Matildas’ Winning Spirit, Top Tier Transfers and Club Land Continues

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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.

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I'm your host Alex and we've got the second and final Matilda's game

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against Panama to cover as the international break for the women

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continues. As for the men, well,

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their club seasons continue to roll on across the globe as some

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of the European teams continued their preseason friendlies. There's also plenty

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of transfer news as these European clubs begin to

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buy and sell players in the transfer window. So plenty

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to cover this week. Let's get straight into news headlines.

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Foreign let's

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get straight into the confirmed transfers this week with Fran Karachic

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completing a move from NK Locomotive Zagreb

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to HNK Hajic Split. It's a three year deal

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at one of Croatia's biggest clubs. So that

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is a massive move for Fran as he looks to push his

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case for selection in that 2026 Socceroos

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World cup squad. So we look forward to covering

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Fran's progress in the Croatian top flight.

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Now over to the ladies and Winona Heatley has completed

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a move from FC Nordschland to Roma.

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Again a three year contract and it's a big move for Winnie,

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so well done to her. We look forward to covering her in the Italian

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Women's League D top flight there as well.

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Now to a young lad returning home, Liam Bonatig.

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He is returning to Australia with Melbourne City.

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The young defender was at Celtic but didn't see a whole lot

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of game time and hence the move home. Of course Celtic

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and Melbourne City have a pretty good relationship. A few years ago

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Daniel Arzani moved from Melbourne City to Celtic and

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currently, well last season I should say. Marco Tillio

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did go on loan from Celtic to Melbourne City but has returned

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back to Celtic. But we will cover that one a little bit later. Now let's

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head over to the rumor mill because this story just doesn't go away.

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It's Alex Robertson.

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Portsmouth remain very keen on the midfielder

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so let's see how this one plays out.

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There's a lot of rumblings going on with that move

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but but Alex Robertson, it does look like he will stay in the

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championship. It's just whether it will be with Portsmouth or another club from

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the same division. Now Vestalo in Belgium,

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they are looking to get a 4 million euro transfer fee

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for Jordan, boss. Of course Jordan is currently working his way

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back from injury so that'll be an interesting one to play out.

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Of course he's quite a versatile player playing pretty much Anywhere

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down that left hand side of the field from left back to left wing.

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So we'll keep you posted on the on that one.

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Now one for the future. Antonio Arena.

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He is one that is currently subject

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of not only an international tug of war between Australia and Italy,

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of course he was born here in Australia but has Italian heritage.

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It's also being courted by a number of clubs in Italy and

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it's a pretty good list to be honest. Napoli,

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Roma. Coma. Sorry, Napoli, Roma,

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Como and Milan, that was a bit of a tongue twister.

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Are all vying for his services. Now he,

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it should be noted Antonio is only 16 years of age but

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he's a forward and you know, forwards are pretty,

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you know, sought after for for a lot of clubs and,

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and to have those four clubs chasing you, pretty good stuff for Antonio.

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Let's hope he makes the right decision there. Out of those you'd

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probably want to go to Como. Cess Fabregas does

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like to play young players in his

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side so let's see how that one plays out but

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one to keep an eye out on over the coming weeks. All right now

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other headlines. Speaking of international tug of wars, Nectar Trantis has actually

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in an interview recently saying there is a place for both Greece and Australia in

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his heart. So therefore his international allegiance

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remains undecided. So another wait and see there but

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plenty of options in midfield for the Socceroos

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at the moment and also in defense, both positions

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that Nectar can play in. So let's see how that one plays out.

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Saint Paoli coach Alexander Bless and he has come

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out and said that Jackson Irvine is due to report back for pre season training

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this week so the club will do checks to see how his injury

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recovery is going. Of course he picked up that foot injury late on in

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the previous season so all the best to Jackson. Hopefully that recovery

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is going well because he will be a vital part of the soccers

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coming into a World cup year.

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All right, so that's it for the headlines this week. We'll move over to the

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weekly Wrap in just a second.

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All right, so the Matildas, they played their final game in

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the two game series against Panama last week and

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it was a 32 win for the girls. So well done. It was

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a bit of a helter Skelter game but let's run through a few of the

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things that happened. So Hayley Rasso,

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Holly McNamara and Courtney Nevin were the only players to back up

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from the previous matches. Joe Montemuro made eight changes to his starting

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11 for this one. Now in terms of the goal scorers we saw Michelle

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Heyman get a brace in that one and Charlie Grant got the injury

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time winner there, so very interesting

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there. We also saw Chloe Lincoln make her debut

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between the sticks with that unfortunate injury to Tegan Michael

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unfortunately still haven't heard any any

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news on the severity of that injury so that could

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well hamper her chances of getting a move

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to a new club. Of course she was released by Liverpool at the

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end of the WSL season that just wrapped up only a few weeks ago.

