ANALYSIS: Good, bad and ugly — as Australian football turns into 2023, what should its New Year Resolutions be?
The fall-out has been swift: Football Australia have handed out several multi-year or lifetime bans to some of the fans identified, police have pressed charges, and Victory have been slapped with sanctions after failing to control their own members.
With several players, including captain Sam Kerr, playing for some of the biggest and best clubs in the world, it was thought - nay, expected - that Australia would sweep through the competition and hoist the nation's first senior trophy since the Socceroos' 2015 Asian Cup triumph. Four more disappointing results — against Spain, Portugal, and Canada — in the second-half of the year didn't help in that regard, with belief starting to fade even among the Matildas' faithful. However, a run of four consecutive wins in the final two windows of 2022 has given the Australian game something to cling to as it swings into the biggest World Cup year of them all.It's not just the A-League Men that had to grapple with ongoing cultural problems.
On July 20, Australia will play co-host to the biggest women's sports tournament on the planet, and while no Women's World Cup host has won the title since the USA in 1999, a good showing from the Matildas in front of their home fans would do wonders to restore a lot of the faith that 2022 appeared to lose.
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