Matildas Announce Historic Townsville Game As World Cup Countdown Hits Milestone
The Matildas will take to Townsville without precedent for their set of experiences when they face New Zealand in April, it was reported today. 메이저사이트
It will likewise check whenever a tip top football first match has been held at Queensland Country Bank Stadium since it opened in 2020, with the setting having effectively facilitated State of Origin and Rugby Championship matches.
The match, on Friday April 8, is the first of a two-game series against New Zealand's Football Ferns.
The subsequent match will occur at Canberra's GIO Stadium on Tuesday, 12 April, denoting whenever the Matildas first have played in the capital beginning around 2013.
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Australia and New Zealand will co-have the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2023, which starts precisely 498 days from Wednesday's declaration.
The different sides have partaken in a brilliant competition throughout the long term, most as of late gathering in the initial gathering stage match of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
The Matildas guaranteed a 2-1 triumph as whiz commander Sam Kerr helped Tameka Yallop for the opener prior to scoring herself. Australia proceeded to guarantee a best-ever Olympics consequence of fourth spot, going down in a bronze-award heartbreaker to the heavyweight USA group.
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Lead trainer Tony Gustavsson said as of late: "With just the FIFA Women's World Cup Australia and New Zealand 2023™ not too far off, the total concentration for the following a year will assemble a crew to contend on home soil.
"That arrangement begins with these matches against our kindred co-has New Zealand, and we realize they will give a test that will assist us with diving deeper into the playing bunch."
Football Australia CEO, James Johnson, said in an explanation: "Football Australia is happy to bring Australia's cherished wearing group, the Commonwealth Bank Matildas, to Townsville in what the future held of firsts for the group, the city and the locale.
"With just shy of 500 days to go, it's our vision to give the football local area and whatever number Australians as could reasonably be expected with the chance to watch the Commonwealth Bank Matildas on home soil while we keep on working towards the FIFA Women's World Cup Australia and New Zealand 2023."