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Updates as Matildas and Korea DPR meet at HBF Park
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Kick-off time in Perth is 6pm local/9pm AEDT
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For the first time this tournament coach Ri has made a change to his starting XI, with 16 Song Chin-sim coming in at left-back in place of Yu-Yong Hwang.
Keep an eye on Choe Il-Son on the bench – the 19-year-old a member of the side that won both the U17 and U20 World Cup for North Korea.
In the first place, I think it’s giving them support as young women, rather than footballers. It’s giving them a safe, comfortable place where they can come. That was the main thing that we tried to do with the Afghan women’s team, we gave them somewhere that they could come together, where they could feel safe, feel like they could play and they could and they could practice. And kind of move things on from there. That’s the number one thing. You treat them like young women, and then maybe football is second and and kind of move on from there.
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