Four years is a long time. Over the past 48 months, the world has experienced a pandemic, the Australian women’s national team finished fourth at the Tokyo Olympics and Caitlin Foord has excelled after joining WSL heavyweights Arsenal.
But four years after the Matildas were knocked out of the 2019 Women’s World Cup, by Norway on a summer evening in Nice, it might as well have been yesterday. Speaking to the Guardian via Zoom, the heartbreak of that shootout loss in the round of 16 flashes across Foord’s face.
