Barbara Cox (footballer)

Barbara Cox
MBE
Personal information
Date of birth (1947-05-10) 10 May 1947 (age 77)
Place of birth New Zealand
Position(s) Defender
International career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1975–1987 New Zealand 34 (0)

Barbara Douglas Cox MBE (born 10 May 1947) is a former association football player who represented New Zealand.

Cox captained the New Zealand women's team in their first ever international as they beat Hong Kong 2–0 on 25 August 1975[1] at the inaugural AFC Women's Asian Cup.[2][3] She finished her international career with 34 caps to her credit.[4]

In the 1996 New Year Honours, Cox was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to soccer.[5]

Cox has a 1998 Master's degree from the University of Auckland titled Multiple bodies : sportswomen, soccer and sexuality and a PhD completed in 2010 titled Issues of power in a history of women's football in New Zealand: A Foucauldian genealogy, under the supervision of Toni Bruce.[6][7]

In 2013, Cox became a founding committee member of the independent group Friends of Football[8]

Cox's daughters Michele Cox and Tara Cox also represented New Zealand.[4]

Honours

New Zealand

References

  1. ^ "Roll of Honour". The Ultimate New Zealand Soccer Website. Retrieved 13 May 2009.
  2. ^ "1975 Asian Cup". NZ Football. Archived from the original on 2 September 2007. Retrieved 18 May 2009.
  3. ^ "Football Ferns - Line-ups". The Ultimate New Zealand Soccer Website. Retrieved 13 May 2009.
  4. ^ a b "Caps 'n' Goals, New Zealand Women's national representatives". The Ultimate New Zealand Soccer Website. Retrieved 13 May 2009.
  5. ^ "No. 54256". The London Gazette (2nd supplement). 30 December 1995. p. 34.
  6. ^ Cox, Barbara (1998). Multiple bodies : sportswomen, soccer and sexuality (Masters thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland. hdl:2292/23999.
  7. ^ Cox, Barbara Douglas (2010). Issues of power in a history of women's football in New Zealand: A Foucauldian genealogy (Doctoral thesis). University of Waikato.
  8. ^ Friends of Football Committee Archived 1 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine. Friends of Football. Retrieved 31 December 2014.


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