The Matilda Effect: how our female footballers have taken centre

They were the first Australian sports team to ever visit North Korea, they were also the first side to pose nude for a calendar and they're the first Australian team – male or female – to reach the quarter finals of a FIFA World Cup, not once but three times.  This team is the Matildas. Their journey to global success hasn't been easy. Like women's football around the world, male football associations denied their existence for decades. 

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