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The Christian O’Connell Show

MINI: The Matildas Effect

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Music, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Music Interviews

4.7823 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Producer Caitlin has been the voice of the team in the lead up and finals run of the Matildas. We chat up to her about what the Matildas have meant for her

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0:00.0

The Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

0:02.7

On this show, the voice of the Matildas has been producer, Caitlin.

0:08.2

How are you feeling this morning?

0:10.1

My heart is still in a bit of pain from last night, I suppose.

0:15.2

Yeah, it was a tough loss, but, and you can see it in the girl's eyes, you know, that meant the

0:22.0

world to them to get to the semi-final even, but for them, their dream is to win the pinnacle,

0:28.4

right, which is the World Cup. And I think you could see the heartbreaking them, and that's why

0:32.5

my heart was breaking a bit. But I think for us, you know, it was so much more than that. And I don't, as much as my

0:41.2

heart's, my heart's breaking, I'm also so proud of them. And they've done so much more for us and the

0:48.2

world. So I think, you know, once they kind of look back after the heartbreak that they've got

0:53.8

and when they wake up this

0:54.7

morning and in a couple of weeks and they look back and they see like what actual impact they had

0:59.1

that you know they'll see it through better eyes I think and so as much as it's breaking right now I'm

1:05.3

also still so proud and um to have experienced that journey to have lived in this history has been awesome.

1:12.6

Oh, that's so well said.

1:14.0

You know what, when they were chancel of players yesterday and even Sam Kerle,

1:17.9

it's absolutely devastated.

1:19.9

Yeah.

1:20.4

Yeah, they were.

1:21.0

They were broken because that's their dream.

1:23.3

They pushed through the barriers their whole life.

1:25.3

Like these girls played soccer in Australia, which is not our number one sport, not even

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