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Kerr-less Matildas face daunting task at Paris 2024

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Matildas names squad for Paris 2024

The Matildas, Australia’s national female soccer team, have named their squad for the Paris Olympics at Sydney’s Olympic Park on Tuesday morning.

The 18-woman team will be without injured skipper Sam Kerr, but includes captain Steph Catley, who will be among eight players who will break history by playing at a third Olympics.

The Matildas, without their star striker, are paying $14 with Unibet to win the Olympics football event, while they are priced at $3.20 to win a medal.

Catley, vice-captain Emily Van Egmond, Mackenzie Arnold, Ellie Carpenter, Caitlin Foord, Alanna Kennedy, Clare Polkinghorne and Tameka Yallop will all become three-time Olympians in Paris.

Kyra Cooney-Cross, Mary Fowler, Katrina Gorry, Michelle Heyman, Teagan Micah, and Hayley Raso all return for their second Games, while Clare Hunt, Kaitlyn Torpey, Cortnee Vine and Clare Wheeler have been selected to make their Olympic debut.

Matildas Head coach Tony Gustvsson said it had been a tough process selecting the squad, but believes they have found the vital ingredients for success in Paris.

“This has been an incredibly challenging squad to select with so many quality players competing fiercely for limited spots,” he said.

“It has been a methodical process over the past couple of years to reach to this point, and each of the players selected bring unique and beneficial qualities to our team that will be vital for our Paris 2024 campaign.”

The Matildas enter Paris off the back of Australia’s best-ever finish in Olympic football with fourth in Tokyo.

Drawn in a pool with former gold medallists USA and Germany along with Zambia, the team will open their campaign the day before the Opening ceremony, July 25, against Germany in Marseille.

The 18 athletes selected today is the largest selection announcement so far for the Australian Olympic Team for Paris, with the team now numbering 134 of an expected 460 team size.

Sharn Freier, Charlotte Grant, Courtney Nevin and Lydia Williams have been named as the travelling reserves for the Matilas. The travelling reserves can be selected as a replacement athlete onto the Australian Olympic Team in case of injury or other withdrawal of one of the selected 18 athletes.

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Some Australian online bookmakers have launched markets on the Matildas, although these are still limited, with most countries yet to name their squads for the Paris Olympics, which officially kick off on July 26, with the opening ceremony.

Expect more soccer betting sites to extend the markets on offer as the games draw closer, with an outright winners market expected in the coming days.

While it has been patchy and not always available, Unibet and Sportsbet do have limited markets available on Olympic Football today.

Topics: Matildas, Olympics, Paris Olympics

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