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In terms of the match itself there was a bit of an intensity to the

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Matilda's game at the start of of the 90 minutes but it

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did become a bit of to end affair and I think it was

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reflected in the scoreline. 32 really did show how entertaining it

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was for the neutral. Probably not so much for us

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Matilda's fans but there is no doubt

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that Joe Montemuro would have learned quite a lot from that game and

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the particularly pleasing aspect was the fact that there

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was that will to try and win that game late on. It's a great trait

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for a side to have particularly with tournament football around the corner next year with

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the Asian cup coming up. So that

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is great stuff and that is a wrap for the Matildas and the women's international

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break. They will look to head back to club land in the

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coming weeks and of course we will keep you updated on the

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progress of our Matildas and soon to be Matildas

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as they continue their club careers. All right now for the

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men's let's start in Finland with our man Mitchell glasson.

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He got 12 minutes in ktp's nil all draw with in

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if gninston there. Now to

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the United States of America and it's another week

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and it's another Socceroos derby in the usa. This time it

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was midweek cup action between Nashville and D.C. united where Patrick

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Yazbek faced off against Kai Rolls. There Nashville

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knocked D.C. united out with a 52 victory in this one Yazbek

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got seven minutes off the bench for Nashville. Why? While Ky Rolls played

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the whole game for D.C. united. Now Kyros

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backed it up with another full game for D.C. united and unfortunately the losing

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streak continued as they went down 2:1 to LA Galaxy in

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the league or the MLS as it is known

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as for Patrick Yazbek he also backed up for Nashville in the

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MLS on the weekend. He got 63 minutes as his Nashville

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sides undefeated streak came to an abrupt end at

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the hands of Lionel Messi's Inter Miami 21 and

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that man himself Lionel Messi, he scored both goals for

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Inter Miami in that game. So yeah,

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not a lot Patrick and his teammates could do about that one when you're playing.

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One of the absolute best now.

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Arf P he got 24 minutes for RA Salt Lake in

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their 1 nil win over Houston Dynamo. So well done to Arath.

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He continues to get minutes for his side and he

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is coming along quite nicely in his development.

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From all reports, Brad Smith continues that super

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sub role. He got four minutes this time for FC Cincinnati. Unfortunately they went

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down four two to the Columbus crew there.

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Aiden O', Neill, he got 80 minutes for New York City FC's

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two in New York City FC's two nil lost to

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Charlotte FC. And that is a wrap on the MLS.

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Now let's head to Scotland where the season has

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begun with the Scottish League Cup. And Cameron

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Devlin, he got well, he started and played 77 minutes before

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being placed by fellow Australian Callum Nguyenhoff as their side.

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Hearts 141 over Dunfermline in

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that Scottish League Cup. So good to see our Aussie midfielders getting minutes

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there. Of course Derek McInnes is the new coach at Hearts

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and it looks like they both lads will be part of his plans

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which is good to see. Now ready for a tongue twister folks.

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Hold on to your hats. Apostolos stomatolopoulos, he got

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54 minutes in Motherwell's penalty shootout

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win over Clyde. The game ended two all before going to penalties

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and of course Motherwell came out on top there. So both

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our Aussies sides will continue in the Scottish League cup which

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is great news. All right now let's whiz around Europe

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with some pre season friendlies and

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we were just in Scotland so let's continue with the Scottish theme

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with Hibbs beating rot Vys Essen 3

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2. Lewis Miller started, he played 32 minutes but

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unfortunately picked up a knock and came off there. Of course unlimited substitutes

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during these pre season friendlies, so no need to risk him and he

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came straight off. We'll let you know if it was anything serious.

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It doesn't seem to be just a bit of a precautionary one for him

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there. Now one of our other Aussies in that

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Hib side, Martin Boyle, he came on in the 61st minute and it was a

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decisive substitution as he went on to score the winner.

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It was a volley there. So well done to Hibs.

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And of course Martin Boyle picking up from where he left off last season with

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Hibs now their former Hibs

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teammate Nectar Triantis. Of course We've covered him being wanted

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by Hibbs, but he returned to his parent club.

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Of course. Sunderland, who have just been promoted to the English

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Premier League, they got a 4 nil win over South Shields and

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Nectar got 45 minutes in that game.

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Now let's head to Portugal where we had an Aussie derby.

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Santa Clara. They beat Middlesbrough 1 nil

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and it was Anthony Carter turning out for his new Portuguese

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club, Santa Clara there he got the goal.

