The loneliest walk in sport is from halfway to the penalty spot, with the whole world watching. The loneliest wait might be sitting in the middle of the Pacific, with a 12-foot monster heading your way.
The loneliest walk many can imagine is from halfway to the penalty spot. The world watching, the weight of it all hinging on what happens next in the 12 yards from penalty spot to goalmouth.
“You can’t think about it at the time, but these massive moments, a shoot-out like that will stay with the girls for the rest of their lives,” John Aloisi, an expert in the football side of things and Channel Seven’s World Cup commentary, says ahead of the Matildas semi-final against England., recalls his own 2005 fairytale – sealing the Socceroos’ historic World Cup return almost 20 years ago – with clarity.
“A place like Teahupo’o getting announced for the Olympics? Trust me, people are getting nervous about that already.Fitzgibbons is riding the Matildas wave like the rest of us and played junior soccer with several current and former stars, including Caitlin Foord, Emily van Egmond, Kyah Simon and Ellyse Perry.
Aloisi describes those same tense minutes as “just brutal on the emotions” as each shot is saved, missed or nailed.In the moments before sinking Uruguay with the first shot to stop a nation, Aloisi was taken back to the day prior, when coach Guus Hiddink called his players out one-by-one at training to bed down Australia’s shoot-out tactics.
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