Sometimes you wanna go where the women's sport is on TV and Australian women's sports fans now have that place in the form of The Ladies League
@LadiesALeague
If the president of FIFA needs to be convinced of the value of women and women's football after the most successful women's world cup to date (that still isn't over) his suitability for the position must be seriously questioned
FIFA has just revealed the 1,500,000th ticket of this
#FIFAWWC
has been sold. This was the sales target number and we're only on day 5 of the tournament.
🚨 Andreu Campos has threatened the Spanish government (who opened proceedings against Rubiales) in defence of Rubiales
He will ask UEFA to suspend the RFEF, which would see 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗨𝗘𝗙𝗔 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀
We're all aware that Klara Buhl crocheted a koala wearing a
#GER
jersey and Lena Oberdorf had it in her jacket at the game last night and the team are posing with it and it's incredibly wholesome and they named him Waru which means fire in the Pintupi and Liritja languages, yes?
Mackenzie Arnold on the brick wall memes and becoming a national hero:
"It's probably the first time I've ever received attention like this but at the same time I just tend to block it out because I know if I play like shit tomorrow it could be a whole different thing"
Football Australia's released a post-Women's World Cup report and research conducted by Neilsen in October 2023 revealed the tournament generated an induced economic impact of $1.32 billion. That's $1,320,000,000 because of women's sports.
Letting a man who sexually assaulted a woman in front of the whole world get to *decide* whether he was resigning or not was the first mistake. Get him out and everyone who supports him out, too.
Wild that in the space of four days we've had US vs. Netherlands, France vs. Brazil, and this Germany vs. Colombia match which have all been knockouts quality but played in the group stage?!
Am I jealous that I do not have any sort of Olympic-level athletic talent bc I want to compete and win gold medals or am I jealous that I do not have any sort of Olympic-level athletic talent bc I want to collect country pins around the village???
Now this is awesome!
@TheMatildas
star Mary Fowler is among nine athletes to get a Barbie doll in their likeness as toy maker Mattel seeks to shine a light on women sports role models ahead of the Paris Olympics.
Just wondering if any man in a high up position in Spanish football understands the concept of motion pictures being recorded bc between Rubiales' gaslighting and Vilda & de la Fuente *now* condemning Rubiales I'm not sure any of them understand that we saw their actions
there's something to be said that the tillies have finished fourth in the two global tournaments of the last three years and it feels absolutely shithouse that we've *only* finished fourth
"You have the power to convince us men" is genuinely one of the shittiest things the literal head of FIFA could possibly say and it's a pretty stellar line up when it comes to shit things FIFA presidents have said.
Gianni Infantino said, to the women in the room: "Pick the right battles. You have the power to change. You have the power to convince us men what we have to do and what we don’t have to do. Just do it. With men, with Fifa, you'll find open doors. Just push the doors."
#fifawwc
The Tillies in the FAWSL chart:
Arsenal - Foord, Catley, Cooney-Cross
Brighton - Rule
Chelsea - Kerr
Everton - Wheeler
Leicester - Nevin, Siemsen
Liverpool - Micah
Man City - Fowler, Kennedy
West Ham - Arnold, Gorry
Spurs - Grant
It’s about damn time! Nike agree to run limited quantities of Mary Earps’ goalkeeper shirt.
It also includes goalkeeper shirts from the USA, France and the Netherlands.
Another lesson in why you don’t underestimate women’s sport.
I want to live in this five seconds forever. I don't even need the vision of the Kerr goal, that's imprinted in my mind forever, I just wanted this soundtrack, on a loop, forever.
Spain learning the internet is forever with that deleted video of them mocking the haka and being downright disrespectful doing the rounds. It's such a poor look from those four players and the media team who gave that video the full treatment and posted it in the 1st place too.
no real point but Sam Kerr's 2011 ACL was covered by Ann and the OG Women's Game and an article on the WAIS website. Sam Kerr's 2024 ACL has led TV and radio news bulletins, flooded social media, and the list of pieces written about it is growing by the hour.
A very casual 160,290 folks through the gates at Australia's first four Women's World Cup games across Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, and Perth. That's football nation behaviour, baby
#FIFAWWC
Absolute scenes in Paris, the Stingers are going for gold!
The Aussie women's water polo team defeated the USA in a penalty shootout and have set up a gold medal match with Spain 🥇
#Olympics
Arisa Trew's checklist:
Gold Medal ✅
Australia's youngest-ever Olympic medallist ✅
Pet duck 🔜
Australia's teenage golden girl has just one thing on her mind following her incredible Olympic win, a pet duck she was promised by her parents.
The 14-year-old took home gold in
The news you have all been waiting for...
🆕 🛒 Our goalkeeper jersey in the iconic purple colourway will go on sale tomorrow at 12.00pm AEDT via our online store!
#Matildas
I do love seeing Wiegman and Bonmati using their speeches to highlight issues surrounding women's football (and society in general) but it's so telling for the women's game that recipients of awards in women's football consistently have to do that.
I'll say it to anyone who will listen: Steph Catley does not get enough credit for what she did leading this team through the first half of that tournament and especially that opening game. Simply Gargantuan.
2️⃣3️⃣ Moments from 2023
𝗠𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 #𝟵: 𝗔 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘄𝗲'𝗹𝗹 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁 ✨
Our first-ever
#FIFAWWC
game on home soil saw 75,784 fans pack into Stadium Australia, with
@stephcatley
reflecting on her match-winning penalty! 💭
#Matildas
Just a friendly reminder that in January this year Clare Hunt had never played for the Matildas and now in December, after the Tillies have played 18 games, she has 16 caps.
The Tillies in the FAWSL chart:
Arsenal - Foord, Catley, Cooney-Cross
Brighton - Rule
Chelsea - Kerr
Everton - Wheeler
Leicester - Nevin, Siemsen
Liverpool - Micah
Man City - Fowler, Kennedy
West Ham - Arnold
Spurs - Grant
My favourite part of this WC has been international outlets being surprised at Aussies turning up and turning out in the middle of the night as if we don't do this every weekend watching European leagues and in the middle of the week watching champos and for every big tournament
America did one world cup in an unfavourable time zone and now have the audacity to say Australians are getting a taste of what they went through???? Baby we cooked the whole damn meal. We got leftovers in the fridge and some extras that we froze for the future. """A taste"""
every time i think we grasp the cultural impact of the tillies world cup run, something else happens and opens it up in a new way and i'm floored. this moment rules so hard
'Matilda' is the Australian National Dictionary Centre's word of the year! 💚💛
And when you think about it... has the word 'Matildas' ever been said in Australia more often than in 2023? 🤩
Australia's PFA shared its support of the FUTPRO statement and many current and former Matildas are sharing their support for Jenni Hermoso on social media
weirdly emotional at an Aussie No. 20 scoring goals and doing backflips not bc I think he's the next Sam Kerr but bc it's cool that we have two players that have gravitas and star power