Emerging Sports Writer Alumni Sienna Nobile reflects on the growth of women’s football coverage in the lead up to the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup. I sat in my Nonna’s Lexus in her driveway, the breaks on, windows down. As the passenger, I was in charge of the music. It was something Italian—something we could …
Emerging Sports Writer Lauren McIntosh speaks with football trailblazer Helen Tyrikos about opportunities the sport has leading up to the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Growing up Helen Tyrikos lived in a household where the round ball was religion. Now the Head of Women’s Football of the National Premier League (NPL) club, Heidelberg United, her …
Emerging Sports Writer Program participant Sienna Nobile on the challenges faced by women and girls playing football in regional Australia and why investment is so important. As a six-year-old girl growing up in South Gippsland, watching my Papa coach his U/16s girls football team was a treat. The smell of the damp grass gave me …
With the 2023 Women’s World Cup on the horizon and on home soil, Marissa Lordanic explores the challenges facing the W-League on the road to professionalisation.