Sermanni