PODCAST | Ella Mastrantonio and Rhali Dobson

Special guest Ella Mastrantonio joins the pod and Rhali Dobson shares some insights on her Australian Story appearance.

As usual, Steffen and Cheryl discuss the week in football, while Eric leaves impressive notes to ensure his “affection” for Manly United is well-maintained. Mr George P Butterball has a timeout and makes his pod debut.

Ella Mastrantonio

• 103 W-League appearances (for Perth, Melbourne Victory and WSW) and 1 goal
• A great season with Bristol City, including this great goal

12 years, 5 months, and 25 days.

The gap between Westfield @TheMatildas games for @Ella_Mas11.

Never give up 👏 pic.twitter.com/TsZNibGMdp

— Westfield Matildas (@TheMatildas) April 16, 2021

Thank you @thepfa for my updated highlights video. Amazing help as always 👏🏼 https://t.co/oq7rORWgZB

— Ella Mastrantonio (@Ella_Mas11) April 15, 2021

Hot Topics

• 51 Days until the Tokyo Olympics
• 5 year, $200m deal with Channel 10 to broadcast W-League (and A-League)
  • One W-League match per week (Sunday afternoons), shown on 10Bold, and syndicated on 10Play, the network’s free streaming service.
  • Broadcast responsibility shared with APL to ensure minimum standards are met
  • The other games behind a paywall on Paramount+ ($8.99 per month, launching August 11)
  • Will we still get “Hersday night Football”?
• Catherine Cannuli announced as Head Coach of the Western Sydney Wanderers
• FIFA announces Dave Beeche as new CEO of FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™
• The rule regarding U18 players in the NWSL challenged successfully by Olivia Moultrie

Around the World

Scottish Women’s Premier League

Glasgow City (Aoife Colvill) and Celtic United (Jacynta Galabadaarachchi) currently sit 1st and 2nd on the table with one round to go, and both teams are likely to qualify for the UWCL.

Nordic

Norway Toppserien Round 2

• (3) Klepp IL (Nikola Orgill, played all 90’) 1-0 at home VS Stabæk Fotball
• (5) LSK Kvinner FK (Karly Roestbakken, watched from sideline) – opened their season with a 5-2 home win over Arna-Bjørnar, were 5-0 up in the second half. Midweek game coming up against Lyn (postponed from Round 1)
• (4) IL Sandviken (Teagan Micah, on debut, 5 weeks after knee surgery) 3-0 home win over Avaldsnes.
• Olympics squad announcements – will Tony Gustavsson include Teagan Micah in the Olympics squad?

Sweden Damallsvenskan Round 7

• (2) BK Häcken (Dylan Holmes) 0-3 vs KIF Örebro DFF, Dylan an unused sub
• (5) Hammarby (Elise Kellond-Knight looking on) 3-1 home win vs Kristianstads
• (1) FC Rosengård (Charli Grant) won 0-7 away to newly promoted AIK
• (7) Vittsjö (Emily Gielnik, Clare Polkinghorne) 1-1 away to Eskilstuna United, Emily and Polks played full 90’, Emily scored in the 36’

Denmark (Round 9 of 10)

• Fortuna Hjørring (Indiah Paige Riley) – Champions series – 0-1 away win vs Kolding IF
• AGF Aarhus (Hannah Bacon) – Promotion/Relegation series – 3-2 home win vs B. 93 

Iceland Round 5

• UMF Selfoss (Emma Checker, played 90’) 0-0 home draw vs Fylkir, 53’ with 10 players

NWSL

Kansas City – No sign of Chloe Logarzo and they surely need her with Kansas winless so far.

Europe

D1F (France)

A 0-0 result from the megaclash between second-place Lyon and top of the table PSG

The final round this week offers a slim chance for Ellie Carpenter and Lyon to win the championship, but it would rely on PSG losing to Dijon, who currently sit in 8th place.

Serie A Women (Italy)

Coppa Italia Cup Women
Milan (Natasha Dowie, Veronica Boquette) 0-0 (1-3 pens) Roma

Eredivisie Vrouwen (Netherlands)

• Last game of the season for (2) PSV (Amy Harrison, Kyah Simon not listed) 2-1 (1) Twente
• KNVB Cup final (June 6th) – ADO Den Haag v PSV

NPLW Roundup

NSW

• Eric called the top of the table clash between Macarthur Rams and FNSW Institute
• APIA Leichhardt 2-3 Sydney Olympic – the inaugural Festival of Football

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ACT

• Round 8, start of 2nd full round
• A couple of terrific goalkeeping performances
• 15 year old CUA goalkeeper Chloe Lincoln had an outstanding game. 
• Next week is Federation Cup Final weekend – West Canberra vs Canberra Croatia FC

VIC

No matches. All Football/Futsal activities from 11.59pm Thursday May 27 until 11.59pm Thursday, June 3 will be postponed

Queen of the Week

Cheryl’s very pleased to see another woman at the helm of a W-League team so Catherine Cannuli gets her nod.

Eric selects Maja Markovski for her hat trick against Manly United. He also names everyone in the Bankstown City team as a queen. Before last weekend, they hadn’t won in 714 days, and they kept their first clean sheet since 27 May 2018.

Steffen nominates 15 year old Canberra United Academy keeper Chloe Lincoln for her display between the posts against Canberra Croatia FC.