Speaker 1: Good morning to Protuca Kainan, who last night was at
Speaker 1: the Matilda's ten nil absolute Shalakin of poor Yuzbekistan. Just
Speaker 1: hearing the players go yeah, I said to Tony, don't
Speaker 1: take me off un so I've got.
Speaker 2: At least five very gracious in defeat there.
Speaker 1: One the headlines I saw was Matilda's massacre as Becca stars.
Speaker 2: Has a little bit aggredible. I really just got the
Speaker 2: women's game there.
Speaker 1: It's been a big deal for Rezbecka Stan to actually
Speaker 1: allow women to play soccer like that. But it must
Speaker 1: have been an amazing scenes. So my daughter Ruby was
Speaker 1: there last night, so it was like the Taylor Swift gig.
Speaker 1: I was like, come on, what was it that boot
Speaker 1: Maka Come in and tell us what it was like,
Speaker 1: Come in, come in.
Speaker 2: I know she went to Rebel Sport yesterday at the
Speaker 2: lined up to get a.
Speaker 3: Top I did. I did.
Speaker 1: Good morning to Caita and you were you were amazing
Speaker 1: last year when we all sort of followed the Matilda's
Speaker 1: It's an incredible run yesterday. What was it like to
Speaker 1: see them here in Melbourne last night?
Speaker 3: It was amazing. So I was lucky enough to go
Speaker 3: and see them at the World Cup, and that was
Speaker 3: like nothing I've ever experienced before. The screaming was insane,
Speaker 3: and night really felt like a real celebration of just like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, we get to see our heroes again.
Speaker 3: That's what it felt like. It was like in the
Speaker 3: lap of honor really because in the first minute they've
Speaker 3: got a goal and then the game's over within ten
Speaker 3: It was like within the first thirty seconds and everyone
Speaker 3: was like, we got yeah, we got minute.
Speaker 2: It was like three goals, Yes, there was.
Speaker 3: It was very It was like five minutes and we
Speaker 3: had three goals. And one of the girls was the
Speaker 3: girl one she hadn't played the World Cup. Her name
Speaker 3: was Michelle Hayman.
Speaker 2: And she hat four or five goals.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she got four goals. Yeah. It was incredible. But
Speaker 3: the thing that I really noticed and I loved was
Speaker 3: every time, you know, one of the big players that
Speaker 3: was famous for the World Cup kind of went to
Speaker 3: the corner to take a kick call was warming up,
Speaker 3: the crowd would just scream, just scream like they were
Speaker 3: Sam Kirk, It was amazing last night. Yeah, there was
Speaker 3: fifty five thousand. It was insane, like it was just
Speaker 3: a Wednesday night, Like really young girls walking around and
Speaker 3: just wearing the jerseys and it was just incredible and
Speaker 3: I got myself a jerseys.
Speaker 1: Yeah but righty, So what incredible story that Matilda's success is?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is.
Speaker 3: And I kept saying to my partner that I went with.
Speaker 3: I was just like, isn't this incredible that we're sitting
Speaker 3: here looking at these girls thinking they're our heroes and actually,
Speaker 3: like even me, I looked at them and was like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, I'd love to be one of them.
Speaker 3: Like it was just an.
Speaker 1: Incredible, really inspirational But what's happened with the Matilda is
Speaker 1: an incourse still happening and now off to the Olympics
Speaker 1: as well. But to get fifty five thousand there last
Speaker 1: night in the middle of the week is extraordinary.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I heard some girls behind me at some point
Speaker 3: go oh, I'm going to say up all night. I
Speaker 3: don't care how late it is when they're playing over
Speaker 3: in Paris. I'm just going to go and watch it.
Speaker 1: Gik, isn't it It is? Like I understand why Ruby
Speaker 1: said it was. She said the atmosphere is like the
Speaker 1: Telliswift thing. Yeah, people are just really really excited and
Speaker 1: just happy to be here.
Speaker 3: Well, I had a comparison because I went to the
Speaker 3: first friendly against France before the World Cup, right and
Speaker 3: I was in the crowd at Marvel Stadium for that,
Speaker 3: and it was a very different crowd so it was
Speaker 3: a lot more quieter. There was as much excitement. It
Speaker 3: was just kind of like, Oh, this thing's going on,
Speaker 3: let's go and watch them. And there wasn't like the
Speaker 3: screaming like oh fangirls or anything like that, compared to
Speaker 3: last night, which was screaming at any moment. There was
Speaker 3: drums constantly going. It was just Australia really taking on
Speaker 3: soccer and football and being excited about it and creating
Speaker 3: the atmosphere that they have over in Europe.
