Matilda's want an A-League

Matilda's Star Sally Shipard has moved to Brisbane! She's back in training and back into Camp with the Matilda's this week.

The Matilda's want an A-League, they are looking forward to playing the USA and Canada and of course 2008 is Asian Cup time.

Sally Shipard writes.....

Well the year has begun and I have relocated to Brisbane. On the 1st of January my folks and I left the Nation’s Capital bound for Australia’s Sunshine State. I’m such a fan of hot weather, I will be able to attend university and the football is great-these factors all played a role in my decision to move up.

I’m living with a couple of other footballing buddies so it should be a lot of fun, hard work too though

Ok, so enough about me...this year for the Matildas...obviously not qualifying for the Olympics means the back-end of our year will be reasonably dull. Unless a national league gets up and running (fingers crossed). The first 6 months of this year we will be travelling to Canberra for AIS camps, supposedly we are lining up some internationals against America and Canada.

I’m not really sure where the games will be, hopefully in Australia to keep the ball rolling amongst the Aussie public.
We also have our AFC Championships which will be overseas in Asia mid-year; preparation for this tournament has commenced already with pre-season training at our National Training Centres (QAS,NSWIS etc).

We also have a camp this week at the AIS which will conclude on Sunday the 13th of January. It will be the first camp after the Christmas break. We will be kept very busy with training twice a day, nutrition lectures and immunisations.

It’s a good opportunity for the coaching staff to get an idea as to ‘where’ we all are. Over the Christmas break we were expected to be keeping active, so it should be interesting. I’m sure all the girls are in good shape

It’s going to be great to catch up; from most of the girls I have spoken to they are all looking forward to a busy year. A national league is on everyone’s mind!!!! It would not only be great for Women’s Football, I believe it would be a great boost for Australian Football. Let’s see what happens, exciting times...

bye

Sal