the journey that the matildas have gone through so who better to speak to about thisjourney than kate gillerself, striker, former captain and now you jointly lead up the organisation, professional footballers australia, which advocates for footballers working conditions and pay. tell me, you stopped playing in 2016 at international level. you played, sam kerr came up underneath you. what have you seen in your time as a matilda and the way things are developed? look, the progress has been pretty rapid, especially the last decade but if we look at the matildas context, they have literally gone from sewing their own coat of arms onto their playing kits and asking for their kits to be washed as like a minimum for what they were wanting to expect, to now having parity with the socceroos, so the journey has been long and winding and they know that they stand on the shoulders of giants who have paved the way for them but they also know that they need to keep progressing the game forward to allow for broader opportunity for those that follow in their footsteps. i was struck as well that they had t