Trailblazers and history makers: that's the mantle bestowed on the Matildas' squad who will line up in France for the Paris Olympics. The team is made up of 18 players and four reserves, including eight soon-to-be three-time Olympians.
Trailblazers and history makers: that's the mantle bestowed on the Matildas' squad who will line up in France for the Paris Olympics. The team is made up of 18 players and four reserves, including eight soon-to-be three-time Olympians. The ultimate goal for the team is to finally bring home an Olympic medal.Eighteen players and four travelling reserves will be jetting off to Paris next month.
The team will travel to France without long-term captain Sam Kerr, who scored six times at the last Olympics in Tokyo."Sam is always with us. Always. No matter if she’s physically present or not everyone knows that she’s there. Right now her focus is her rehab and make sure she has the support she needs from the club and from the national team and I know that she will support us no matter where she’s at.
"There’s a couple of fresh faces, a couple of stalwarts, a very familiar team but yeah I think the way we’ve been playing over the last year or so, we’re in a really good place, we’ve still got a fair bit to work on before the Olympics but that’s always sort of the process, you don’t want to be peaking right now you want to be peaking in a month when we’re about to play our first game."
She was also presented with a cloak made of red kangaroo skin embroidered with symbols of her home and family by fellow Indigenous sporting legend, Evonne Goolagong-Cawley.
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