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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Rebecca Shaw

Australians all let us rejoice – and back the magnificent Matildas at the Women’s World Cup

Matildas Australia Football World Cup Fifa
Sam Kerr of the Matildas signs celebrates with team mates after winning the Cup of Nations match between the Australia and Jamaica in Newcastle in February
‘The Matildas are full of heart, full of confidence and full of talent. Australia is going to be buzzing.’ Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images

I have been a women’s football fan for a very long time. No, that is not a euphemism for “being a lesbian” but yes I am also a lesbian. If you don’t know, it’s a very exciting time to be a football fan/lesbian in Australia and Aotearoa at the moment, because in July we will be hosting the 2023 Women’s World Cup! This is a humongous global event. There are plenty of people excited about it, thousands will travel here to barrack for their teams and Fifa predicts that more than 2 billion people will watch worldwide.

I am here to demand that some of those 2 billion are you. It’s time for Australians to get behind our team and behind this tournament. We also happen to have a home team to barrack for with immense heart and huge talent hitting their stride at the right time. It was only a couple of weeks ago that the Matildas (under Tony Gustavsson), defeated the world’s most in-form team, England, ending their 30-game winning streak. Surely beating England is something we can all get behind.

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