Speaker 2: They are the biggest team in Australia right now. Well,
Speaker 2: they gave us the best sporting experience of last year.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean for me it was, as a girl,
Speaker 3: the best sporting experience ever in my history of watching.
Speaker 3: Like Kathy Freeman came close to it, but I think
Speaker 3: I was a bit too young. Now as an adult,
Speaker 3: I can really appreciate what exactly these girls are doing
Speaker 3: and continue to do, and to sell out fifty five
Speaker 3: thousand on a Wednesday minin for again that we knew
Speaker 3: that they were going to win.
Speaker 1: You were, they're already going through they already qualified that
Speaker 1: the weekend.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, so yeah, we were confident. But it was
Speaker 3: just about getting to see that.
Speaker 1: So I know it's but everyone saw a great there
Speaker 1: were loads of goals. As a soccer fan, sometimes you
Speaker 1: can go and see a great game. It's hard to
Speaker 1: explain to footy fans Neil Neil can sometimes be a
Speaker 1: great game, but.
Speaker 2: You want to see goals. At least you saw lots
Speaker 2: of goals.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: It was constant, like we were constantly and it was
Speaker 3: boiling so everyone.
Speaker 2: Because yes, it was so hot yesterday evening you.
Speaker 3: Were standing like you were kind of pulling yourself off
Speaker 3: the chair and just being like.
Speaker 2: Then you sit down and then up again.
Speaker 1: Tell us about Rio said, you went to Rebel Sports
Speaker 1: yesterday to get the shirts.
Speaker 2: They're all selling out, people queuing to get them.
Speaker 3: I've been trying to get one since the World Cup.
Speaker 3: I haven't been able to You're kidding, No, there was
Speaker 3: none available. I went into Rebel yesterday just in hope
Speaker 3: that there was even something because I couldn't wear my beanie.
Speaker 3: I couldn't wear my scouts too freaking hot. So went
Speaker 3: in there and there was one small sitting on the
Speaker 3: side of thing. I said, is this have you got
Speaker 3: any more? And he's like yeah, but we've had to
Speaker 3: put them behind the counter because they just were going
Speaker 3: and going and going and they were just such a
Speaker 3: hot topic. They had people that morning before they'd even
Speaker 3: open lining up outside.
Speaker 2: Incredible, it's a brilliant story, yeap.
Speaker 3: And only one goalkeeper jersey was left a small and
Speaker 3: that was it. That's all they had left from the
Speaker 3: whole day.
Speaker 2: But what did you actually get hold of? What did
Speaker 2: you find that? Your size?
Speaker 3: So I was the last one to get the medium
Speaker 3: at was what was the name of rebel? Rebel? Yeah,
Speaker 3: so Victoria Gardens. There was only one more medium left
Speaker 3: and it was the perfect size, So yeah, it was.
Speaker 3: It was really really nice to finally put on the
Speaker 3: jersey and be able to support the girls in that way.
Speaker 3: And you know, they're like, you know, it's not cheap.
Speaker 3: It's one hundred and forty five dollars or something, but
Speaker 3: now I really want to just do be your part designer.
Speaker 2: Basebook gaps to cheap.
Speaker 3: Oh you should have heard the crowd when they you know,
Speaker 3: were introducing the team at the start of the game,
Speaker 3: and they were like Tony Goo Stazen and everyone was like,
Speaker 3: like it was it was.
Speaker 1: Okay overseas, but he has the most austraining coach name.
Speaker 1: You've got a guy called Tony, a hoodie and a
Speaker 1: baseball cap. Even the heat he started with a judio
Speaker 1: so of being interviewed and it was like, mate, undo
Speaker 1: that you're going to struggle for this game.
Speaker 2: It's so hot right now. Lose the hoodie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Patsy, clip any of this and put it in
Speaker 1: the news today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm leading with it.
Speaker 1: You obviously didn't know I meant some of Caitlyn's Oh,
Speaker 1: Caitlyn's reaction.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, it's pure gold. I love it.
Speaker 3: I love your point to about with young girls, like
Speaker 3: having a twelve year old daughter.
Speaker 2: We were watching and it's so true. It's absolutely inspirational.
Speaker 2: It's like a new generation for girls.
Speaker 3: I think it's brilliant.