Matilda's Selections, Transfer Tales and Playoff Drama!

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Foreign hello

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and welcome to the Aussie Football Passport, your one stop pod for updates on your

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favorite Aussie men and women who are playing their club careers abroad. I'm your host

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Alex and this week we've got plenty to bring you from the latest Matilda

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squad, the first of new coach Joe Montemuro's tenure,

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transfer news, relegation playoffs and the usual weekly wrap of our Aussies

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abroad. Let's get straight into it.

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Let's start with transfer news this week and there is plenty.

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It is headlined by former Sydney FC man

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Adrian Sega who has joined Portsmouth on a three year deal.

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He will join fellow Aussies Hayden Matthews, Thomas Waddingham

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and Jacob Farrell at the club. Some are now calling Portsmouth Little Australia.

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Well we will be keeping a close eye on them next season

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that is for sure and we look forward to following the

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lads movements at Portsmouth next year in the English Championship.

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Speaking of the English Championship, Jalen Pearman's move from

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Perth Glory to QPR has finally been confirmed over the weekend.

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He will join fellow Auss Aussie and good mate Daniel Benny

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at the club. So we will have a few Aussie derbies in the English

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Second Division that we will very much look forward to and mark

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down in our calendars. Now down to Portugal

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and Anthony Carter who had just won promotion with Alvircha,

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has joined Santa Clara in the Portuguese top flight.

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So great move for him. He had a breakout season scoring

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15 times and providing providing seven assists

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in the second division. So the the striker

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will he be on Popper's radar? We know that there is a bit of lack

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of depth up front, we should say so whether

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Anthony pops on that radar for Popper, stay tuned.

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No doubt Popper will cast the net far and

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wide like he has done up until this point. And of course we've got a

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whole year to plan for next year's World cup which is even more exciting and

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gives players like Anthony a good chance to get a look in.

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Now to some news that is breaking. Matt Ryan,

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it looks like he will depart from RC Lawns so

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a bit of a shame for him. It looked like he'd found a home but

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his contract expires next week and it looks like the club will not re

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sign him. So very unfortunate. The the

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the coach there will will still has joined Southampton as

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I think we reported a couple of weeks ago, so that looks to have had

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a bit of an influence on the decision there. And the sporting director doesn't seem

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bigger fan of Matt Ryan as the coach was, so it's a

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bit of a Shame. And. And Matt Ryan. I'll have to pack his things and

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move on. Any who, let's get on to some transfer whispers

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and let's talk about Alexander Robertson. I mean, is he

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an Australian, is he not? We're not quite sure at this point, but anyway,

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apparently he wants to. Well, he is close to, I should say, a move

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to Portsmouth, which would take their Aussie conditions contingent to five.

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So I guess maybe that.

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That Little Australia thing is turning out to be quite true, isn't it?

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So. Well, also, those four lads might actually be

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able to talk him into playing with the Green and Gold, who knows? So that's

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one to watch out for another Australian who

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is yet to completely commit to the Green and Gold, although that does

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not seem to be the case for recent reports. It's Nectar

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Trantis who has come out, said to

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one of the Edinburgh newspapers that he does want to play for the Socceroos,

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but his current. His current side, Sunland, are in advanced

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negotiations to go for him to go to Hibs

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on a permanent deal. So of course he's had two previous loan spells

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at the club and both have been fairly successful. So no doubt

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Nectar will want to stay at Hibbs.

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He's certainly found a home there. Another Aussie

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that is yet to choose his national allegiance, Christian Volpato.

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He's in the sights of Torino, so they're currently in talks with his side,

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his current club side, Sussuolo, about to transfer. So one

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to watch out for, of course, Torino, a little bit higher up in Seria

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there. Saswallo, of course got promoted, but yes,

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could be an interesting move and of course we'll.

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We'll see if he commits to Australia.

