At 6am on a Sunday morning in November 2022, hundreds of fans and families gathered in a park in Sydney’s inner west to watch a men’s World Cup football match between Australia and Argentina.
The site was awash with dogs, bleary-eyed Sydneysiders clutching coffee cups and eager families hauling blankets. For dozens of young girls in the crowd, though, the Socceroos narrowly losing to Lionel Messi and co were merely a prelude to the main event, to take place months later.
