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Australia has given Lydia Williams a stirring send-off as the Matildas pioneer prepares to bring down the curtain on her international career. Williams, Australian football’s longest-serving player, sent a capacity Accor Stadium wild with every touch of the ball during the 2-0 friendly win over China on Monday night.
Awesome moment as Matildas cruise past China. A guard of honour assembled for the 36-year-old before the match as Australian tennis great Evonne Goolagong Cawley presented Williams, a Noongar woman, with a traditional animal skin cloak. Bearing the captain’s armband, Williams’s game came to an end just before halftime when coach Tony Gustavsson opted to bring preferred goalkeeper Mackenzie Arnold onto the pitch.
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