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Now, to a recent socceroo that could be looking to make a

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bit of a Hollywood move, it's Ryan Teague. He's believed to

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be of interest of Wrexham, of course,

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of welcome to Wrexham fame. They are coming down under

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in July and they will play Ryan Teague's current side,

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Melbourne Victory. So that will be a very interesting one. Maybe while

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they're over here they can get the negotiations done and maybe we'll have an

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Aussie on season five of welcome to Wrexham. So make sure you stay

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tuned to find out. All right, Now,

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Chelsea and Leon are in talks over a potential swap deal involving

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Blues fullback Ashley Lawrence and Australian Ellie

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Carpenter. So this is very interesting because there's a few moving pieces

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to this one. The first one, of course, is Joe Montemuto, who was the Lyon

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coach and is now the Matilda's coach of Course he left Leon to

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take up the Matilda's role. Now we

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rewind another year and the previous coach was

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Sonia Bonpastor. She's currently now at Chelsea.

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So Ellie would be very familiar to her and potentially

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one that she would want to bring into the club. So let's

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add a little bit more to this story and it is the fact that

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Early's now wife Danielle Van Den Donk,

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she has just signed for newly promoted London City lionesses

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in their wsl. So of course she was also playing at

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Lyon. So there is a bit of an

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incentive I think for Ellie to jump ship to Chelsea.

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Of course they'll both be based in London then. So yeah, watch this

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space and we'll certainly keep you updated on that one sticking

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in England and in London in particular. And Keely Adamson is

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believed to be on his way to QPR from MacArthur.

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So if he does join he will find two fellow Aussies at the club.

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Of course, as we mentioned not so long ago, Daniel Benny

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and Jalen Pearman, the two Western Australian boys. So that could be

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very interesting. So we of course will keep you updated on

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Keely and whether he does join QPR there in

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the English championship. All right, so as mentioned

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at the top of the show, Joe Montemur has named his first

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Matilda's squad. Now it's a bit of

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an interesting one because it is a 33 player

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squad and there will be some changes between the games

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because it's a four game series. There's two games against Slovenia

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which is first up and then two games against Panama following

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that. So the, the international period goes over the June, July sort

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of window and therefore yes, of course

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players will be coming in and out of the squad due to their club commitments,

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whether they be seasons continuing from mid season breaks or

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preparing for the new season in some European seasons

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cases. So let's have a look at some of the

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headlines from that first squad. So we've got Mackenzie

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Arnold, Sian Fryer and Hayley Grasso returning from injury.

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So that's great news for the three ladies there.

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Of course Ellie Carpenter joins the team after taking

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time off from the last international series against

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Argentina to get married to Danielle. So congratulations to Ellie on that one and

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hopefully she'll have a bit of a spring and a step for this series after

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that. Fantastic news. There's also some familiar faces returning

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to this squad and they are Chloe

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Berryhill or Ni Lagazo as we formerly knew

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her before her marriage last year. Alex Shidiak,

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Emily Gilnick, Jessica Nash and Remy Siemenson.

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So that's some interesting and good selections and

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it looks like Joe is certainly going to put a few of these ladies through

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their paces over this four game international series.

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Alexia Aspotolakis. Apologies to

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any Greek listeners out there for the butchering of that pronunciation.

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She returns to the squad. Of course she has been

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called up before, but she has not won her first cup, so the defender

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did. Or she was part of the games

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against Korea Republic as a train on player. So let's hope

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Alexia gets her first cup there. All right, now this is a

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very big tongue twister, but Jacinta Galabadar Ritchie,

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I think I got it. She returns to the

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squad. It's her first call up since June 2022, so well done,

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Jacinta. Of course she currently plays for Portuguese

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team Sporting Lisbon. So there you go. That's the big news

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from the Matilda's squad selection. Of course there's a few other familiar

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faces in there that we won't get into, but yes, we will keep an

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that one at the end of the month and into July.

