MELBOURNE : Sam Kerr was a spellbound seven-year-old when she watched Indigenous Australian Cathy Freeman inspire a nation with an electrifying run for the 400m gold at the Sydney Olympics.Twenty-three years on, the captain of Australia's Matildas hopes to conjure another iconic sporting moment for home f
MELBOURNE : Sam Kerr was a spellbound seven-year-old when she watched Indigenous Australian Cathy Freeman inspire a nation with an electrifying run for the 400m gold at the Sydney Olympics.
The stage could not be better set for Kerr and her team mates, who may be the best Australian squad assembled at a World Cup. With no big-name players, Graham Arnold's Socceroos relied on grit and team spirit in Qatar but the Matildas have global superstar Kerr and an army of green-and-gold fans in their corner for the World Cup co-hosted with New Zealand.
Some 3,000 people packed Fed Square in Melbourne's CBD on Tuesday to greet Kerr and her team mates ahead of the Matildas' final World Cup warmup against France at Docklands stadium."We're going to need you for this World Cup. So pack the stadiums, wear your yellow, green and gold, and we'll do everything we can to make you guys proud," Kerr told the cheering Fed Square crowd.
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