Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: Yesterday we were saying it's miracle Monday. It wasn't a miracle.
Speaker 2: It was marvelous Monday World. Uncle Matilda's what a huge
Speaker 2: dominating win four nil.
Speaker 3: We absolutely dominated. I was so proud to be here
Speaker 3: in Australian last night.
Speaker 2: It was a great game to watch and I can't
Speaker 2: imagine how nerve racking it must have been since Thursday
Speaker 2: night when they lost, right and you've got four days
Speaker 2: of national scrutiny. Is Sam Kirk going to play? Are
Speaker 2: they going to cope with the pressure? Canada are ranked
Speaker 2: higher than you? How do you hold your nerve in that,
Speaker 2: not just not just survive last night, but actually come
Speaker 2: out playing your best You played in the whole tournament
Speaker 2: so far right here in Melbourne at Amy Park, when
Speaker 2: you know if you don't win, you're out.
Speaker 3: And you see the day before you see New Zealand
Speaker 3: who's the other host nation going out? So there's even
Speaker 3: more pressure on Australia to at least go through to
Speaker 3: the next round. But we played I thought it was
Speaker 3: a completely different team to what we saw in the
Speaker 3: first two games.
Speaker 2: There was something just joyous. My ninete year old daughter
Speaker 2: Ruby was down at fed Square and I kept getting
Speaker 2: all the sort of crowdy action she was filming about
Speaker 2: all the goals and the penalty. She said, there's also
Speaker 2: a lot of booing with those cheene knooks trying to
Speaker 2: get to free kicks out throughout the game. But she
Speaker 2: said there were thousands of people down there. She said,
Speaker 2: it's an amazing atmosphere. How amazing for the materials now
Speaker 2: and now they can go through. So you've got a
Speaker 2: whole week now until hopefully Denmartin it's Monday night in Sydney,
Speaker 2: got a week to recover. Hopefully sam Ka will be
Speaker 2: playing where they really really need her. But even without
Speaker 2: sam Ka, Yes, so that whole team and old Tony
Speaker 2: the coach getting his yellow card, were coming out with
Speaker 2: a little tactical area.
Speaker 3: Do you think as we get closer to the final
Speaker 3: he'll dress up a bit more or yeah.
Speaker 2: I've got to say, I know in Melbourne we like
Speaker 2: to keep it cold. I mean, I'm wearing a hoodie here,
Speaker 2: a black hoodie, which is the official aware of a
Speaker 2: man our age Tony in Melbourne. But he looked like
Speaker 2: he was an uber driver and had a quick pickup.
Speaker 3: He looks like he just woke up. They're like games to.
Speaker 2: Soccer. Managers are in suits, you know, look at Pep
Speaker 2: Gualdola or stuff like that. In the EPR, they're in
Speaker 2: the Armani suits.
Speaker 3: He had a hoodie and the cat pulled down over
Speaker 3: his face. Looks like he's tried not.
Speaker 1: To be now.
Speaker 2: Yes, still on the show. Our producer Caitlin was so
Speaker 2: excited about last night. She had Matilda scarf on. It
Speaker 2: must have been amazing watching that and seeing real history.
Speaker 2: And it's the great thing is it's from page news today.
Speaker 2: This is history front page news, and the news about
Speaker 2: Buddy gets a slightly smaller thing on the front page.
Speaker 2: It's history changing. This is amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was huge, Like I think growing up and
Speaker 1: I grew up playing with Raso Haile.
Speaker 2: No mention, here's the bad wagon. I could have gone
Speaker 2: all the way for my knee.
Speaker 1: But to watch them just absolutely dominate under the pressure
Speaker 1: that they had, and to see all the little girls
Speaker 1: in the crowd, and to be a girl that grew
Speaker 1: up playing sport and never really had that to see
Speaker 1: I think for Australians and the girls at watching Matila
Speaker 1: last night, Like that just meant so much more than
Speaker 1: just that win. And so that was just awesome and
Speaker 1: I'm just so proud.
Speaker 2: It's incredible. It was just so amazing to see. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I thought I loved the whole game. It was so
Speaker 2: exciting and they were so brilliant as well. They can
Speaker 2: now go into the next tournament. It's all knockout games now,
Speaker 2: but as serious contenders, they deserve to be at the
Speaker 2: World Cup.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that are incredible and I have high, high hopes
Speaker 1: of my scuff, so I will be wearing that next Monday.
Speaker 3: Also, And you were.
Speaker 2: Saying to Jack and I, as much as we're sort
Speaker 2: of I've been watching all games really behind it, it's
Speaker 2: not quite the same for guys watching this, right, It
Speaker 2: is a different experience, you know. You were saying, it's
Speaker 2: a different thing the where you're seeing it from, like
Speaker 2: people like Jack and Iron Men.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you growing up, it's like a lived experience, right,
Speaker 1: So growing up you wouldn't have noticed that you didn't.
Speaker 1: You had all these men that you would watch and
Speaker 1: aspire to and could be one day.
Speaker 2: Right, you could easily play soccer as a guy. And
Speaker 2: as much as.
Speaker 1: You understand that women should could you know, have equality
Speaker 1: and do these things and see these girls and they
Speaker 1: deserve what they get. No one experiences it unless you
Speaker 1: are a female and you haven't had that and you
Speaker 1: notice the difference. And so that's why just last night,
Speaker 1: you know, I was really emotional because I just thought, Wow,
Speaker 1: this is incredible. All these little girls can actually see
Speaker 1: people like these women doing incredible things, doing great things,
Speaker 1: and they can see themselves doing that one day, and
Speaker 1: that's an option. Yeah.
Speaker 2: When I spoke to my daughter yesterday when she was
Speaker 2: getting on the tram from fred Square, she was in tears.
Speaker 2: She was saying, so she said, this is the most
Speaker 2: amazing experience of my life, just being there with everyone
Speaker 2: watching history, watching these girls do something on a world stage,
Speaker 2: magnificent and it being front page news. She said, he
Speaker 2: really felt like she was seeing a big shift in history.
Speaker 3: And just think of the amount of pressure that was
Speaker 3: on them last night, my god, and they didn't even
Speaker 3: meet the pressure. They exceeded the expectations of Australians.
Speaker 2: Yeah, amazing.
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