The Matilda Effect
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Lobbying, lamingtons and the long road to 88: early Matildas on the trial Women’s World Cup
At the 1986 Fifa Congress in Mexico City, the “mother of Norwegian football” Ellen Wille asked Fifa for a Women’s World Cup. Wille had strategised her speech before heading to Mexico, including the fact that it would best be delivered by a woman. It wasn’t good enough that women’s football wasn’t considered or mentioned in Fifa’s documents, Wille argued when she addressed the room full of more than 100 men: it was, she said, time for women to have their own tournament.
The GuardianThe Matilda Effect: The rise and rise of women’s soccer in Australia
The Australian hosted FIFA Women's World Cup is only six weeks away. With sell out crowds it may be the greatest moment yet in Australian women's sport and at it it’s heart will be home favourites, the Matildas. It’s been a long road to the spotlight of Australian sport for the Matildas. In 1991 the players who attended the first Women’s World Cup had to pay for their own flights and a number had to give up their jobs to take part. Fiona Crawford, author of Never Say Die: The Hundred Year Overnight Success of Australian Women's Football and The Matilda Effect, shared the team’s story with Suzanne Hill.
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