‘I think it’s really been the turning point for women’s sport in this country.’
and the Matildas becoming national heroes and an inspiration to young girls and boys who want to play football.The Matildas’ pre-game huddle ahead of the match against England.“What I was thinking down there was 23 years ago, a Spaniard, Juan Antonio Samaranch, who was the President of the International Olympic Committee, said ‘Sydney the best Olympic Games ever’,” he said on Channel 7 after Sunday’s final.
“It was groundbreaking. I think some of the milestones that we achieved, like, having 75,000 people in these stadiums, I never would have dreamt that that would have happened. I’ve been at World Cups before. It doesn’t happen. So, for me to see this turn out, it’s phenomenal.” “It’s also given a lot of young women and men that vision that only football can create a stage like we’ve seen.
“The way the fans have got behind us, the way the girls have carried themselves. We’ve proven to the world but also within Australia that we are a footballing nation,” Kerr said following the Matildas loss to Sweden. “I can only speak for the Matildas. We need funding in our development. We need funding in our grassroots. We need funding. We need funding everywhere,” Kerr said after the loss to England.
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