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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Edge of Change, presented by Nike, a

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Speaker 1: series of conversations with athletes, innovators and designers who are

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Speaker 1: pushing boundaries, creating ideas, and advancing change for women in sport.

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Speaker 1: Emily van Egmund has football in her blood. Born and

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Speaker 1: raised in Newcastle, she was immediately immersed in the sport.

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Speaker 1: Her father represented Australia and it was clear from an

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Speaker 1: early age that Emily would soon follow in his footsteps.

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Speaker 1: Like most female athletes of her generation, she played with

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Speaker 1: the boys until well into her teenage years, but that

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Speaker 1: all stopped when the Matildas came knocking and she made

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Speaker 1: her debut in twenty ten at just sixteen years old.

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Speaker 1: Football has taken Emily all over the world. While currently

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Speaker 1: applying her trade for the San Diego Wave in the USA,

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Speaker 1: She's had stints with clubs in Australia, Germany, Denmark and

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Speaker 1: the UK, and all that experience will absolutely come in

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Speaker 1: handy in twenty twenty three when the Matildas get to

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Speaker 1: play in front of the nation on home soil. Emily,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Female Athlete Project.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty excited to sit down and have a chat

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Speaker 1: with you today. To kick us off, can you tell

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Speaker 1: us what were you like as a little kid.

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I'd say cute, but I think my

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Speaker 2: parents would beg to differ. Now I was a little kid,

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Speaker 2: I think just growing up in a family. My dad

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Speaker 2: was a professional footballer, so I think naturally sports was

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Speaker 2: probably always going to be through the household. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: I kind of just couldn't really sit still.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, when was it that you first found soccer?

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Speaker 1: Or are we going soccer or football today?

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Speaker 2: Football as football?

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Speaker 1: Sorry sacrilegious to say no.

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Speaker 2: So my story pretty much well, like I said, my

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Speaker 2: dad was professional football. He also played for Australia. But

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Speaker 2: my story is a little bit funny, Like I got

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Speaker 2: a twin brother, and so my dad's dream probably was

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Speaker 2: to have a son who played football. So we went

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Speaker 2: down to the local park and he signed him up

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Speaker 2: to play, and he gave him the uniform and he

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Speaker 2: pretty much said, okay, well this is what you've got

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Speaker 2: to wear. And you saw the long socks and when

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Speaker 2: I'm not wearing those, and me, being the annoying kid

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Speaker 2: I was, was just tugging on his shirt, going, oh,

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Speaker 2: do what, I'll do it? So they just changed the

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Speaker 2: initial from an M to A and E and that's

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Speaker 2: kind of how it all started.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty cool. Why was it? Do you think that

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Speaker 1: your dad wanted your brother to play initially rather than you?

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Speaker 2: Oh look, he's so supportive now, But I think probably

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Speaker 2: you know, you obviously have a son who would probably

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Speaker 2: just assume they wanted to be into sports because he

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Speaker 2: was into sports. But we couldn't be more opposite. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think a little dad's a little dad's girl now

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Speaker 2: because I played his firit sport.

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Speaker 1: When you're about fifteen years already got the chance to

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Speaker 1: start training with the Newcastle How did you get to

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Speaker 2: Poor, It's going back a long time, so pretty much

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Speaker 2: my junior development back in the day was a little

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Speaker 2: bit different. We I grew up in Newcastle, so it

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Speaker 2: an n Swiss program, so there was enn Swiss program,

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Speaker 2: the girls with the boys, which I think looking back

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Speaker 2: grow up in an environment where we had Cheryl Sawsbree,

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Speaker 2: Joey Peters, Katie Gill, Lauren Colethorpe, I could name so

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Speaker 2: back in the day, like the absolute peak of Australian football.

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Speaker 2: And I was young coming through the ranks, and yeah,

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Speaker 1: What was it like training with someone like Cheryl who

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Speaker 1: terms of number of Matilda's caps. To kind of be

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Speaker 2: That, she scared the shit out of me.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: If we can say that. But she was intimidating, but no,

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Speaker 2: to be honest with VI Chez was you know, she

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Speaker 2: and just you know, aspiring to obviously one day play

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Speaker 2: and yeah, it was awesome.

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Speaker 1: You're only sixteen when you debuted for the Matilda's and

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Speaker 1: a friendly, Is that right?

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Speaker 2: Yes? I think so.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember your first cap?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we were in Brisbane and we were playing against

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Speaker 2: I want to say I could be wrong here, but

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Speaker 2: I want to say it's North Korea.

