| Intro | Scottish footballer | ||||||||||
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Athlete Football player Association football player |
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| From | United Kingdom | ||||||||||
| Type | Sports | ||||||||||
| Gender | female | ||||||||||
| Birth | 19 October 1978, Lanark, United Kingdom | ||||||||||
| Age: | 41 years | ||||||||||
| Star sign | Libra | ||||||||||
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Michelle Barr (born 19 October 1978) is a Scottish footballer and football coach who currently plays in the Scottish Women’s Premier League for Rangers. She has previously played professionally in the Icelandic Úrvalsdeild and has been capped for the Scotland women’s national team on 87 occasions.
Career
As a player, Barr has won every domestic honour in the Scottish women’s game and was an FA Women’s Cup runner-up with Doncaster Belles in 2002.
Barr made her debut for the Scotland women’s national team in 1996 against the Republic of Ireland and went on to win 87 caps, scoring once.
She played professionally in Iceland for ÍBV between 2001–2004, becoming club captain.
She joined the coaching staff at Dartmouth College as a volunteer assistant in 2005, becoming assistant coach to Angie Hind the following season. Barr and Hind both left Dartmouth in December 2010.
Barr is employed by the Scottish Football Association as National Youth Support Programme Manager for Girls/Women’s football and is also assistant coach of the national Under-15 Girls team.
She joined Rangers for the 2013 Scottish Women’s Premier League season.