Silvana Burtini

Canadian soccer player

Silvana Burtini
Personal information
Date of birth	(1969-05-10) May 10, 1969 (age 55)
Place of birth	Williams Lake, British Columbia, Canada
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Forward
College career
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1992	Capilano Blues	9	(14)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1999–2000	Raleigh Wings
2001	Carolina Courage	17	(4)
International career
1987–2003	Canada	77	(38)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Silvana Burtini (born May 10, 1969) is a Canadian former soccer player. A forward, she represented Canada at the 1995, 1999 and 2003 editions of the FIFA Women's World Cup. In 1998 Burtini was named Canadian Player of the Year and was part of the Canadian squad who won the CONCACAF Women's Championship.^[1] She has scored the third-most goals in Team Canada Women's Soccer history, with 38 in 77 games.

At Capilano College, Burtini was BCCAA Player of the Year and a CCAA All-Canadian in 1992–93.^[2]^[3]

As a member of the Vancouver Police Department, Burtini was presented with the British Columbia Police Award of Valour for saving a life in 2004.^[4]

International goals

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	28 August 1998	Centennial Park Stadium, Toronto, Canada	Puerto Rico	1–0	21–0	1998 CONCACAF Women's Championship
2.				2–0
3.				3–0
4.				5–0
5.				8–0
6.				9–0
7.				12–0
8.				13–0
9.	30 August 1998		Martinique	1–0	14–0
10.				2–0
11.				4–0
12.	1 September 1998		Guatemala	2–0	4–0
13.				3–0
14.				4–0

^ Mackin, Bob (September 17, 2003). "Girls got game". Vancouver Courier. Archived from the original on October 4, 2003. Retrieved September 1, 2013.
^ "Athletic Accomplishments".
^ "Capilano University Blues Women's Soccer All-Time Leaders – Goals" (PDF). Capilano Blues. Archived (PDF) from the original on February 2, 2023. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
^ "Silvana Burtini". www.thesoccerhalloffame.ca. Archived from the original on November 20, 2015.

Canada Soccer Player of the Year

Men

Women

v t e Canada squad – 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup
1 Hawthorne 2 Stoumbos 3 Hooper 4 Ring 5 Neil 6 Donnelly (c) 7 Morneau 8 Sedgwick 9 Helland 10 O'Brien 11 Caron 12 McEachern 13 Kelly 14 Ross 15 Muir 16 Mongrain 17 Burtini 18 Chin 19 Gerrior 20 Singfield Coach: Béliveau

v t e Canada squad – 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup
1 Wright 2 Smith 3 Nonen 4 Franck 5 Neil 6 Donnelly 7 Morneau 8 Maglio 9 Helland 10 Hooper 11 Rosenow 12 Harvey 13 Walsh 14 Joly 15 Muir 16 Haas 17 Burtini (c) 18 Bowie 19 Haz 20 LeBlanc Coach: Turnbull

v t e Canada squad – 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup fourth place
1 LeBlanc 2 Latham 3 Consolante 4 Andrews 5 Neil 6 Nonen 7 Morneau 8 Kiss 9 Wilkinson 10 Hooper (c) 11 Hermus 12 Sinclair 13 Matheson 14 Moscato 15 Lang 16 Timko 17 Burtini 18 Dennis 19 McLeod 20 Swiatek Coach: Pellerud

Canada Soccer Hall of Fame

Based in Ottawa, Ontario

Hall of Fame

Players (144)

Modern Players (Men's National Team)	Bernier Brennan Bridge Bunbury Catliff Corazzin Dasovic De Rosario deVos Dolan Forrest Gray Hastings Hooper Limniatis McKenna Miller Mitchell Mobilio Moore Onstad Peschisolido Radzinski Ragan Samuel Segota Stalteri Sweeney Valentine Watson Yallop
Modern Players (Women's National Team)	S. Brand Burtini Cant Caron Chapman Chin Baker David Donnelly Franko Gayle Helland Hermus Hooper Kelly Lang LeBlanc Lemieux McEachern Mongrain Morneau Moscato Muir Neil Ring Ross Serwetnyk Simon Stoumbos Timko Baxter Walsh Wilkinson
Past Players (Post WW2)	Ambler Arends Ayre Bak Blundell Bolitho J. Brand Cairns M. Castonguay P. Castonguay R. Castonguay Chursky Cowan Crossan Douglas Ellett Gill Greig Harvey Hughes Iarusci Ion Johnson Kodelja R. Lenarduzzi S. Lenarduzzi Lettieri Marcantonio Matheson McGrane N. McLeod W. McLeod D. McMahon Newbold Parsons Pears B. Philley P. Philley Phillips Robinson Schepers B. Smith Spencer A. Stevens G. Stevens Stewart Stojanović Stothard Vazzoler Whent Whittaker B. Wilson Nicholl (NIR)
Past Players (Pre WW2)	G. Anderson (1900) Bowman Campbell Clulow Coulter Derby Dierden Edmunds Findler Fitzpatrick Graham Halliwell Harley Lavery MacLaine Manson Matthews Moir Nelson A. Smith Stobbart Thombs W. Thomson Turner Wakelyn Woutersz Chedgzoy (ENG) Kennaway (SCO) McDonald (NIR)