Be So Good

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Relive the Matilda's dramatic Women's World Cup campaign, and their wider impact on the beautiful game The 2023 Women's World Cup semifinal gripped Australia in a way that few sporting events have achieved. On any level it was transformative, capturing the highest TV audience since records began and ending in the longest penalty shootout in World Cup history. To chronicle the euphoric road to the 2024 Paris Olympics, Fiona Crawford draws on interviews with players, administrators, sponsors and fans ranging from Mackenzie Arnold, Bruce McAvaney, Annika Wells to Annabel Crabb, skilfully unpicking questions of gender, human rights, race and women's sports. Be So Good highlights the astonishing impact of one team's determination to leave the game in a better place.

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Fiona Crawford is one of Australia's most respected women's football writers. She is author of The Matilda Effect and co-author of Never Say Die- The Hundred-Year Overnight Success of Australian Women's Football. An adjunct lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology's Centre for Justice, Crawford has written for the Sydney Morning Herald, Vogue, The Guardian, The Conversation, The Big Issue, the Matildas and the W League, FourFourTwo, and the Homeless World Cup. She appears regularly on radio and television.