The team’s mature thinker and eloquent speaker will take some key lessons into Paris 2024, and is adamant that, at this point, she will play in their opening match.
Steph Catley was in bed at 10.30pm on July 19, 2023. Trying to calm her mind the night before the Matildas’ World Cup opener against Ireland. Already feeling the magnitude of the next day, many hours before a record crowd of 75,784 was due to file into Sydney’s Stadium Australia.
“Then we just talked for a long time. We had lots of different conversations. About how the team looked without her, and then about more general things like penalties. Sam’s just always been such a great leader in our team, and such a great person in my life. Steph Catley celebrates after scoring from the spot against Ireland, 24 hours after Sam Kerr knocked on her hotel room door.It was by no means her first rodeo. The 30-year-old has been a central figure in the national team since she was a teenager, and had previously stood in as skipper on multiple occasions.
“I’ve actually had a laugh with Ann about it before,” she says. “I think there was one after we went out of the Asian Cup early, and a couple before that. And I just thought ‘there’s a trend happening here’. I feel like in all the bad moments, the public are just seeing my mug and probably thinking ‘it’s all your fault’.
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