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Speaker 1: Oh.

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Speaker 2: The Matilda's World Cup hopes came to an end last night,

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Speaker 2: beaten in the semi final by England three to one.

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Speaker 2: Someone who didn't miss a minute of their amazing run

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Speaker 2: is Channel seven's Sports Straordinaire and a Hay.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Hello.

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Speaker 2: How are you okay? Are you all right?

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Speaker 1: Are you okay? I'm okay? Yeah, yeah, not what I

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Speaker 1: was hoping for along the whole of her country, but

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Speaker 1: I think I'm alone.

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Speaker 2: So you know where to now. There's been an unprecedented

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Speaker 2: out pouring for this team over the past few weeks.

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Speaker 2: Will they be able to carry that through to their

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Speaker 2: advantage now? Are they likely to see some more investment

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Speaker 2: in their sport coming their way?

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Speaker 1: Well hopefully. I mean Sam Kerr did ask for more

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Speaker 1: financial support to ensure that, you know, the semifinal in

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Speaker 1: the World Cup was not just one off. She basically said,

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Speaker 1: we do need more funding at the ground roots. And

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Speaker 1: I did go to her club, on her former club,

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Speaker 1: the Western Nights, on Tuesday, and they said that they

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Speaker 1: have had so many calls from parents wanting their little

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Speaker 1: girls and little boys to sign up and play soccer. Now, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think it's the interest of you know, soccer is

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Speaker 1: going to skyrocket, so it you know, they might not

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Speaker 1: have gotten through to the final, but they certainly have changed.

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Speaker 3: It's a mighty effort.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I will play for third now against Sweden

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Speaker 1: on Saturday night in Brisbane. This doesn't really work in

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Speaker 1: their favor, but Sweden has played in the third place

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Speaker 1: playoff three times before and they've won all three. They are.

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Speaker 3: Women, sir well soccer, Yeah they are.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully we can change that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know that we went down last night, but

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Speaker 3: that's Sam Kerr gol was absolute top world class. We

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Speaker 3: know how good she is, but there was incredible, was it?

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Speaker 1: It was? Honestly I couldn't believe my eyes. I jumped

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Speaker 1: that high off the count was. It was incredible and

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Speaker 1: I think we hadn't seen her all that much this tournament.

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Speaker 1: Obviously each on the bench with injury for a lot

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Speaker 1: of it. But that's the Sam curve we knew we

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Speaker 1: needed and if we were going to go through this tournament,

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Speaker 1: and it was absolutely incredible, I think she would have

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Speaker 1: the whole country would have erupted in that moment.

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Speaker 2: Finishing top four, as we said, is amazing in the

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Speaker 2: World Cup. What does this mean for the individual players

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Speaker 2: where they find themselves fielding all sorts of interest internationally.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean a lot of them are already with

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Speaker 1: England clubs like Sam Curve.

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Speaker 2: They just really up to their own, you know, sort

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Speaker 2: of deal value.

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Speaker 1: They definitely would have a lot of them, as I said,

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Speaker 1: are part of clubs already, but they also will focus

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Speaker 1: on the Olympics. So that's so that's in twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: four and the qualifiers start later this year, so that's

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Speaker 1: we still have.

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Speaker 2: Hope and anna for women's sport in general. How would

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Speaker 2: you sum up the last few weeks and the legacy

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Speaker 2: of it.

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Speaker 1: I actually was thinking about this the other day. I

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Speaker 1: don't even know if I thought I would ever see

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Speaker 1: anything like this. For women to be able to fill

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Speaker 1: out a stadium with seventy thousand plus people is remarkable

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Speaker 1: and it has just I think it's this World Cup

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Speaker 1: has changed the game and the rest.

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Speaker 3: So many women, so many scarves and shirts around this

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Speaker 3: nation in households. It wouldn't have been there if it

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Speaker 3: wasn't for this team getting so far in Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, And I spoke to someone the other day who

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Speaker 1: was saying they've actually sold more Matilda's merch than soccer

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Speaker 1: Roo's merch so like in history. So it just shows

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Speaker 1: the popularity of this team and I think Kerr has

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Speaker 1: a huge sway in that. But we've also seen the

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Speaker 1: depth of this squad and you know it's not just

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Speaker 1: Sam Kerr. I mean she's although and last night she reminded.

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Speaker 3: Us of that a lot of these girls play in

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Speaker 3: England and I mean the French League as well. So

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Speaker 3: it's yeah, it is a it's a very good side,

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Speaker 3: but they just they were beaten by a better team

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Speaker 3: last night.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, England definitely dominated, had more of the ball and

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Speaker 1: you know, capitalize on their opportunities. But still have to

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Speaker 1: be proud of that performance. Performance.

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Speaker 2: Well, hats off to the Matilda's good luck on Saturday

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Speaker 2: with the bronze. I don't know, but you know what

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Speaker 2: I mean, and we will see you tomorrow morning, tomorrow

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow