A side benefit of my trip to the Matildas game in Adelaide was to finally meet Matilda #158, Grace Gill, who confirmed my long held suspicion that her GrassRoots club is the same as Socceroo Andrew Bernal, Belsouth, from Canberra's north-western suburbs.
Grace made her one and only appearance for the Matildas in 2007 in a match away against Hong Kong in what was a brand new team containing the likes of Elysse Perry, Kyah Simon & Elise Kellond-Knight amongst others. The game was an Olympic qualifier and won convincingly 8-1.
Grace started at Hawker playing fields at the age of 8 and fondly remembers the Hodgkiss family as huge contributors the the club both then & now and on whom the foundations of our game are built.
Grace made her one and only appearance for the Matildas in 2007 in a match away against Hong Kong in what was a brand new team containing the likes of Elysse Perry, Kyah Simon & Elise Kellond-Knight amongst others. The game was an Olympic qualifier and won convincingly 8-1.
Grace started at Hawker playing fields at the age of 8 and fondly remembers the Hodgkiss family as huge contributors the the club both then & now and on whom the foundations of our game are built.
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