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Speaker 1: The Christian Connor Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: On the show, the voice of the Matildas has been

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Speaker 2: producer Caitlin.

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Speaker 1: How are you feeling this morning?

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Speaker 3: My heart is still in a bit of pain from

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Speaker 3: last night, I suppose. Yeah, it was a tough loss,

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Speaker 3: but and you can see it in the girl's eyes.

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Speaker 3: You know, that meant the world to them, to get

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Speaker 3: to the semi final even but for them, their dream

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Speaker 3: is to win the pinnacle, right, which is the World Cup.

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Speaker 3: And I think you could see the heart breaking them

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Speaker 3: and that's why my heart was breaking a bit. But

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Speaker 3: I think for us, you know, it was so much

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Speaker 3: more then that. And I don't as much as my

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Speaker 3: heart's my heart's breaking, I'm also so proud of them

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Speaker 3: and they've done so much more for us and the world.

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Speaker 3: So I think, you know, once they kind of look

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Speaker 3: back after the heartbreak that they've gotten, when they wake

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Speaker 3: up this morning and in a couple of weeks and

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Speaker 3: they look back and they see like what actual impact

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Speaker 3: they had, you know, they'll see it through better eyes,

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Speaker 3: I think. And so as much as it's breaking right now,

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Speaker 3: I'm also still so proud and to have experienced that journey,

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Speaker 3: to have lived in this history has been awesome.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's so well said.

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Speaker 2: When there were changel of players yesterday and even Sam

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Speaker 2: Curl it absolutely devastated.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they were. They were broken because that's their dream.

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Speaker 3: They pushed through the barriers their whole life, like these

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Speaker 3: girls played soccer in Australia, which is not our number

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Speaker 3: one sport, not even our second or third. They pushed

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Speaker 3: through and kept prevailing, and then they turned Australia into

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Speaker 3: this country that just loved soccer as much as England does,

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Speaker 3: as much as the like the Euros do. And that's crazy,

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Speaker 3: like that had never happened. I remember playing as a

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Speaker 3: kid and like it was the odd sport to play,

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Speaker 3: like I was the only girl in a boys team,

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Speaker 3: because as if there was going to be enough girls

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Speaker 3: to play soccer in a small town that I was from.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, once they take it all in and they

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Speaker 3: look back and all these girls start playing soccer next

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Speaker 3: year and all these little kids start playing soccer next year,

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Speaker 3: they'll really understand the impact that they've created in this country.

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Speaker 3: And to be honest, around the world, like the world

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Speaker 3: has been watching this World Cup and seen sold out stadiums,

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Speaker 3: They've sold out merch like that is unfathomable. Before this

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Speaker 3: had even started, these girls wouldn't even have thought that

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Speaker 2: You're right, if you just said something, you'll make the semifinals, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that would have gone. There's no way, especially Curb being injured.

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Speaker 3: But if you told them that, they would have had

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Speaker 3: sold out games, sold out merch and the whole country.

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Speaker 3: People that don't even care about soccer. My partner doesn't

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Speaker 3: care about soccer, Patsy doesn't care about soccer. But we

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Speaker 3: all know about it. We're all heartbroken today, we're all

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Speaker 3: sad today. That's incredible. And I think you know, as

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Speaker 3: much as they're breaking right now, that it doesn't matter

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Speaker 3: because because when they look back, this is the bigger picture, right,

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Speaker 3: this is the bigger and more important thing for them.

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Speaker 3: It's it's their dream, but they've changed the dreams for

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Speaker 3: a whole country. And I just I kept thinking about

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Speaker 3: telling me all of these things that I don't think

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Speaker 2: Oh and also, do you know what your tears it's

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Speaker 2: a it is still history making. It was never about

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Speaker 2: whether you're not when you get to the final. And

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Speaker 2: then even if you get to win the World Cup final,

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Speaker 2: it's not about that you will win, you willn't lose.

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Speaker 2: And it also sport doesn't give you, like life, what

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Speaker 2: you know what, all the teams in the tournament, I

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Speaker 2: think everyone, even the other other players in other countries,

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Speaker 2: were saying, do you know Matildas deserve to win the

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Speaker 1: They do? They did.

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Speaker 2: They had so much compassion, so much kindness, and you

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Speaker 1: They felt like they'd let you down.

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Speaker 3: Yeah they did, but they changed that what that tournament

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Speaker 1: Yeah, boys and girls around the country and are so

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Speaker 2: You know in Australia and all over the country. You

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Speaker 2: used to seeing men elevated every weekend doing sporting great things.

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Speaker 2: To see it front page news, other teams, other TV

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Speaker 2: shows having to rearrange what they're doing because the women

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Speaker 2: Night Go desays what it was last night. But the

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Speaker 2: bigger thing is what will actually change now, what.

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Speaker 1: It will do.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they made Australia come alive for four weeks, right,

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Speaker 3: and like as an adult, you know, you remember that

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Speaker 3: feeling at Christmas when you're a kid and it was

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Speaker 3: they've just absolutely nailed it. And I'm still so proud.

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Speaker 3: I've still got my scarf, still has powers, I promise.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, play soccer kids, it's the best sport ever,

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Speaker 3: well said.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Look Christian Connell Show podcast.

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Speaker 2: Jack and I is in the studio, still chatting to Caitlin,

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Speaker 2: who's making so much sense more than Jack and I

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Speaker 2: are about what's actually really happened here and did the

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Speaker 2: Matilda's really lose? I almost wish the girls that Matildas

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Speaker 2: could actually hear what you just said five minutes ago.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you know. And I'm watching the replays

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Speaker 3: back and people have asked me because I've been talking

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Speaker 3: about it so much on my own personal socials. You know,

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Speaker 1: I Smiley wasn't she Oh she was?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, she was been hopeless. But let's not even worry

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Speaker 1: You know, should come from the Barbie movement script android.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but I just I was so proud of them,

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Speaker 3: And I remember just being great at it because my

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Speaker 3: I really did it, no, and I had to just

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm super proud and even though'm a heartaches,

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And also it's not over now. A legacy is something

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Speaker 3: This this will live with us forever. These moments that

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Speaker 3: That's Sam Amazon, that's Sam Kerr, gooh last night. Everyone

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Speaker 2: It should be the only thing they play, not the result.

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Speaker 2: It's like, that's a world class goal right there.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, So yeah, I'm just so proud of those girls,

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Speaker 3: and they've changed my story for all the little girls

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Speaker 3: get a career. They can be a sports star and

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Speaker 3: they have women to look up to, and I'm so

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Speaker 1: Well, so thank you.

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Speaker 3: So it's not really a loss, is it, Not at all,

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Speaker 3: not at all, and we've still you know, we're still

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Speaker 3: going to get third place, so it's all good.

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Speaker 1: Well. Christian Connell's Show podcast