Torijan Lyne-Lewis
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 15 June 1995 | ||
| Place of birth | New Zealand | ||
| International career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2019- | Samoa | 6 | (8) |
Torijan Lyne-Lewis is a New Zealand-born Samoan footballer who plays as a midfielder and a forward. She is a member of the Samoa women's national football team. In New Zealand, she plays for Palmerston North Marist FC.
Lyne-Lewis was born in New Zealand and is of Samoan and Indonesian heritage.[1] She works as an aquatic centre manager.[2] She played football for Levin AFC, Massey University, and Palmerston North Marist FC.[2] In 2020 she moved to Wairarapa United. In 2021 she was awarded the Golden Boot in the Lower North Island competition.[3]
In 2017 Lyne-Lewis was selected for the Futsal Ferns.[4][5]
In June 2019 she was named to the Samoa women's national football team for the 2019 Pacific Games.[6][7] The team won silver, with Lyne-Lewis scoring Samoa's only goal in the competition final against Papua New Guinea.[8] In July 2022 she was named to the squad for the 2022 OFC Women's Nations Cup.[9]
In 2021 Lyne-Lewis was appointed a football ambassador by the Oceania Football Confederation as part of its women's football strategy.[1][10]
International goals
[edit]| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 8 July 2019 | FFS Football Stadium, Apia, Samoa |  Tonga |
1–0 | 5–0 | 2019 Pacific Games |
| 2. | 2–0 | |||||
| 3. | 12 July 2019 |  Fiji |
1–0 | 1–0 | ||
| 4. | 18 July 2019 |  New Caledonia |
1–2 | 3–2 | ||
| 5. | 2–2 | |||||
| 6. | 3–2 | |||||
| 7. | 20 July 2019 |  Papua New Guinea |
1–1 | 1–3 | ||
| 8. | 27 November 2023 | Lawson Tama Stadium, Honiara, Solomon Islands | Papua New Guinea |
1–3 | 1–5 | 2023 Pacific Games |
References
[edit]- ^ a b Ashley Stanley (28 July 2021). "Women's football on the rise in Oceania". Newsroom. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
- ^ a b "ALL IN: Torijan Lyne-Lewis – Samoa". Oceania Football Confederation. 18 November 2021. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
- ^ "About us". Wairarapa United. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
The Senior Women finished 3rd in the Lower North Island comp, the W-League, with Torijan Lyne-Lewis awarded the 2021 Golden Boot.
- ^ "Central Futsal announce National Women's League Futsal Team for 2018". Central Football. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
- ^ "Futsal Fern's winning start in Tauranga". Sunlive. 13 September 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
- ^ "Samoa Pacific Games squad announced". Loop Samoa. 17 June 2019. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
- ^ Soli Wilson (8 June 2019). "Football Pacific Games squad announced". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
- ^ "Samoan Women's Football takes silver medal second to great footballers to PNG". Football Federation Samoa. 20 July 2019. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
- ^ "Ifill names Samoa squad for Nations Cup". Oceania Football Confederation. 9 July 2022. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
- ^ "OFC's new strategy to examine ways of attracting more women to soccer". Fiji Times. 27 July 2021. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
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- Living people
- Naturalized citizens of Samoa
- Samoan women's footballers
- Women's association football midfielders
- Samoa women's international footballers
- New Zealand women's association footballers
- New Zealand sportspeople of Samoan descent
- New Zealand people of Indonesian descent
- 1995 births
- Wairarapa United players
- 21st-century New Zealand sportswomen
- Oceanian women's association football biography stubs
- Samoan football biography stubs
- New Zealand women's association football biography stubs