Canberrans star in Young Matildas wins

Chrissy Walters played for the Young Matildas, most of whom are Under 18 against a China Under 20 side about to play at the World Cup.

China are a powerhouse in women's football but Australia won 2-1 on Saturday with a standout performance from Canberran Bronywn Studman, according to Coach Alen Stajic and 2-0 tonight.

Full report below. The team now head to Malaysia next month for the pre-Asia Cup Qualifiers.

Ante Juric will step into coach Sydney FC W-League side when Sydney's Head Coach Alen Stajic is away with the Young Matildas.


Westfield Young Matildas have successfully defeated China U20, 2-0, during the international friendly match in Canberra today.

The Westfield ‘Promising Matildas’ defeated China U20 2-1 on Thursday, while the Westfield Young Matildas also defeated their Chinese counterparts, 2-1, in Canberra on Saturday as well as this afternoon.

In today’s match, Tameka Butt opened the scoring in the 15 minute while Samantha Kerr secured the Young Matildas’ second goal in the 76th minute.

“This is another pleasing result, but possibly the most pleasing aspect is that there is still room for improvement,” said Westfield Young Matildas Coach, Alen Stajcic.

“Our defence held well when under pressure and the effort in both games was fantastic.

“For a lot of players these games were their first internationals.

This experience lays a good foundation, both technically and tactically,” said Stajcic

Many of the Westfield Young Matildas players will be in contention to participate in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U19 Championships to be held in Kuala Lumpur in October/November.

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Match Details

29 September 2008
AIS, Canberra

Australia U20, 2 (Tameka Butt 15’, Samantha Kerr 76’) - China U20, 0
Referee Chris Young

Westfield Young Matildas line-up. Samantha WOOD, Emily VAN EGMOND, Marianna TABAIN, Teresa POLIAS, Tameka BUTT, Angela FIMMANO, Alesha CLIFFORD, Kyah SIMON, Casey DUMONT (gk), Christine WALTERS, Elise KELLOND-KNIGHT.

Substitutes. Sian MCLAREN (gk), Ashleigh SYKES, Nicole SYKES, Samantha KERR, Linda O'NEILL, Sophie HOGBEN, Ella MASTRANTONIO, Karina ROWETH, Samantha SPACKMAN, Jessica SEAMAN, Ruth BLACKBURN, Nikki DIETER (gk), Rachel QUIGLEY.

China U20 starting line-up. Xiaohui CHI, Linglung WANG, Xiaoging RUAN, Dongyang LI, Wei ZLUI, Rui ZHANG, Wenjia XU, Jun MA, Xinzhi WENG, Yasha GU, Jiahui LOU.

Substitutes. Fengyue PANG, Xiulan ZENG, Shukun LIU, Liu LI, Zixiang MA, Shanghon QU, Yue ZHOWG, Peng HAN, Yahui YU.