Mary Fowler, Photo by Matt King/Getty Images for Football Australia) | Hills United (image credit: Hills United Football Club Facebook page)
Mary Fowler, Photo by Matt King/Getty Images for Football Australia) | Hills United (image credit: Hills United Football Club Facebook page)

Our special guest is Matildas Cap 98, Belinda Kitching!

For this extra long podcast, Cheryl regains her starting position – she’s joined by Maj, Dale & Neil.

History: Belinda Kitching, Matildas Cap 98

Matildas Debut: 1996 (played for the national team until 1999)
Position: Goalkeeper
Appearances: 32

  • 1999 Women’s World Cup
  • Coach Tweed Heads Women, United Warriors, Harvey Bay, Western Pride FC

Read: Kitching Claims Top Job

Hot Topics

  • News

    • Dolan Warren Awards
      • Young Footballer of the Year: Holly McNamara (MCY)
      • Golden Boot: Fiona Worts (ADL)
      • Goal of the Year: Rachel Lowe (SYD)
      • Goalkeeper of the Year: Casey Dumont (MVC)
      • Coach of the Year: Adrian Stenta (ADL)
      • Julie Dolan Medalist: Fiona Worts (ADL)
      • Referee of the Year: Lara Lee
      • The awards weren’t broadcast anywhere, why not?
    • PFA Awards
      • PFA Women’s Footballer of the Year: Sam Kerr
      • PFA Young Women’s Footballer of the Year: Mary Fowler
    • Young Matildas camp

Around the World

UK

  • Scottish Cup Final

    Celtic (Jacynta Galabadaarachchi) 3-2 Glasgow City (Aoife Colvill)

    • Jacynta started, played 85 minutes and set up Celtic’s first goal
    • The game went to extra time, Irish international Izzy Atkinson scored the winner for Celtic in the 113th minute

Europe

France – D1F (21 of 22)

Nordic

  • Norway – Toppserien Rounds 10 & 11
    • (5) LSK Kvinner (Karly Roestbakken, not named in these games, foot soreness)
      • last minute 1-0 away loss vs (3) Rosenborg, Fiona Worts on at halftime
      • overnight 2-0 home win vs (6) Stabæk, first league start for Fiona, she scored and assisted
    • (2) Vålerenga (Ally Green, not selected, hard team to break into & they usually play a back three)
      • strong 4-1 away win against Stabaek
      • 1-1 home draw vs Rosenborg
  • Sweden – Svenska Cupen Final, and Damallsvenkan Round 11
    • (2) FC Rosengard (Teagan Micah, Charli Grant)
      • epic 2-1 second period of extra time Cup Final win vs BK Häcken (1-1 at FT)
        • full game for Teagan; and a start, a 112′ yellow card, and 114′ in total for Charli (Sweden captain Caroline Seger was on the bench and replaced her)

      • R11 game vs Pitea is played 31/5
    • (7) Hammarby (Kyra Cooney-Cross, Elise Kellond-Knight, Courtney Nevin)
        • in the one remaining R10 game from the last pod, Hammarby won 2-1 away vs Djurgarden, with the late winner set up by Courtney Nevin‘s corner delivery. Courtney played a full match and was selected in Viaplay’s team of R10. 
        • overnight: R11 5-1 away win vs (11) Kalmar, Courtney scored the 2nd and played 90′ 
        • Kyra Cooney-Cross not yet available for selection
    • (4) Vittsjö GIK (Clare Polkinghorne, Katrina Gorry)
      • overnight: 3-0 home win vs (13) Brommapojkarna, Mini registered an assist, Polks and Mini both played 90′
    • (14) AIK (Remy Siemsen)
      • overnight: lost 4-0 at home vs (3) Linköpings, Remy came on at 56′
    • Elitettan: after R8 completion last week, (4) Växjö DFF announced Annie Haffenden and they were parting ways by mutual consent
  • Denmark  
    • (2) Fortuna Hjørring (Angie Beard, Indi Riley, Clare Wheeler) 2-0 home win vs KoldingQ in R9 (from 10) of the champions round robins
      • Angie and Clare played 90′, Indi’s ankle injury still troubling her from the Cup Final
    • (2) AGF (Jenna McCormick) 2-0 home win vs (6) Odense in R9 (of 10) of the promotion/relegation round robins
      • Jenna played 83′
      • all but guarantees AGF’s place in the Elitedivisionen, according to the club
  • Iceland – Urvalsdeild Round 6, and Icelandic (Milk) Cup games
    • (2) Thróttur (Gema Simon)
      • R6: won 2-1 away to (7) Keflavik, Gema played 90′
      • Cup: 2-1 win vs Vinkingur Reykjavik
    • (10) KR Reykjavik (Margaux Chauvet, Susan Phonsongkham)
      • R6: recorded a first win, 1-0 at home vs (9) Afturelding
        • both Aussies were yellow carded and played 90′
        • Susan was awarded Player of the Match
      • Cup: 6-0 win vs Akranes, first club goal for Susan
    • (6) Breidablik (Melina Ayres)
      • R6: 0-1 away loss to (1) Valur, Melina played 84′
      • Cup: overnight, 4-1 win vs Fjardab/Hottur/Leiknir (and no, Steffen didn’t make that name up just to test your Nordic pronunciation in his absence 🙂 )

