Dame Walters
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Dame Walters | ||
Date of birth | December 27, 1976 | ||
Place of birth | Clarendon Parish, Jamaica | ||
Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||
Playing position | Defender | ||
Youth career | |||
Clarendon College | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
2000–2001 | Leyton Orient | 0 | (0) |
2002–2005 | Tivoli Gardens | ||
2006 | Atlanta Silverbacks U23's | 16 | (0) |
2007 | Atlanta Silverbacks | 9 | (0) |
2008–2009 | Wilmington Hammerheads | 27 | (0) |
National team | |||
Jamaica | 1 | (0) | |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 11 October 2009. |
Dame "Tweety" Walters (born December 27, 1976 in Clarendon Parish) is a Jamaican soccer player, currently without a club.
Career
Professional
Walters attended Clarendon College in his native Jamaica, before moving to England when he signed a contract with English lower-league club Leyton Orient. Walters never settled in England, and never played a first team game with Orient, returning home to Jamaica to play for Tivoli Gardens in the Jamaican National Premier League in 2002. He won the JNPL title with Tivoli in 2003/2004.
Walters moved to the United States in 2006, and played 16 games with the Atlanta Silverbacks U23's as an over-age player in the USL Premier Development League, before moving onto the senior Atlanta Silverbacks team the following year.
He was released by the Silverbacks at the end of the season,[1] and subsequently signed with the Wilmington Hammerheads in the USL Second Division in 2008, where he was named to the USL2 All-League Second Team.[2] He re-signed for the Hammerheads in 2009.[3]
International
Walters has one cap for the Jamaica national football team.
Honors
Wilmington Hammerheads
- USL Second Division Regular Season Champions (1): 2009