Bruce McAvaney On The Women's World Cup

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Music, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Music Interviews

4.7 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Commonwealth Games disappointed it’s not going ahead.
The World Cup has the feeling of the Olympics in 2000
The support for the Matildas is real – the ticket sales show it
The legacy will leave for the next generation of woman – the woman that proceeded this group are still around and the impact they have on our current team
The World cup could make Soccer to explode in this country
They’ll never get a better chance at taking out this world cup with the team they have and the home crowd

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0:00.0	Durand, Durant, Gold, 104.3, Thursday morning, Christian O'Connell's show on goal.
0:05.4	12 hours time. It is to Women's World Cup. It begins this afternoon, kicking off the opening
0:10.0	ceremony in New Zealand, who are co-hosting it with Australia. And then all eyes are on the
0:14.2	Matildas tonight at 7.30. This is exciting. I'm really excited. I'm watching it tonight on the
0:18.9	couch with my daughters. It's a big
0:21.4	moment in sporting history. And it's right here in Australia. The world is going to be watching.
0:26.2	Just in Patsy's news there talking about a record-breaking, 1.4 million tickets have been sold,
0:33.1	which is incredible. On the line right now, he's always the master of Seminis. He's the voice of sport in Australia.
0:39.0	He really is the go.
0:40.6	You can't have sport on TV without this man.
0:43.5	He's on the show right now.
0:44.9	Brutkaveni, good morning.
0:47.5	Christian, good morning to you.
0:49.2	It is an exciting night.
0:50.6	You've summed it up so well.
0:52.8	Now, before we get into the women's soccer this week, it's been a big sporting week here in
0:57.9	Melbourne with Dan Andrews announcing that we're not going to have the Commonwealth Games.
1:03.0	What's your take on that, Bruce?
1:06.1	Look, I was pretty shocked. I didn't see it coming and disappointed.
1:12.6	Surely there could have been a way that we could have hosted these games in Victoria.
1:17.6	I thought the plan was a good one.
1:19.7	The costs obviously were going to be a big problem,
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