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Should be some great games as the girls prepare for the

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Asian cup on home soil next year. All right, we do have some

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soccer news news as well. The Soccers have announced a two match

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series against New Zealand competing for the ANZAC Ashes,

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which can trace their history all the way back to 1922 when

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Australia and New Zealand played their first ever international football games against

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one another. So this series is going

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to be in the September international window. The first game will

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be played in Canberra on Friday, September 5

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and the second game will be played in Auckland on Tuesday, September 9.

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So this will be great preparation for both sides as of course

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they are both qualified for next year's World Cup. How good. And we

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can't wait to see both those sides

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in action. All right, so that is it for the news

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headlines. We will head over to the weekly Wrap shortly.

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All right, so as you know it is weekly wrap

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time and well, there is not quite as much

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content as in previous weeks because the.

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Well, we only have the women's leagues and

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a few select men's leagues to discuss, but we'll get right into

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it. And let's start with our women in

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Sweden. And there was an Australian derby between Linkoping

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and Christian Stud. So let's recap the players involved

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here. Paulie Doran, she got 31 minutes for Linkoping.

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Amy Sayer, she got 89 minutes for Christian Stadt

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and Remy Siemensson got 67 minutes for Christian

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Stud. And it was a 31 win for Christian Stud over Linkoping

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and of course Amy Sayer and Remy Siemenson both selected in that Matilda's squad.

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All right, staying in Sweden, Jada Wyman she got a full game for aik

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in their 41 win over Alginsas there so

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good stuff. And Jada of course also joins that Matilda

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squad. Now it should be noted that the Swedish Women's League

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are about to take a mid season break and will return in early August.

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And hen why we have those international breaks over the June July

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period. So that is good to know for

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everyone out there. All right now let's head over to USA

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and Alana Kennedy she played a full game for Angel

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City in their one nil loss to Kansas City. Courage in her more familiar

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centre back role. Of course she has been playing a fair bit of midfield for

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Angel City this season and of course Alana will

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link up with the Matilda squad from there. Caitlin torpy

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she played 74 minutes for Portland Thorns in a 1 nil win over Chicago

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Stars. Mackenzie Arnold was also in the matchday squad but

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did not get in the field for that one. So good to see Mackenzie Arnold

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back from injury and it'd be interesting to see whether Joe

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gives her some minutes in these upcoming

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international series. Courtney vine well she followed

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up last week's star performance with 65 minutes for her side North Carolina

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Courage in a 21 win over Houston Dutch Dash on the weekend

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and of course the NSWL will also take

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a mid season break and return in early August. All right

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now heading to USA's neighbors in Canada.

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Carly Johnson made it back onto the pitch after that injury

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in the recent Matilda series against Argentina. She got 16 minutes for

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her club side Calgary Wild in a 31 loss to Ottawa

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Rapid FC. All right, so that is it for the women

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this week. Let's head over to the men and let's start in Asia in

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South Korea specifically. And we had Jonathan Aspropatimitis.

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Again apologies to our Greek listeners out there.

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Terrible stuff. I will promise to work on that. He got a full game

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for Pohang Steelers in their one old draw with Daiju there.

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All right now heading not too far away to Japan and Mitchell duke

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he got 26 for Makaido Zelvia in a 21 win over Kashima

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Antlers. Thomas Deng, he got a full game for Yokohama F Marinos in

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their one nil loss to Fudgy Okayama which means they are stone

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cold blast in the J League and in serious trouble. So to

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add to a difficult week for Yokohama, they also had their interim

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coach Paddy Kisnorbo, course of former Melbourne

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City fame, he resigned during the week. So Yokohama,

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it is looking like a difficult season for them. All right,

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so let's head to Europe now. And we have Mitchell Glassen

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playing in finland. He got 74 minutes for his club side

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KTP in their 5 nil lost to Inter Turku. So a

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rough one for Mitchell. All right, now to

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Italy, ever the bastion for fair play and sportsmanship, as we all know.

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And of course last week we left you with a bit of a cliffhanger.

