Meikayla Moore
Moore in 2019
Personal information
Full name Meikayla Jean-Maree Moore[1]
Date of birth (1996-06-04) 4 June 1996 (age 27)[1]
Place of birth Christchurch, New Zealand[2]
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
 Glasgow City
Number 18
Youth career
Burwood AFC
Avon United
Coastal Spirit
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2017–2018 FC Köln 8 (0)
2018–2020 Duisburg 31 (1)
2020–2022 Liverpool 24 (2)
2022– Glasgow City 13 (0)
International career‡
2012 New Zealand U17 10 (0)
2012–2016 New Zealand U20 9 (0)
2013– New Zealand 51 (4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 01 May 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 21 February 2022

Meikayla Jean-Maree Moore (born 4 June 1996) is a professional footballer who plays as a defender for Glasgow City in the Scottish Women's Premier League and the New Zealand national team.[3]

Career

Moore was a member of the New Zealand U-17 side at the 2012 Women's World Championship, playing in all three of New Zealand's group games.[4]

Moore made her senior début for the Football Ferns as a substitute in a 4–0 win over China on 26 September 2013.[5]

She was part of New Zealand's squad at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada.[1]

In April 2019, Moore was named to the final 23-player squad for the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup,[6] however while in France training before the tournament started, Moore snapped her Achilles.[7]

15 months later she had recovered enough from the injury to sign for Liverpool who play in the FA Women's Championship.[7][8]

On 20 February 2022, Moore scored a perfect hat-trick of own goals in a match for New Zealand against the United States at the SheBelieves Cup, all in the first half;[9][10] Moore is the first footballer believed to have recorded a hat-trick of own goals which were not deliberate. Some sources mention that she is the second player to achieve this, after Stan Van den Buys, though the third of his own goals was technically scored by Johan Walem.[11][12][13] Moore's first two own goals were scored in the 5th and 6th minutes, and she was taken off in the 40th minute, with ESPN reporting that only the third goal (in the 36th minute) was due to her making "an obvious error", an ill-timed clearance kicking it into the goal (for the first, her block of a shot from wide bounced back into the net, and for the second, the ball hit her face to deflect into the net). The United States coach, Vlatko Andonovski, said that it was unfortunate that Moore was so unlucky, adding that "she's incredible and ... her positioning was very [good]".[11][14][10]

With extensive media and social media coverage of the own goals, Max Rushden wrote an opinion piece debating the instinct to laugh at the own goals and the simultaneous hope that the player has good mental fortitude.[15]

In June 2023, Ava Collins, Moore and Kate Taylor were named as reserve players for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup.[16] However, Moore declined to join the squad as a reserve player and Grace Wisnewski was called up as a reserve player instead of her.[17]

International goals

No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 10 June 2018 Westpac Stadium, Wellington, New Zealand  Japan 1–1 1–3 International Friendly
2. 25 November 2018 Stade Numa-Daly Magenta, Nouméa, New Caledonia  Fiji 5–0 10–0 2018 OFC Women's Nations Cup
3. 1 December 2018  Fiji 4–0 8–0
4. September 6, 2022 Titan Stadium, Fullerton  Philippines 1–1 2–1 Friendly

Notes

References

  1. ^ a b c d "List of Players – 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup" (PDF). Fédération Internationale de Football Association. Retrieved 20 June 2015.
  2. ^ Profile at NZF
  3. ^ "Caps 'n' Goals, New Zealand Women's national representatives". The Ultimate New Zealand Soccer Website. Retrieved 23 October 2011.
  4. ^ "Squad List – New Zealand". FIFA. Archived from the original on 27 October 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
  5. ^ "Football Ferns-Line-ups". The Ultimate New Zealand Soccer Website. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
  6. ^ "Football Ferns squad revealed for World Cup".
  7. ^ a b "Football Ferns centre-half makes comeback from Achilles injury". Accident Compensation Corporation. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  8. ^ "New Zealand footballer Meikayla Moore signs with famous English club Liverpool". Stuff. 28 August 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2020.
  9. ^ Rollo, Phillip (20 February 2022). "Football Ferns defender Meikayla Moore scores hat-trick of own goals against USA". Stuff.
  10. ^ a b "Liverpool's Meikayla Moore scores unwanted hat-trick playing for New Zealand". Belfast Telegraph. 20 February 2022.
  11. ^ a b "What the USWNT learned from New Zealand win despite Meikayla Moore's 3 own goals". ESPN.com. 21 February 2022. Retrieved 21 February 2022.
  12. ^ "RSC Anderlecht 2:3 (Eerste klasse A 1994/1995, 19. Round)". worldfootball.com.
  13. ^ "First own goals hat-trick in world football!". IFFHS. 22 February 2022.
  14. ^ New Zealand defender Meikayla Moore scores hat-trick of own goals in SheBelieves Cup, retrieved 17 December 2023
  15. ^ Rushden, Max (24 February 2022). "Is it ever OK to laugh at a footballer scoring three own goals?". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
  16. ^ "Football Ferns squad named for FIFA Women's World Cup". New Zealand Football. 30 June 2023.
  17. ^ Voerman, Andrew (6 July 2023). "FIFA Women's World Cup: Meikayla Moore turns down Football Ferns training invite". Stuff.

External links

Glasgow City F.C. – current squad
New Zealand squads
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