A record-breaking Olympics has shown Australia what will be on its doorstep in less than two years.
Following on from Tokyo 2020 and the Matildas’ fourth-place finish, Football Australia’s Head of Women’s Football and Women’s World Cup: Legacy and Inclusion, Sarah Walsh, spoke to ABC.
Off the pitch, more Aussies than ever tuned in to watch the women’s national team with the record being broken more than once during the course of the tournament. For Walsh, the average of 1.87 million (peak of 2.32 million) people watching the Sweden semi-final wasn’t unexpected.
“I think we’re not surprised. But it really just reaffirms the Matildas, it was a couple years ago now that they were touted through research as Australia’s most loved sporting team and it really just reaffirmed that.”
