Former Byron Bay and FFNC goalkeeper Rachel Cooper has gained selection in the Australian Women’s Football team overnight making her debut for the Matilda’s against Hong Kong.

For Cooper the outing was a relatively easy one as the Matilda’s put the home side to the sword in an 8 - 1 thrashing, but the thought of conceding a goal will way heavily on the young starlet.

This fixture was the penultimate match in the Matilda’s 2008 Olympic qualifying campaign, and the side was an extremely experimental one with the team primarily consisting of the “young matilda’s” squad. This action was taken as the senior team has essentially underperformed - missing out on qualification after two losses to the highly fancied Korea Republic.

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