US – NWSL (5 of 20)

Watch matches on twitch.tv/NWSLOfficial, twitch.tv/NWSLOfficial2, twitch.tv/NWSLOfficial3 & twitch.tv/NWSLOfficial4

State Football

  • ACT
    • Belconnen United (Tatum Mazis x 2, Olivia Bomford x 2, Talia Backhouse, Keira Bobbin) 6-1 Tuggeranong United (Karen Milewska)
    • West Canberra Wanderers (Hattie Cram x 2, Tara Cannon) 3-1 Gungahlin United (Sharon Chao) – our Match of the Round, keep an eye out for Steffen’s wrap
    • Canberra Olympic (Michaela Thornton x 3, Meg Roden x 2, Tianah Miro, Brittany Fiorese) 7-1 Wagga City Wanderers (Megan Castle)
    • Canberra United Academy (Jaya Bowman x 2) 2-7 Canberra Croatia (Jennifer Bisset x 3, Jamie Berkeley, Grace Gill, Sienna Birnie, Dianne Wilson)
  • NSW
    • (Tuesday catchup game) Northern Tigers 0-0 Blacktown Spartans
    • Northern Tigers (Ash Brodigan x 2) 2-2 Bankstown City (Paige Hayward, Siobhan Edwards)
    • Emerging Jets (Claire Adams) 1-1 Football NSW Institute (Daniela Galic)
    • Macarthur Rams (Patty Charalambous, Beth Gordon) 2-0 Manly United – our Match of the Round, keep an eye out for Eric’s wrap
    • Sydney University (Holly Caspers x 2, Rola Badawiya) 3-1 Illawarra Stingrays (Alicia Meuronen)
    • NWS Spirit (Morgan Roberts) 1-6 Sydney Olympic (Charlie Rule x 3, Mackenzie Hawkesby x 2, Cortnee Vine)
    • APIA Leichhardt (Shea Connors, Deborah-Anne de la Harpe) 2-1 Blacktown Spartans (Rosie Galea)
  • QLD
    • Moreton Bay United 1-0 Olympic FC
    • Lions FC 3-2 QAS
    • Souths United 1-2 Capalaba
  • VIC – Round 9 of 21
    • Full Season Guide
    • (5) Box Hill United (Teigen Allen, Mindy Barbieri, Sofia Sakalis) 1-1 (3) Bulleen Lions (Tiffany Eliadis, Gabriela Garton, Alana Jancevski, Lia Privitelli, Rebekah Stott, Tyla Jay Vlajnic, Paige Zois)
    • (4) Alamein (Amy Jackson, Nia Stamatopoulos) 1-2 (1) Heidelberg United (Grace Jale, Melissa Maizels)
    • (7) South Melbourne (Tijan McKenna, Claudia Mihocic) 9-0 (8) Bayside United
    • (6) FV Emerging (Sarah Cain, Caitlin Karic, Bella Sewards, Miranda Templeman) 0-5 (2) Calder United (Harriet Withers)

Queens of the Week

Cheryl – Courtney Nevin scored in Hammarby’s 5-1 win over Kalmar

Dale – Blacktown Spartans forward Abbey Lemon was called up to another Young Matildas camp!

Eric – Hills United have remained undefeated through the first half of the Football NSW League One Women’s regular season (14 wins, 1 draw) – a special shoutout to their goalkeeper Sarah Easthope for keeping eight clean sheets

Maj – Mary Fowler was ranked 10th in ESPN’s Top 20 players under the age of 20

Neil – Perth Redstar now have eight wins from eight games to start the 2022 NPLW WA season, scoring at least three goals in each victory

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