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So well done to Anthony there. In terms of our

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Aussies in Middlesbrough, Riley McGree, Tom Glover and Sam Silvera all

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played and each of them got 45 minutes in

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that game. So good to see that the lads got some

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minutes in that preseason hit. Out now to Austria where Noah

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Bottic scored two goals in Austria Wien's six nil win over

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Pandorf. Ouch. That was a big one.

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But good to see Noah hitting the ground running there in

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Austria. Now let's jet back to Scotland and

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Kasuni Yengi and Nicholas Milanovic made their debuts for

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Aberdeen. They both got 45 minutes in a 2 nil win over Cove Rangers

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there. All right, great to see and as we alluded

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to earlier, Marco Tillio, he's returned to Celtic. He got 45 minutes

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in Celtics 32 loss to Estrella. He did

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lay on the assist for Celtics first goal as well.

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So some whispers out

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there saying that he is or Brendan Rogers is assessing

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whether Marco Tillio will fit in with his plan. So we'll keep

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you posted on that one, Marco. It'd be good to if he could stay

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in Europe and make a bit of a move. I think that's what he will

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need in order to try and burst

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his way into that Socceroo squad and get some recognition from

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Tony Popovic there. Now let's head to England where Jalen

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Pearman, Daniel Benny and Keely Adamson all got 45 minutes for

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QPR in their 6 nil win over Castellon there.

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So of course Castellon home to our Mabil but

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he was not part of this matchday squad there.

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All right now another debutante, Ryan Teague.

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He started in KV Mechelen's 52 win over

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Go ahead Eagles there in a bit of a local

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derby between a Belgian side and a Dutch side there.

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Now not too far away over in Germany,

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Casey boss, he played 45 minutes in Mainz's Flight

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4 nil win over Elsenau there in Germany.

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Let's head back to the Netherlands where Cameron Pepinon scored

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in Dahan Haag's absolute route of Lac Vaitiar.

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Sorry for the pronunciation to our Dutch listeners there.

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Now I hope everyone's sitting down because this score line is

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scarcely believable. I've seen rugby league games end in

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lower scores than this. It was 15 nil to den Haag.

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Yeah, yeah. So you can tell the quality of the opposition

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there. Ouch. All right, now let's head to Hungary where

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Daniel Arzani, he made his debut for Feden Kvass

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Shosh. Oh, I've made an absolute hash of that

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pronunciation. Sorry to our Hungarian listeners there. He played

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30 minutes in the 1 nil win over FC Zilln there.

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Now to Casey's brother Jordan Boss, who we made mention at the top

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of the show with the transfer fee that his club Vestalo

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want. Well, it might, might get a little bit,

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a little bit more expensive for clubs wanting his services after

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his performance against lierce in a 21 win because he did score

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in that one. So that's great to see as Jordan works his

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way back from injury in that one. All right, so that is

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it for our weekly wrap. Let's head over to the players of the week shortly.

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All right, players of the week this week and our

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women's player of the week, it goes to Charlie Grant. Well, look, it could

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have been easy. We could have went with Michelle Heyman, of course, with her wonderful

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brace for the matildas in that 32 win over Panama.

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But it's rare to see Charlie get on the score sheet and

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it was only her second goal for the Matildas. You know,

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it's not just the goal for Grant, however, her boundless energy,

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you know, she's a key part of the team. I think with her utility

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value. She can play on the left or the right hand side. She works hard,

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she offers a threat in attack, but also is a sound

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defender. And look, I think she just goes under the

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radar a lot and it's a bit difficult when you've got the likes of Steph

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Cutley and Ellie Carpenter ahead of you in the left and right fullback

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role. So it was good to see Charlie take her opportunity well and

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getting on the score sheet with a vital goal to get that win. So very

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good to see there. As for our men's

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player of the week, well, we finally, finally have some goal

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scorers to choose from. It was incredible this week, but of

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course we had a couple of blokes score in the preseason friendlies,

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but I thought we should go with someone that scored in a competitive game.

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It was John Iredale with his rescue effort for his

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club side, Seoul Eland in the Korean second division. So he played

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the full game but showed his endurance and stamina in that

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one, managing to score the 91st minute equalizer in

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his sides two all draw with Ansan Greeners.

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So that's John's ninth goal of the season. So look,

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he's in a rich vein of form and it will be interesting to see if

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anyone comes knocking for his services. It feels

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like maybe he could step up a level. But let's see what happens

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for John. We'd love to see that and we'd love to see,

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well, a striker that is putting him in the back of the net regularly

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playing in green and gold. So let's see what

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Tony Popovic's thoughts are come September and

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the next international window when he chooses the Socceroo

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squad to play New Zealand. Well, all right, all good things must

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come to an end. And of course that means it is the end of another

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week of the Aussie Football Passport Podcast.

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