As I'm just a little flat-out again, here are some previews from the very talented staff at the
Central Coast Mariners and Canberra United to read while I get my own stuff happening. Well written
and interesting, thanks both Joseph (Mariners) and Chris (Canberra).
Washington to Central Coast – Golebiowski leading Mariners causeBy Joseph CarlucciThe dream of each Australian female footballer is to play at the highest level and represent the
Matildas at a World Cup, and for the lucky few that get the chance to don the Green and Gold, the
feeling is immense.
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So we're halfway through the season now and I think the teams that will challenge for the title,
Brisbane Roar, Sydney FC and the Central Coast Mariners, have separated themselves from the
pack.
I still think that Brisbane are the team to beat (can anyone say depth? they have it in spades),
but there are also a few variables that I think may just come into it.
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Her ABC TV commentating W-League debut that is. I was excited to hear that both Chez and the lovely
Amy Taylor were joining the ABC TV commentary team this year (although Julie Murray and Liz
Deep-Jones were also very good last year), but it's particulary exciting to have someone like
Salisbury in the box - who clearly has such great knowledge of all the girls playing.
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So this afternoon the second season of the Westfield W-League will kick off, the same eight clubs,
but new players and coaches everywhere. But shall we just take a minute to think about the first
season? Here girlswithgame takes a look at its top five moments from season 2008.
5. Canberra United's late rush to draw with Perth Glory in Round 6.
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Yay, the new season of the W-League is just two sleeps away and finally, the squads are here.
So who's in and out? Probably won't know exactly what will happen until the team's line-up but
certainly some interesting last minute signings. Here are the interesting parts of the previews,
game by game.
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The second season of the Westfield W-League will be different, no questions about that. But how and
why? And what will Westfield Matildas coach Tom Sermanni be looking out for?
Hear from the man himself, who told girlswithgame what he expects when the league kicks off this
weekend, including more impact from international players, some of the players to watch and that
the Number 1 goalkeeping role for the AFC Cup next year is wide open.
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So last year Canberra United coach Robbie Hooker went out on a limb and picked the youngest
captain, by about five years, in the Westfield W-League - Ellie Brush. This year Brush turned 21,
and as such won't be the youngest captain in the league, the new title goes to Brisbane Roar's new
leader Clare Polkinghorne, 20.
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Yay, the second season of the Westfield W-League is almost upon us!
First of all, some notes from the weekend's Matildas camp. There was no WA girls as the ones who
would have been invited, Collette McCallum and Lisa de Vanna, were on route back from America where
they both played in the finals of the American WPS league (McCallum won it with her team Sky Blue
FC).
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So the Matildas have arrived in Canberra for their final camp before this year's W-League.
Westfield Matildas coach Tom Sermanni has picked 36-player squad, including a number of under-18
players.
But interestingly, no-one from Perth in the camp. Every other state has one representative, but no
West Australian's among them.
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Less than two weeks out now, and woo hoo, another squad! So with Canberra United (who may still
have a few high profile names to come, and one that is very unexpected but exciting), the Central
Coast Mariners, Brisbane Roar and now Melbourne, we are at the halfway mark for teams.
So here is Melbourne, most back from last year including international Marlies Oostdam, who is
joined by two new international visitors, American Julianne Sitch (from women's pro soccer
champions Sky Blue FC) and Canadian Katie Thorlakson.
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Around this time last year Canberra girl Grace Gill was an ACTAS players who still hoped of getting
to the Matildas again (she had been thereabouts before, made the Young Matildas squad for a World
Cup but didn't play and only had one Matildas cap), but no real way of getting there.
Fast-forward to this week and in the last 12-months, Gill would have claimed her second Matildas if
not for ill-timed ankle injuries and she has been in every senior Matildas camp since the W-League
finished.
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So after my first attempt at this failed kind of miserably, this space is having a makeover. From
now on, it will be a hub to find out about all things W-League and Australian women's soccer in
Australia, Matildas, Young Matildas and every other age-group in between.
But particulary with the second W-League season just a few months away, and not much news out there
at all, I will endeavour to find some.
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Football NSW Launches ‘Project 22'
Free to all selected players, this highly professional development setup allows players
to train up to five (5) times a week – for 40 weeks of the year – with highly experienced and
qualified instructors.
Now it's time for Canberra to follow, not neccessarily in the same form, but develop we must.
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Aaron Walker, Eamonn (me) and Paddy Bordier discuss A-League crowds, the Gold Coast, Pim's
Socceroos squad, and our differing views on our Young Matildas and keep you up-to-date with the key
football news in Australia.
Haven't got Fox? Where better to get your Aussie football news on the radio.
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Our most viewed post of the past week featured pictures of the Australia vs. China Women's AFC
Under-19 Championship post-match brawl. In the aftermath of the incident, Football Federation
Australia will has stated that it will interview players, coaching staff and management of the
Young Matildas in an investigation.
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"Who's that," said the young girl watching the team in Australian colours fighting the team in
Chinese colours on the telly.
"That's the Matildas," replied the Mum.
Well I saw my friend Tom Sermanni defending the Young Matildas and I know some of the shenanigans
that have gone on in games against the Chinese and North Koreans in the past but what the team did
in response to a player allegedly being tripped, debatable from the footage in my opinion, what the
player and team did is.