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Speaker 1: I feel like I should have that somewhere in my research,

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Speaker 1: but let's go with that.

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Speaker 2: Allaway at the same time. But I was young, and

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Speaker 2: I mean I just remember being so excited and when

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Speaker 1: Was it something that you'd obviously seen your dad when

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Speaker 1: dreamt of to play for the Materidas from when you

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think when I got to the age of

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Speaker 2: So I remember I wasn't just you know, it wasn't

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Speaker 2: it was a good little pathway growing up.

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Speaker 1: You've been playing now for about thirteen years for the Matildas. Jeez,

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Speaker 1: how has it changed in that time.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's changed so much. We actually just got a

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Speaker 1: So it's worth the longevity. It's worth being around for

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Speaker 2: It obviously wouldn't be what it is today without those girls,

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Speaker 2: the players before us paving the way. But yeah, obviously

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Speaker 2: women's football in Australia and around the world has come

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Speaker 1: Really, So for you, what do you think the importance

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Speaker 1: Newcastle to then have a chance to become a Matilda.

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Speaker 1: What do you think was important in that pathway and

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Speaker 1: the most important thing for the next generation of young kids.

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Speaker 2: I think it's just competition at a young age. I

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Speaker 2: And then for football shit to obviously implement the w

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Speaker 2: only going to hopefully better, you know, the development in

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Speaker 1: A lot of players, we know have to go overseas

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Speaker 2: I love it. You know, last year we had a

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Speaker 2: enough of that environment, I head coach is awesome. We've

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Speaker 2: So we're back then now in pre season and yeah,

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Speaker 2: I just can't wait for the season start.

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Speaker 1: What is the difference like playing over the first playing

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Speaker 2: Yeah, playing abroad I think, you know, for me is

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Speaker 2: obviously to compete for national team spots, but the competition,

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Speaker 2: I think, you know, you're training and playing against some

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Speaker 2: you know you can't really replicate that here at the

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Speaker 2: think ultimately that the best competition right now is definitely

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Speaker 2: it now with the WSL and where that's going. I

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Speaker 2: You know, you can't deny the fact that America is

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Speaker 2: you know, so successful within the national team and it's

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Speaker 2: you know, it's only going to be competitive in the

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Speaker 2: domestically as well.

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Speaker 1: You're recently part of a game against Angel City FC

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Speaker 1: that broke the record. Was it about thirty two thousand

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Speaker 1: in the crowd?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thirty two thousand?

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Speaker 1: What was that game like?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a that was an unreal atmosphere. I mean,

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Speaker 2: obviously they had a lot of traveling fans from LA

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Speaker 2: and it's become a bit of a rivalry, which is

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Speaker 2: what you want. But no, we we have a new

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Speaker 2: think it just shows where the game's going and it's yes,

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Speaker 2: it's pleasing and it's you know, it's fun. It's fun

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Speaker 1: You guys are very well known for your ability to

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Speaker 1: get around in the crowd, particularly post match, signing autographs

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Speaker 1: and taking photos. Is that something in terms of the

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Speaker 1: culture of your team that you've purposely established or is

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Speaker 1: that just something that's happened naturally.

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Speaker 2: To be honest with you, the girl, the girls take

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Speaker 2: a lot of like they love it, and you know,

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Speaker 2: we we love giving back to our fans because you know,

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Speaker 2: they come out and support us, and they've supported us

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Speaker 2: from you know, they dot to now and the least

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Speaker 2: we can do is give back. But I think one

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Speaker 2: thing that's really special about the Matilda's is we're such

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Speaker 2: a unique team or we have so many unique characters,

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Speaker 2: and I think that's why we have such a good

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Speaker 2: relationship with our fans and our supporters, just because of

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Speaker 2: the characters that we have in the team. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: we have a huge amount of respect for everyone who

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Speaker 2: comes out and supports us and puts the green and

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Speaker 2: gold on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, very cool. Matilda's verse who.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to go with Matilda's versus England because I

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Speaker 2: just want the Euros nice, you know. I feel like

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Speaker 2: everyone be expecting the Matilda's versus USA, But I'm going

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Speaker 2: to go with England because I feel like they're really

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Speaker 2: hitting their peak right now.

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Speaker 1: They're on form, aren't they.

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I like it. Yeah, Well, best of what, getting back

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Speaker 1: over to continue your pre season. Thank you so much

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