| Another goal for Kelly By Brad Earl KELLY Golebiowski's dream of playing in the US women's professional soccer league has come true. The 21-year-old former Westfields Sports High School student has landed a one-year contract with the Washington Freedom in the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA). She is among only Suatralians to have joined the crowd pulling competition, which is entering it's third season. "Since the league started it's been a dream of mine to be part of it, and, three years later, now I am," Golebriowski said. She will boast the world's mosr famous female player as a teammate - US striker Mia Hamm, the FIFA Woman's World Player of the year for the past two years. Golebiowski, who was due to leave yesterday, will miss next months start of the season when she returns home for the Matildas' Oceania World Cup qualifiers. (The World Cup will be held in China in September and October.) For the past two seasons, Golebiowski has starred in the W-League - the second tier US competition - with the Hampton Road Piranhas. She came to the attention of Washington because her club was in the ajoining state of Virginia. \/ She has been recruited by the Freedom as a midfielder, which was her original position before being converted to a striker by the Matildas before the Sydney Olympics Golebiowski was in good scoring form in the recent Australia Cup in Canberra, in which the Matildas were runners-up to Sweden.. She played her 50th full internation in that tournament. Whereas there are now representative teams for girls down the under-12, Golebiowski, from Kings Langley, >>> started out in a boys rep side with the Blacktown association in under-11s and 12s. She then went into the NSW Soccer Federation's academy at Parklea and was also in Westfields' soccer squad - the same programs that produced Harrey Kewell "From about the age of 12, I knew I wanted to play for Australia and go as far as I could with that," Golebiowski said. "I achieved that, abviously, two years later [at 14, the youngest-ever Matilda] and besides going to the World Cup and an Olympics - which were goals that I had set and achieved a few years later again - when the professional league opened up I wanted to be part of that as well". |
| Original article can be found here: http://www.westfieldsports.nsw.edu.au/SPORTS/soccerpg17.html |
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| Kelly Golebiowski on the ball for Matildas against Sweden in the recent Australia Cup |
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