Anna Senjuschenko | |
Fullname: | Anna Senjuschenko |
Birth Place: | Perth, Western Australia |
Death Date: | 1979 (aged 17) |
Death Place: | Perth, Western Australia |
Position: | Centre back |
Nationalyears1: | 1978 |
Nationalteam1: | Australia |
Nationalcaps1: | 4 |
Nationalgoals1: | 0 |
Club-Update: | 17:56, 1 December 2018 (UTC) |
Nationalteam-Update: | 03:02, 23 May 2019 (UTC) |
Anna Senjuschenko (Russian: Анна Сенющенко; 1961/1962 – 1979) was an Australian soccer player who won four unofficial caps for the Australia women's national soccer team.[1]
Senjuschenko was an elegant central defender, noted for her powerful shooting. At the 1978 Women's World Invitational Tournament, she was named Australia's best player and named to the team of the tournament.[2] The following year she was involved in a fatal traffic accident, while travelling as a passenger in a car in central Perth. In 1996 Senjuschenko was named to the Football Hall of Fame Western Australia.[3]
Anna's brother Alex Senjuschenko was also a soccer centre-half and Football Hall of Fame Western Australia member. Their parents were Russian and moved to Australia in the early 1950s.[4] Alex died in April 2012.[3] [2] [5]