I would have thought that neither Kenya (#128) nor Malawi (#153) would be a difficult opponent so giving newer players in the squad more time on the pitch was the reason for choosing to play these teams.
I hope it wasn’t to allow older players to rack up milestone appearances and/or goals.
It seems like Montemurro is hoping that the ‘older players’ will stick around for the World Cup next year and he will tinker around for edges with the rebuilding of the a new squad.
Has Rosich said anything about the ALW building on the successful staging of the Asian Cup.
I note that Football NSW are talking about establishing an infrastructure fund for NSW but I haven’t seen or heard anything from APL regarding the issue of the professionalisation of the ALW.
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There won’t be any dual nationals allowed to represent Australia when Pauline becomes Prime Minister only dinki di’s and preferably white. We will become a mono ethnic country again.
Of course descendants of ten pound poms will be exempt. 😳😲
Having just rewatched the game against North Korea I will give my thoughts.
Our defence was poor at ‘man marking’ although they dealt with Korea’s physicality well, our goalkeeper was ‘shaky’ although I don’t think she had much confidence in the defence. In midfield I thought McMahon and Younis...
I don’t know if it was nervousness that caused so much poor passing but there were far too many turnovers.
Most of the players have played in age tournaments before so it shouldn’t have been a reason.
It’s something that coaching staff will have to work on.
They are a more skilful team with a better technique and are probably fitter all due to their highly intensive training from a young age. They are a physical team and like to disrupt the flow of the game, all of which Australia found difficult to deal with.
I disagree, the development system needs a massive overhaul as Joe Montemurro has pointed out. It’s very ad hoc and coaches get very little time with squads prior to tournaments.