PODCAST | Making Sangria

Australia’s longest-running women’s football podcast (est. April 2019). 

History: Leena Khamis, Matildas Cap 163

W-League 

• Top scorer in inaugural season (7 goals)
• WNSL – Northern NSW (2003) and NSW Sapphires (2004)
• Sydney FC 2008-18
• Western Sydney 2019, 2021
• Canberra United 2020
• Perth Glory 2022

International

• Fortuna Hjorring 2011-2012

Appeared at 2010 Asian Cup (vs Vietnam & China) and 2011 WWC (vs Eq Guinea), was in 2014 AC and 2015 WWC squads.  Now works as a firefighter in SW Sydney.

Hot Topics

Matildas

• Rankings – Matildas drop 1 position to 11th

#FIFAWWC 2023 has drawn to a close and the latest #FIFARanking is in! 📈

🇸🇪 edge 🇪🇸 to sit top of the table!

— FIFA Women’s World Cup (@FIFAWWC) August 25, 2023

• Junior Matildas 
  • 5 day camp (27/8-1/9) with 30 footballers

• • R2 AFC U17 Women’s Asian Cup Qualifiers held in Vietnam September 16-24
    • Junior Matildas v Philippines

      Date: 20 September 2023
      Kick Off: 4:00pm (Local time), 7:00pm AEST 

    • Vietnam v Junior Matildas   
      Date: 22 September 2023
      Kick Off: 7:00pm (Local time), 10:00pm AEST

    • Junior Matildas v Bangladesh
      Date: 24 September 2023
      Kick Off: 4:00pm (Local time), 7:00pm AEST 

• Signings: Around the World – Aussies/NZ Abroad

Dub News & Signings

• Plenty of signings to discuss

• Season 16 squad page 

Around the World

Nordic

Norway – Toppserien Round 18 (of 20)

• (4) SK Brann Kvinner (Larissa Crummer, Tameka Yallop) 1-0 (7) Lyn 
  • Larissa wasn’t on the teamsheet for this game but did take part in the Aug 20th friendly against Brøndby IF from Denmark. Meeks also wasn’t on the teamsheet and this week agreed to a multi-season deal with Brisbane Roar.

Sweden – Damallsvenkan – recommences 2 Sep with Round 18 (of 19)

• FC Rosengard (Teagan Micah)
• Norrköping (Chelsie Dawber) 
• Vittsjö GIK (Clare Polkinghorne, Katrina Gorry, Charli Grant)
• Hammarby (Kyra Cooney-Cross)
• BK Häcken (Aivi Luik)

Denmark – Elitedivisionen Round x

• Kolding 4-0 AGF (Matilda McNamara, Ally Green)
• FC Nordsjælland (Winonah Heatley) 2-0 Fortuna Hjorring
• Thy ThistedQ 0-1 HB Koge (Deborah-Anne de la Harpe)

US – NWSL

State Football

• ACT
  • Round 20 of 21
  • Gungahlin United has now played all 21 games, some teams have two games to play in the coming 7 days
  • finals commence the weekend of Saturday September 10th 
  • (2) Belconnen United (Talia Backhouse) 1-2 (5) Canberra United Academy (Tiana Boots, Jaya Bowman)
  • (7) Tuggeranong United (Zoe Terry, Rainey Niles) 2-7 (3) Gungahlin United (Darby Whiteley 2, Kayla Wright 2, Nat De Marco 2, Sharon Chao)
    • keep an eye out for Steffen’s review
  • (1) Canberra Olympic (Maddy Whittall) 1-0 (8) West Canberra Wanderers
  • (3) Canberra Croatia (Tatum Mazis) 1-1 (6) ANU (Edith Fordyce-Croker) 
• NSW
  • Institute 1-2 Spirit
  • Bankstown 1-1 Manly
  • Stingrays 0-0 Rams
  • Jets 1-1 Ravens
  • Sydney Uni 1-2 Olympic
  • Spartans 0-4 Bulls
  • Tigers 0-2 APIA
  • Sapphire Cup Final – Sun Sep 10, APIA v Tigers
• QLD
• VIC
  • Results

Queens, Kings and Themperors of the Week

Dale – the majority of Spanish football for calling out Rubiales

Eric – 1) Mary Stanic-Floody scored a match-winning double as NWS Spirit won 2-1 against FNSW Institute 2) Aisling Davidson scored the only goal of the game as Hills United won 1-0 against Nepean FC (her former club!) 3) Sydney Olympic’s Megan Grew has joined the Football NSW commentary team while she is rehabbing from an ACL injury

Maj – Tegan Riding reached the 200 game milestone in NPL Queensland and scored a hat trick in the final game of the regular season

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