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women’s football history

68. ON HER MIND – RECOGNISING THE FIRST MATILDAS

In 1975 Australia was represented at football’s Asia Cup by a pioneering and enterprising group of women. These women have never been recognised with caps and this team is not considered a ‘Matildas’ team. Nearly 50 years later this group is fighting to be recognised, and Sam Squiers and Selina Steele take up the cause and explain their case.

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