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The Serie B playoff between Salernitana and Sampdoria.

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Of course, Adinhustic plays for Salernitana.

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Where we left you was that Salerni Turner. Salerni Tana,

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sorry, went down to Sampdoria, 2 nil in

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the first leg in Genoa, of course, Sampdoria's home and

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well, here is where the drama begins. So once

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Adam Frustic's side boarded the plane back to Salerno in

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Southern Italy, well, 21 of their traveling

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party, so players and staff got food poisoning

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on that flight back from Genoa. Can you believe it?

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Just something feels a little bit off about that. But anyway,

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no doubt there'll be some investigations. So that game

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was meant to be played on Friday morning Australian time or Thursday night.

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However, Salerni Tana had their request to

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delay the game for an extra two days granted

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by the Italian Football Federation and it

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meant that they got to play this morning Australian

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time or Sunday night local Italian time. But unfortunately there

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were ugly scenes in the stadium with that return

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leg. So it was a bit of an interesting game.

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Salerni Tana went up one nil, but the goal was ruled out

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by VAR for a hand ball. So just

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to rub assault into the womb, Sampdoria went down the other end and scored,

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made it 1 nil, scored again not too long after

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and made it 2 nil. So it was 4 nil on aggregate. So as the

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game progressed, there were multiple times where the game had

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to be stopped by the referee, which eventually resulted in the players being taken

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from the pitch after 65 minutes and riot police called

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in to calm the crowd. Play later resumes

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about 20, 30 minutes later, but unfortunately after 10

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minutes more of play, the game was abandoned due to

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parts of seats being throwing on the stadium and various other items,

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unfortunately. So it means that Adam Khustic's Salernitana

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have been relegated to the Italian third division. So back

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to back relegations for Salernitana in

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what must be a very disappointing moment for that

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club. So what that means for Adam Rustic's future?

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Well, I'd assume that relegation

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would mean that he will move on and no doubt he

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will have plenty of suitors. I should also mention Adin did play the whole

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70 odd minutes of that game as well. I got caught up

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too much in telling the story of that one anyway.

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Okay. All right, so let's round it out with just a

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quick note to say that there are no MLS

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games in the USA currently due to the Club World cup being hosted there

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at the moment. So we thought we'd give a quick shout out to an A

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league referee, Ali Razor Fagani, who is currently representing Australia

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at the tournament. Great to see him doing his thing on the

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world stage. All right, so that is it for for the weekly wrap.

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Let's head over to our players of the week and wrap it all up for

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another week on the Aussie football passport.

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All right, Players of the week. Now you probably noticed

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that there was one Australian lady who we left out on our Swedish

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reports and that was Av Luik, who is our player of the week.

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Not only did she get a full game for BK Hacken in their

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5 nil win over Pattaya in Sweden, but she

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also grabbed an assist. So therefore she is our player of the week.

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Congratulations, Av. And she. Abby. Sorry.

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And she is doing wonderfully well over there, BK Hacken,

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who are tearing it up in the Swedish league now. Men's player of the week.

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Well, unfortunately it goes to no one because

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I tell you what, it was pretty difficult to select anyone that did

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anything remotely exciting.

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Maybe we give it to Adin Rustic for getting out unscathed

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in Salerno. Maybe he didn't get food poisoning.

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He. As far as I'm aware, he didn't get assaulted

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or anything like that. Maybe we give it to him. Yeah,

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let's go with Adan Rustic, player of the week for not getting assaulted

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by the ultras of Solanitana and not

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getting food poisoning as well. That's a low bar.

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All right, lads, pick up your game next week, please.

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Really need, need you. All right, well,

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on that note, that's it for another week of the Aussie football passport.

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I hope you enjoyed this episode and got maybe a laugh

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or laughed at me, whatever, that's fine. Always here for

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entertainment value. Make sure you like, subscribe, follow and rate the show

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and I'll catch you in the next episode. Goodbye for now,

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Sam.