MELBOURNE : Mary Fowler's thrill at being picked for Australia's 2019 World Cup squad as a 16-year-old prodigy soon gave way to disappointment when she was unable to get on the pitch and the Matildas crashed out of the last 16.The Manchester City attacker now hopes to make up for lost time when Australia
MELBOURNE : Mary Fowler's thrill at being picked for Australia's 2019 World Cup squad as a 16-year-old prodigy soon gave way to disappointment when she was unable to get on the pitch and the Matildas crashed out of the last 16.
"I'm really excited. Getting to be part of it last time, I just saw how big it was," she told reporters in Melbourne of 2019."Going into it now, I feel so much more mature as a player and confident in what I bring to this team. I'm hopefully going to get some minutes and be able to ." Technically the team's best"two-footed" player, Fowler was hailed by former Australia coach Alen Stajcic as one of the most gifted youngsters he had ever seen after her 2018 debut.
With mixed heritage from her Irish father and Papua New Guinean mother, three nations had potential claims to Fowler's soccer talents.
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