Forward of the Socceroos’ all-important World Cup qualifier towards Lebanon on Thursday night time, Right this moment’s Sarah Abo unleashed a cheeky sledge on Australia’s nationwide males’s soccer workforce.
Interviewing Matilda’ vice-captain Emily van Egmond on Thursday morning, Abo introduced up the boys’s soccer workforce.
“The Socceroos are clearly taking part in tonight, however individuals are kind of asking, the Soccerwhos?” joked Abo, eliciting a delicate snort from van Egmond.
“Look, all the perfect Socceroos. I imply, they’ve received an enormous sport towards Lebanon as properly. So, you recognize, we’re right here to assist them as a lot as we will. And yeah, they’re doing a terrific job,” van Egmond responded.
“I’m joking in fact. We love the Socceroos nearly as a lot as we love the Matildas,” Abo stated.
Nevertheless, Right this moment co-host Karl Stefanovic interjected, including: “I don’t suppose that’s true in any respect.”
Van Egmond’s media look follows the Matildas’ pool B draw for the Olympics alongside the US, Germany, and both Zambia or Morocco, pending outcomes of the African qualifier in April.
The midfielder stated she was excited however cautious concerning the Paris Video games in July.
“The Olympics is an excellent aggressive match,” she stated.
“You noticed how onerous it was for all of the European groups to qualify, with England, Sweden lacking out specifically
“For us, it’s simply specializing in ourselves. We’re clearly used to those sorts of issues. We did properly at in Tokyo, and now in Paris we have now a brand new problem and one which we’ll be excited for.”
Talking concerning the absence of Tillies captain Sam Kerr, who will sit out the Olympics because of a longstanding ACL harm, van Edmond stated the striker was nonetheless “an important” a part of the workforce.
“She’s our chief,” she stated.
“She may not be right here on floor with us, however from afar, she’s positively taking part in a job and one which we’re all tremendous grateful for.”
On Thursday night time, the Socceroos will play Lebanon’s Cedars at Sydney’s CommBank Stadium.
Australia has performed the Center Japanese workforce twice, profitable each video games 3-0.
