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Updates as Matildas host football tournament opener in Perth
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Kick-off time is 5pm local/8pm AEDT
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Any thoughts? Email Joey Lynch
Questions about the Women’s Asian Cup or how it works? Jo Khan may just have you covered with her explainer.
The Women’s Asian Cup is a sequel with a difference. Not bigger, and surely not better than the magnificent 2023 World Cup, when the Matildas entranced Australia during their run to the semi-finals.
But there is enough intrigue in the script – coaching frenemies, unlikely injury comebacks, last hurrahs, footballing minnows and mirrors of multicultural Australia, even fairytale romance – that it will hold the nation’s football community riveted. Whether the continental championship bursts out into a broader cultural phenomenon, however, will be one of the compelling questions of the next three weeks.
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