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National Download: Bernie Lustica, Lucy Zelic and Aaron Walker talk A-League, Young Matildas and
more.
What are the Gold Coast up to? Why the Young Matildas loss is so disastrous and all the previews of
the coming games.
Local Download: Peter Funnell catches up with Tuggies United Tech Director Eugene Lawrenz
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An fiercely contested AFC Women's Under-19 Championship soccer match between hosts China and
Australia ended with a mass brawl earlier today. According to sportal.com.au: ...following the
final whistle, an Australia player fell to the ground while remonstrating with the Chinese,
prompting captain Tameka Butt to charge across the pitch and grab the perceived offender.
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Not so yin and yang.
After a massive brawl on the field had settled down between the two countries' U19 girls soccer
teams at the Asian Women's U-19 Championship, the violence was not quite over.
Once order was restored, several plastic water bottles were thrown from the crowd in
the direction of the Australian team - whose ages range from 15 to 19 - as they made their way down
the tunnel with local police imploring fans to stop the behaviour.
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The most unlikeliest event where you'd ever see violence, the Asian Women's Under-19 Championship
witnessed shocking scenes in China last night, where the Australia team were pelted with bottles by
a highly charged crowd following a mass brawl at the end of China's match against the Young
Matildas.
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An Australian sports show talking about male sports. Two women hosts and one male.
Can this be right? Should this be allowed? Is this Australian history.
Wouldn't happen on SBS, FoxSports or Channel 9 would it...or maybe it has?
Lucy Zelic, Michella Bertrand and Aaron Walker.
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Is this the only sports show where women outnumber men?
Is there any other show about male sports where there are more women than men on tv or the
airwaves.
This is un-Australian and should be stopped immediately.
Tonight Lucy Zelic and Michella Bertrand join Aaron Walker on the Nearpost.
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National show: Download
Russ Gibbs, Aaron Walker and Eamonn Flanagan discuss Socceroos, Nicky Carle, Young Matildas and the
Jets in Asia. Quiz questions and we dedicate the show to Weetbix. Who else in Australian media is
covering the Jets this week. Not many?
Local show: Download
All the local news with Russ Gibbs and Peter Funnell and George Hutiker local football author,
manager, teacher, observer discusses the talented pathway for our Aussie children.
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Canberra United full-back Nicole Sykes scored three on debut for Young Matildas, she wore the
number 9 shirt...hey isn't Ashleigh meant to be the striker, Nic!
7-0 the YM's thrashed Finland. Nice one!
VARESE
Tuesday 26 May 2009
A hat-trick of goals to Angela Fimmano and Nicole Sykes has helped the Westfield Young Matildas to
an impressive 7-0 victory over the Finland U-19 Women's Team in Italy yesterday.
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Canberran Bronwyn Studman played the full ninety with the United Sykes twins on the bench.
And of course followers of the W-League will recognise most if not all of these players...and we
couldn't say that before could we?
The Westfield Young Matildas have kicked off their European Tour with an emphatic 4-1 victory over
the Finland U-19 Women's Team in Varese, Italy, yesterday.
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Tom Sermanni talks Matildas..change to advertised topics earlier...next week apparently!
We talk ACL, National Curriculum, and have all review the Mariners defeat..again.
Locally Aaron Walker talks National Curriculum some more and we have all the local scores, opinions
and all things football.
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Canberra United players Ashleigh and Nicole Sykes maybe be barred from playing in their local
Dubbo/Bathurst Under 18 team in the Western District boys league...but the story has reached the
FFA....
And the FFA has it seems engaged their Legal Department quicksmart.
Some members of the local association were laughing almost mocking when I rang them recently.
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Squad details below
SYDNEY
22 April 2009
Head Coach of the Westfield Young Matildas, Alen Stajcic, has selected a 27-player squad for the
training camp at Valentine Sports Park in Glenwood, Sydney, from Saturday 25 April through to
Monday 27 April.
The camp, another in a series being conducted, forms part of the preparations for the upcoming AFC
U-19 Women's Championships 2009 to be held in the Chinese city of Wuhan from 1 to 12 August.
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Aussie Under 13 boys and 14 girls teams will be selected from this weeks State trials in Canberra
starting Sunday.....oh and btw the fields chosen for our nation's best should suit the least
talented!
Fixtures and squads below....
As part of our new place in Asia apparently we need a young girls and boys team.
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Mike Cockerill writes today that a Coaching School is on the way in Australia..but what about a
football school, not an all-sports school, a football school for kids, boys and girls from Primary
to Year 12.
With Australia and Canberra's junior base, our football profile and Socceroos, A-League, Matildas
and W-League, it won't be long before someone provides the people what they want.
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ALL ABOUT MEMy name is... Lydia Williams and I was born on May 13th 1988 in Katanning, WA.
I play... football for Canberra United and the Matildas.
I grew up in... Kalgoorlie, WA. Gold mining capital of Australia!!
I believe... that you need to have fun and enjoy the game, the success follows.
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Futblog 29 December @ 09:42 PM EST
Se acerca el Fin de año y al parecer las Matildas están de nuevo de moda, por eso con sus
nuevas contrataciones, oh perdón son la selección Femenil de Australia han creado un
calendario , las fotos son del año pasado pero tu puedes ver las y si te gustan hacer uno
propio del 2009.
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