Aoife Colvill (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images), Wendie Renard (Photo by Jonathan Moscrop/Getty Images)
Aoife Colvill (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images), Wendie Renard (Photo by Jonathan Moscrop/Getty Images)

Our special guest is Republic of Ireland international Aoife Colvill!

Steffen revels in having a guest that used to play for Canberra United and also gives us the latest Nordic news. Maj entertains with a Queensland NPLW wrap, Dale cops the usual banter about his Everton allegiances, and Cheryl tries to keep everyone on track so we don’t have a three hour podcast.

History: Tammie Thornton, Matildas Cap 93

Played for the Matildas from: 1996-1997
Grassroots Club: Stratford Utd Dolphins (same club as Eesh Ferguson)
Appearances: 19 A internationals (1 goal)

A defensive midfielder from Cairns, Thornton played in the USA, as well as with English clubs Queens Park Rangers and Chelsea.

Special guest Aoife Colvill

  • Born in Cairns to Australian and Irish parents, Aoife played for Canberra United Academy and Canberra United, before moving to play for Glasgow City in the Scottish Women’s Premier League
  • Aoife played for the Young Matildas during the 2019 AFC Under-19 Women’s Championship qualifiers, and then changed allegiances to play internationally for the Republic of Ireland

Hot Topics

Around the World

UK

FA WSL (20 of 22)

Scottish WPL (24 of 27)

Europe

France – D1F

  • Only one catchup match (R18) with no Aussies in action until May 7th (R20)
  • Read B90s coverage of the D1F

Italy – Serie A (20 of 22)

Netherlands – Eredivisie (23 of 27)

Serbian Women’s Super League

Nordic

US – NWSL Challenge Cup

Watch matches on twitch.tv/NWSLOfficial2

Our friends at ShePlays have started an NWSL competition! The deadline to submit your team for Round 1 is Saturday 30 April, 12:30pm (AEST), head to sheplays.com.au/nwsl

State Football

  • ACT – Round 3
    • (2) Canberra Olympic 3-2 (3) Belconnen United
    • (7) Tuggeranong United 0-5 (1) Canberra Croatia
    • (4) West Canberra 2-0 (8) Wagga City
    • (5) Canberra United Academy 4-0 (6) Gungahlin United
    • Federation Cup R2 – 2 games on recording night, Canberra United Academy 5-0 Tuggeranong United and Belconnen 6-0 ANU
  • NSW
    • Spirit FC (Sunny Franco) 1-2 Northern Tigers (Ash Brodigan, Maddie Bart)
    • Blacktown Spartans 0-0 Manly United
    • Bankstown City (Baxter Thew) 1-2 Sydney Olympic (Charlie Rule, Claudia Cholakian)
    • APIA Leichhardt (Shea Connors hat trick) 3-1 Illawarra Stingrays (Tayleah Handcock)
    • postponed: Emerging Jets v Macarthur Rams (washout) and Sydney University v Football NSW Institute (Institute players called up to the Junior Matildas camp in South Australia)
    • both Sydney Uni and FNSW Institute have women coaches – ex-Canberra United assistant coach Emily Husband at Uni, Lisa Warrener at Institute
    • catchup games: Tuesday (the time of recording) – Blacktown Spartans 1-0 Sydney University, Thursday – Football NSW Institute v Manly United
  • QLD
  • VIC – Round 4 of 21
    • Full Season Guide – 3 women coaches (Kat Smith – Alamein, Caitlin Friend – Bulleen Lions, Helen Winterburn – FV Emerging)
    • (4) Calder United (Harriet Withers) 1-2 (2) Heidelberg United (Grace Jale, Melissa Maizels)
    • (8) South Melbourne (Tijan McKenna, Claudia Mihocic) v (6) FV Emerging (Sarah Cain, Caitlin Karic, Bella Sewards, Miranda Templeman) POSTPONED
    • (3) Alamein (Amy Jackson, Nia Stamatopoulos) 1-1 (5) Box Hill United (Teigen Allen, Mindy Barbieri, Sofia Sakalis)
    • (7) Bayside United 0-7 (1) Bulleen Lions (Tiffany Eliadis, Gabriela Garton, Alana Jancevski, Lia Privitelli, Rebekah Stott, Tyla Jay Vlajnic, Paige Zois)

Queens of the Week

Cheryl – uncharacteristically spreads a rumour

Dale – Wendie Renard made her 100th UEFA Champions League appearance

Eric – Claudia Cholakian from NPL NSW side Sydney Olympic, because 1) she scored an 89th minute winner on Sunday against Bankstown City 2) she received her second cap for Armenia in the most recent international window

Maj – Caroline Graham Hansen scored a “dirty” goal

Steffen – 1) Sammie Wood, an ex-Junior and Young Matilda who also played for Newcastle Jets and Canberra United. Sammie is known more as a Super W Brumbies player and a rugby league player, however she quietly signed for Tuggeranong United this year. Her participation in the game against Canberra Croatia on Friday marks a return to football at age 30 after 6 years. Tuggeranong now have a couple of super Sammies (the other being Sammie Emms)!
2) Michaela Thornton, who scored her first international goal in 16 years (last time was on grass) playing in the ProFutsal tournament against Indonesia 

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