Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Portia Modise[1] | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 20 June 1983 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Soweto, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Midfielder / Forward | ||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
Soweto Rangers | |||||||||||||||||
Jomo Cosmos | |||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
1996–? | Soweto Ladies | ||||||||||||||||
2007–2009 | Fortuna Hjørring | ||||||||||||||||
2009–2012? | Palace Super Falcons | ||||||||||||||||
2014–2015 | Croesus Ladies | ||||||||||||||||
International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
2000–2015 | South Africa | 124 | (101) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 13:38, 16 October 2010 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 9 April 2016 |
Portia Modise (born 20 June 1983) is a South African footballer who was named Player of the Championship at the 2006 Women's African Football Championship. She represented the South Africa national team at the 2012 London Olympics. She became the first African player to score 100 international goals.[2]