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Les Murray on SBS's website wrote an article about the W-League coming of age this year -
presumably because he watched the Grand Final and enjoyed it. Apparently the league is full of
players with great technical skills this year!
Rubbish Les - not much has changed. The point being the standard from the top few teams has always
been pretty high and remains so.
When was the last time a Canberra team got to a football final, a home final?
Not the Cosmos - remember them?
So when Canberra United walk out for their home semi this weekend Canberra sports fans will be
watching history in the making.
And while the Melbourne Victory will make a very tough opponent, United under new Czech Coach Jitka
Klimkova have lifted to a new level this season.
It's hot! Bloody hot.
Australian summer can be a bit like that, can't it, even this year. My friends are gathered, some
want to sit close, others are over dressed, most in green.
Chocolate cake! On a summers day? I went for hot chips!
Move over, it's getting hotter, but there's no space, not in the Canberra stands.
Canberra United are top of the league. By some margin.
Sally Shipard and Caitlin Munoz are in outstanding form and with Ashleigh Sykes scoring freely now
- Michelle Heyman always scores, and US import Taryn Hemmings belting it home on the weekend, the
good folk from the Capital are starting to get cocky!
Now the dust has settled and the brief coverage of the Matildas in our national media has
disappeared I thought someone should review the campaign.
While it was no doubt, with two wins, the best ever performance by a Matildas team, qualifying for
the Quarter Finals and picking up the best Young Player in the World Cup in Caitlin Foord, one
shouldn't be too harsh in review, perhaps!
It's always painful to see your team lose a crucial game, but it hurts more when you concede the
game to the opposition rather than being simply outplayed.
Australia gave so many poor goals away in this tournament - they'll be remembered for that - but
last nights final goal that smashed the World Cup dreams of us all was the worst yet.
If we play like that we'll never beat USA conquerors Sweden.
Wily fox Tom Sermanni ditched Emily Van Egmond, left Sally Shipard on the bench and went for a
three pronged attack against previous World Cup winners Norway this morning - a team we'd never
beaten.
The results said it worked.
Sometimes things in football surprise and delight you.
The performances of Canberra United star Emily Van Egmond, just 17, at the World Cup are doing just
that.
Anyone who watched Van Egmond for Canberra United saw a strong young player time and time again
unable to vary her game from a long, long passing game to something more creative.
Celtic fan Collette McCallum introduced the Celtic anthem to the Matildas side in 2007 and when the
team plays like this Australians can finally say as the song says - we don't care if we win lose or
draw.
Because the Matildas are playing the best football ever seen by a women's Australian side.
Sally Shipard in Germany
http://beta.offexploring.com/chasingleather/blog/germany/dasseldorf/2011-06-25%2018%3A57%3A42
And even the SMH are into it. Lisa De Vanna getting the treatment in the SMH today, yesterday great
piece on Kyah Symon.
Matildas - making real in roads into the Aussie sporting community.
Sally (Shipard) tweeted:
MATILDAS Internal GAME 2moro (saturday) 2:30pm AIS!Come have a squiz.All vying for
WORLD CUP selection.Will be a competitive entertain
As usual it's all happening in Canberra:
The Olyroos were in town this week - the Young Socceroos and Mustafa Amini was spotted at the AIS
swimming pool during the week.
