Football Australia
- Analysis
- Australian soccer
How an Arsenal Champions League loss could benefit the Matildas
Australian duo Caitlin Foord and Steph Catley will be desperate to progress to the UEFA Champions League final when they face coach Joe Montemurro’s formidable Lyon side later this month.
- Vince Rugari
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- Analysis
- Australian soccer
Why Football Australia made right call in keeping Sam Kerr as captain
As a train-on player only, she won’t wear the captain’s armband on Friday night at Allianz Stadium in the first of two friendlies between the Matildas and South Korea. But she will wear it again.
- Vince Rugari
- Analysis
- Australian soccer
The Barcelona legend, the billionaire politician and the Indonesian plot to usurp the Socceroos
The appointment of Patrick Kluivert as Indonesia’s national team coach is the latest sign that Australia’s northern neighbours are finally getting serious about their national sport.
- Vince Rugari
Matildas, Socceroos greats throw weight behind Brisbane 2032 stadium vision
Soccer greats have joined forces to make a last-minute push for a new stadium at Perry Park, as the 100-day Olympic review reaches its final stages.
- Cameron Atfield
- Opinion
- Sam Kerr
Sam Kerr the victim of white privilege? Give me a break
Just when you think you have seen an athlete do something indefensible, you are told it was all a justified reaction to the patriarchy, to the white establishment and to a system of entrenched injustice.
- Oliver Brown
- Analysis
- Courts
Why the battle has only just begun for Sam Kerr
Having left court on Tuesday in London after being found not guilty, Sam Kerr is about to meet a new set of challenges.
- Jonathan Drennan
- Opinion
- Courts
Kerr’s right, she’s been treated differently – and that puts the Matildas in the dock too
Football Australia has built the women’s game around Sam Kerr. That means her UK trial - however it ends - will have significant implications for the Matildas brand.
- Tracey Holmes
- Exclusive
- Brisbane 2032 Olympics
The Olympics’ biggest spectator sport makes its Brisbane stadium pitch
Queensland is ill-equipped to host Olympic soccer, Football Queensland and Football Australia have warned in their review submission.
- Cameron Atfield
He coaches the best side in Europe. And he’s firming as top choice to lead Matildas
Former Arsenal and Juventus coach Joe Montemurro is now in charge of Olympique Lyonnais, the long-time standard-bearers in women’s soccer. Could he be the man Football Australia is after?
- Vince Rugari
Legal action to deny school change is abuse of privilege
I am really shocked that anyone would bother trying to sue a school for going co-ed. What is wrong with people that they feel they have to protect exclusiveness and the exclusion of girls?
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