Brittany Timko
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Brittany Timko is a Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 female soccer player.

Career

She played for the Vancouver Whitecaps Women
Vancouver Whitecaps Women
The Vancouver Whitecaps FC women are a Canadian women's soccer team founded in 2001 and a part of the greater Vancouver Whitecaps FC club. Originally called the Vancouver Breakers in 2001-02, the team is a member of the W-League, the second tier of women's soccer in the United States and Canada...

. She also played on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln soccer team from 2003 to 2007, and graduated in May 2007. She then played and Timko signed in October 2008 in the newly formed Westfield W-League
W-League (Australia)
The W-League is the preeminent women's semi-professional football league in Australia. Established in 2008, it is composed of eight teams - seven of them are affiliated with seven of the Australian clubs currently in the A-League, with the eighth team based in Canberra...

, for Melbourne Victory  in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, linking up with her former coach Matt Shepherd. In the first half of the 2009/2010 season played in Sweden's Damallsvenskan
Damallsvenskan
The Damallsvenskan, Swedish for ladies' all-Swedish, is the highest division of women's football in Sweden. It is also referred as to the women's Allsvenskan, this term being used alone to refer to the men's division....

 league for Piteå IF and in the second will play for SG Essen-Schönebeck
SG Essen-Schönebeck
SG Essen-Schönebeck are a German association football club based in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The team was founded in 2000 as a merger of VfB Borbeck and SC Grün-Weiß Schönebeck. The club is renowned for the women's football team, which plays in the Bundesliga.-History:On 21 March 1973 SC...

. In summer 2010 left SG Essen-Schönebeck
SG Essen-Schönebeck
SG Essen-Schönebeck are a German association football club based in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The team was founded in 2000 as a merger of VfB Borbeck and SC Grün-Weiß Schönebeck. The club is renowned for the women's football team, which plays in the Bundesliga.-History:On 21 March 1973 SC...

.

International career

Timko has played a total of 100 times for Canada and scored 4 goals. However, at the U-19 level, where she played forward more, she was capped 32 times and scored 16 goals. She earned the adidas
Adidas
Adidas AG is a German sports apparel manufacturer and parent company of the Adidas Group, which consists of the Reebok sportswear company, TaylorMade-Adidas golf company , and Rockport...

 Golden Shoe as top scorer at the 2004 FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship
2004 FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship
-Group B:---------------------Group C:--------------------- Knockout Map :-Quarterfinals:-------------Semifinals:-----Third place play-off:-Final:-Awards:-All star team:-Goalscorers:...

 with seven goals in a mere 4 games.

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