Carrying the hopes of a nation on her shoulders, can Australia’s captain withstand the pressure and lead her team to glory?
How to follow the Matildas at the Women’s World Cup
It’s approaching midnight in mid-June 2019, deep in the bowels of the Stade de Nice on the outskirts of the French Riviera city, when Sam Kerr appears. Not unlike her movement on the football pitch, the striker moves with an aura of mystery – one minute she is nowhere to be seen, the next she materialises in front of you.
But in that moment, Kerr would have wished to be anywhere else. The Matildas captain is notoriously media-averse. Fronting up to the travelling Australian press pack minutes after the Matildas had been knocked out of the Women’s World Cup on penalties, with Kerr blazing her spot-kick high and wide, was nothing less than a nightmare.
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