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

History: Kylie Ledbrook, Matildas Cap 130

Matildas Debut: 2004 (played for the national team until 2011)
Appearances: 19 (1 goal)
Position: Midfielder

• 2004 Olympics
• 2006 & 2010 Asian Cup
• W-NSL: five seasons with NSW Sapphires (2000-04, 33 apps, 11 goals)
• A-League Women: six seasons with Sydney (2008-13, 2017-18, 60 apps, 17 goals), one season with WSW (2018-19, 12 apps, 3 goals)
• 16 seasons with NPL NSW side Macarthur Rams
• 2018 NPL NSW Player of the Year (joint winner with Courtney Nevin)

Hot Topics

• News

  • Questions raised about the maternity policies at FA WSL clubs
  • A new ACL surgery method has been developed (via The Athletic, behind paywall)

• Matildas

  • Cup of Nations details officially announced
    • Gosford, Thu 16 Feb: Spain v Jamaica, Matildas v Czechia
    • Parramatta, Sun 19 Feb: Jamaica v Czechia, Matildas v Spain
    • Newcastle, Wed 22 Feb: Czechia v Spain, Matildas v Jamaica
  • The draw for AFC’s 2024 Olympic qualifers was held (Australia will enter in Round 2)
  • Sam Kerr nominated for The Best FIFA Women’s Player 2022 (her sixth consecutive nomination!)
  • Remy Siemsen signs with Leicester City
  • Lydia Williams rumoured to be leaving PSG, with Brighton a possible destination
  • Signings: Around the World – Aussies/NZ Abroad

• Dub News & Signings

  • Sydney sign Rola Badawiya and Teigan Collister
  • Indiah-Paige Riley returns to Brisbane
  • Round 10 Review
    • Western United 2-0 Sydney
    • Adelaide 0-3 Melbourne City
    • Canberra 5-1 Newcastle
    • Wanderers 2-1 Western United
    • Brisbane 1-1 Adelaide
    • Melbourne City 1-1 Melbourne Victory
    • Perth 2-0 Wellington
  • Round 11 Preview (all times AEDT)
    • Wed 6pm – Wanderers v Victory
    • Sat 2:20pm – Western United v Brisbane (North Hobart Oval)
    • Sat 3pm – Melbourne City v Wanderers
    • Sat 4pm – Adelaide v Victory
    • Sun 10:15am – Wellington v Canberra
    • Sydney v Perth postponed to Wed 29 Mar
    • Sydney couldn’t source an available ground, Perth offered to host & pay the costs, Sydney rejected the offer

• • Season 15 squad page 

Around the World

UK

Conti Cup

• Charlton 2-0 Crystal Palace (Polly Doran) – Pozza Dozza played a full game
• Sunderland 0-5 Leicester City

FA WSL

• Season Dates: September 10th 2022 – May 28th 2023
• Aston Villa (Emily Gielnik) 2-1 Tottenham Hotspur (Kyah Simon) – Gielnik subbed on 75th min
• Arsenal (Steph Catley, Caitlin Foord) 1-1 Chelsea (Sam Kerr) – full games for Kerr, Foord and Catley, Kerr scored 89th min equaliser
• Everton (Clare Wheeler) 3-2 Reading – Wheeler subbed on 87th min
• Manchester United 6-0 Liverpool
• Leicester City (Remy Siemsen) 3-0 Brighton & Hove Albion (Rebekah Stott) – Siemsen not in squad, Stott unused sub
• West Ham United (Mackenzie Arnold) 0-1 Manchester City (Mary Fowler, Alanna Kennedy, Hayley Raso) – Arnold full game, Kennedy full game, Fowler unused sub, Raso not in squad

FA Championship (Polly’s Palace)

• Season Dates: August 20th 2022 – April 30th 2023
• Crystal Palace (Polly Doran) 0-5 London City Lionesses – Pozza Dozza start + 81 mins
• Southampton 0-1 Lewes (Isobel Dalton & Libby Copus-Brown) – Copus-Brown subbed on 55th min, Dalton subbed on 56th min

Scottish WPL (14 of 22)

• Season Dates: August 7th 2022 – May 21th 2023
• Results
• (midweek) Spartans 0-4 Glasgow City (Aoife Colvill)
• Glasgow Women 0-8 Celtic FC (Jacynta Galabadaarachchi) – Jacynta full game & goal
• Dundee United 1-8 Glasgow City

Europe

France – D1F (12 of 22)

• Season Dates: September 10th 2022 – June 10th 2023
• Results
• Soyaux 0-3 Lyon (Ellie Carpenter)
• PSG (Lydia Williams) 1-0 Rodez – Williams not in squad
• Read B90s coverage of the D1F

Italy – Serie A (13 of 18)

• Season Dates: August 27th 2022 – February 26th 2023
• Results or Soccerway
• Juventus (Joe Montemurro) 1-1 Sassuolo

Club Friendlies

• Twente 1-1 SV Meppen (Anna Margraf)
• SV Meppen 6-0 Heerenveen

Queens / Kings / Legends of the Week

Congratulations to the Aussie & Kiwi referees (Kate Jacewicz, Anna-Marie Keighley, Casey Reibelt), assistant referees (Joanna Charaktis, Sarah Jones) and Video Match Officials (Chris Beath) who were named on the list for the World Cup!

Cheryl – Alex Chidiac scored a birthday goal on Sunday

Dale – Ellie Brush scored her first goal since suffering two ACL injuries Joker) the image chosen for the Ellie Brush goal graphic was … suboptimal

Eric – 1) Football NSW Thunder won the Open Women’s division of the FFA Futsal National Championships, defeating Capital Football 4-1 in the Final after extra time 2) The Football Association of Ireland have appointed Eileen Gleeson as their Head of Women and Girls’ Football

Maj – Kim Carroll played her 150th A-League game

Neil – Arsenal have announced that they will install artwork at Emirates Stadium which pays the proper respect to the history of their women’s team

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