“Are you sure?” Alex Chidiac had to double check when she found out she was in the Matildas World Cup squad. The coach, Tony Gustavsson, had no reason to joke or lie, but Chidiac simply couldn’t process what she was hearing.
“I really had no clue how to handle it,” she said. “I just hadn’t really fully thought of that as an outcome because I think I was protecting myself from that news four years ago.”
