Heather Garriock (Photo by Robert Cianflone/Getty Images), Kim Little (Photo by Marc Atkins/Getty Images)
Heather Garriock (Photo by Robert Cianflone/Getty Images), Kim Little (Photo by Marc Atkins/Getty Images)

The team are joined by Kerry Harris from Women Onside, and Cheryl gives a big shoutout to their upcoming Women in Football Leadership conference. Eric gives a rundown on the new Wellington Phoenix W-League side and the latest player movement, while Steffen drives us towards the end of the Nordic season (or Iceland at the very least).

 

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UWCL – Round 2

Seven Aussies remain

  • Winners
    • Lyon (Ellie Carpenter) defeated Levante 2-1 (agg 4-2)
    • BK Häcken (Dylan Holmes 🟨) progress with a 3-2 win (agg 6-3) over Vålerenga
    • Arsenal (Steph Catley, Lydia Williams) 4-0 win over Slavia Praha sees them progress comfortably (agg 7-0). Caitlin Foord is currently injured.
    • Servette FCCF (Tessa Tamplin) defeated Glasgow City (Aoife Colvill) 2-1 (agg 3-2).

16 teams remain including Chelsea (Sam Kerr) with the group draw scheduled Monday. You can watch all the games on DAZN Youtube.

  • Losers
    • Glasgow City (Aoife Colvill) lost 1-2 to Servette FCCF (Tessa Tamplin). An aggregate of 2-3 sees the end Aoife’s run.
    • FC Rosengård (Charlotte Grant, Teagan Micah) claimed a 3-3 draw against Hoffenheim but it wasn’t enough (agg 6-3)
    • Manchester City (Alanna Kennedy, Hayley Raso) bow out after a 0-1 loss against Real Madrid (agg 1-2)

Asia

WE League (Japan)

UK

FAWSL

Scottish WPL

Europe

France – D1F

Italy – Serie A

Netherlands – Eredivisie

Nordic

An international break will pause proceedings for the next fortnight, but all Nordic nations enjoyed action on the weekend.

Norway Toppserien Round 13 (of 18)

  • Toppserien Youtube channel
  • (3) LSK Kvinner FK (Karly Roestbakken) 
  • (9) Klepp IL (Nikola Orgill) 
  • No Toppserien action but both teams played each either at LSK Hall in the quarterfinals of the NM Cup, with the home side looking good in a 3-0 victory.
  • Some chance of seeing both Aussies in action after the break. 

Sweden Damallsvenskan Round 16 (of 22) 

  • (1) FC Rosengård (Charli Grant, Teagan Micah)
    • 1-2 away win vs Hammarby
    • Teagan played 90′ but had a role in Hammarby’s extra time goal in attempting to clear the ball
    • Charli on the card for Rosengard but saw no game time
    • KK not listed and provided an update this week that she is dealing with chronic pain and in for surgery this week   
  • (2) BK Häcken (Dylan Holmes)
    • 2-0 home win vs KIF Örebro DFF
    • Dylan an unused sub
    • 10 points clear of 3rd placed Eskilstuna United but 6 short of Rosengard 
  • (4) Hammarby (Elise Kellond Knight)
    • see above
  • (7) Vittsjö (Clare Polkinghorne)
    • Polks played 90′ as Vittsjö drew 2-2 away to Djurgården
  •  (12) Växjö (Winonah Heatley)
    • 2-1 away loss to 3rd placed Eskilstuna United
    • Wini on the bench, no game time
    • bottom of the ladder, last 3 games narrow 1 goal losses

Denmark Round 6 (of 14)

Iceland Round 18 (of 18) – the season is over!

  • (5) UMF Selfoss (Emma Checker)
    • Emma played 90′ in a 5-0 loss away to champs Valur Reykjavik. She can be proud of her season, taking the helm as captain and navigating them through a rough patch after the team enjoyed an excellent start to the season. Selfoss finished 5th 
1.dield (First division)
  • (1) KR Reykjavik (Aideen Keane) 
    • Aideen scored the final goal of the KR season as they won 0-3 away vs Grotta. KR are champions and are promoted. A short but very sweet season for Aideen, scoring in every game she played, and the club can’t have asked for anything more from her.

USA

NWSL

Queens of the Week

Eric:

  • Kim Little received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Hertfordshire for her contribution to sport and football, so from this day forward she shall be referred to as Dr. Kim Little. 
  • Abbie Brown from English fourth division side Leeds United – two weekends ago she scored an 87th minute winner to seal her team’s third consecutive win and take them to the top of the Women’s National League Division One North.

Steffen:

  • Heather Garriock (also recently appointed to the Football Australia board as noted in last week’s episode – (snippets from Canberra Times article, behind paywall) Seven female taekwondo athletes have arrived safely in Australia as refugees after a week-long operation to extract them from Afghanistan, championed by Heather Garriock.

Garriock, the head of Australian Taekwondo, received a call from Afghan native and Melbourne-based international referee Ali Rahimi late last month.

She immediately phoned ex-Socceroo and human rights campaigner Craig Foster, who offered advice on how to best rescue the group. Garriock then contacted the president of World Taekwondo Oceania who is also an immigration lawyer. As requisite paperwork was drawn up, a logistical operation to evacuate the group from Afghanistan was put together, but flying out of Kabul wasn’t an option after the Taliban regained control of the country.
 
“Plan B was can we get them across the Pakistan border which is extremely dangerous with women since the Taliban has taken over,” Garriock said. “Long story short basically, the girls went through hell.

“They said it was horrific, there were gunshots, the border closed at one stage because fights broke out. For those women to cross the Pakistan border is such a feat within itself, it’s just really unheard of.

“There was a moment there where we knew they were travelling, and for two and a half hours they were offline. It was so scary because straight away you’re thinking the worst.”

After crossing the border, the women had to travel a further 20 hours to Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital city.

They stayed there for a few days before catching a flight to Dubai, and eventually to Darwin.

“They’re now refugees in Australia, and they’ll remain refugees for the next four years, then they can become permanent residents,” Garriock said.

“There’s one that we’re still waiting. She lived in a different part of Afghanistan and it was too dangerous for her to travel with the girls so we’re in the midst of trying to get her to Australia.

Cheryl:

  • Sam Kerr for a brace and an early 100th celebration (touch wood)

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