Matildas goalkeeper Lydia Williams’ sporting heroes hailed from a different football code when she was growing up in a frontier mining town in the Western Australian desert, on the traditional lands of the Wangkatja group of peoples.
“I grew up playing footy when I was in Kalgoorlie, and my idols when I was really young were Peter Matera and Gavin Wanganeen, and all of those guys [from] the [AFL’s] West Coast Eagles,” she says.
