Ellyse Perry, last Australian to score a goal in a football World Cup quarterfinal lauds Matildas’ phenomenal performance | Football News
Believe it or nor all-rounder Ellyse Perry is the last Australian to score a goal in a football World Cup quarterfinal in Matildas’ 1-3 defeat against Sweden in 2011 FIFA World Cup.
The Australia women’s cricket team all-rounder is delighted the how her former team-mates take the football world – and the Australian sporting public – storm.
“I don’t think we’ve ever really seen anything like this,” Perry said on Thursday.
“The level that they’re playing at, the style that they’re playing, the amazing entertainment that they are.
“Just to see what those girls have done for not only their team but for this sport and for women’s sport – it’s just been a phenomenal tournament.”
The 32-year-old, Ellyse Perry would make it among the top sportspersons in the world just on the basis of her cricketing accolades is only player ever to play in both ICC and FIFA World Cups.
Perry made her international debut in football at 16 – playing her first match for Australia against Hong Kong in 2007. earned 18 caps and scored three goals for Australia between 2007 and 2012.
In the 2011 World Cup quarterfinal against Sweden, Perry has scored team’s only goal in the 1-3 defeat but it was one for the ages. Receiving the ball just outside the box on the right side. Perry sent a side-foot dipper over the goalkeeper into the net.
Perry, who played as a defender has enjoyed a brilliant career in domestic football playing for Central Coast Mariners, Canberra United and Sydney FC with teammates Sam Kerr and Caitlin Foord.
She later sacrificed her career in football trajectory for the bat-and-ball game with her cricketing career exploding into superstardom from 2014.
Perry went on to win eight world titles with Australia, 11 Women’s National Cricket League championships with NSW, and two Women’s Big Bash League titles with the Sydney Sixers.
The all-rounder is currently recovering from a knee injury sustained last month in Ireland.
