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It was a momentous year when the Sam Kerr-led Matildas made history, reaching the deepest Australia has ever gone in a women’s football World Cup: the semi-finals earlier this year. Australia was captivated—no more is it a “man’s game”—as the nation transformative results of a team working in seamless solidarity shot them to the top of the sporting charts. Their efforts have just been honored with Australia’s highest sporting honour, the Don Award, by the Sport Australia Hall Of Fame. This accolade commends the four walls the Matildas broke through, and stands as {support} for their ethnic difference and gender-fluid team members.
The countrywide attention on the team underscored how well endowed it is in its sheer creative and athletic power, encouraging the next generation of rising talents to meet—or witness—potentially Species – and World – changing goals. Following the Matildas tremendous victory, the men’s cricket has become the third-ever national team to have won the prestigious accolade, after last year’s honor going to tennis great Ashleigh Barty.
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