The fans should talk about Salisbury. The girl from Newcastle who played in four World Cups and went to two Olympic Games. In 2019 she became the first female footballer to be inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame. What about Peters? Also a Novacastrian who is widely regarded as the best women’s footballer Australia has produced, she was the first Aussie to play professionally in South America as well.

Who knows about Sandra Brentnall? The Nottingham-born immigrant who scored Australia’s first ever international goal at Seymour Shaw Park in 1979.

Let’s not forget Shelley Youman, the Townsville-born but Lake Macquarie-bred survivor of childhood domestic violence, who played 20 times for Australia after she married and had three kids.

“I think it is a huge inspiration hearing about these women, especially Shelley,” admits Blissett. “I think women athletes find it hard to have a family and continue with their professional careers and as someone who hopes to start a family one day, it shows that as a female athlete you can still compete at the highest level and have kids.”

We also need to celebrate some iconic occasions from yesteryear for the Matildas like the 1998 remarkable trip to North Korea for a three game series. Against the odds, Australia returned from Pyongyang with a series win, drawing 0-0 in the first two games before a 1-0 triumph in the third courtesy of Julie Murray’s 72nd minute winner.

What about the win over Greece at the 2004 Athens Olympics, with Garriock’s winner sending Australia to the knockout stages for the first time at an Olympic Games?

Or this one, Salisbury’s 92nd minute equaliser in front of 30,000 screaming fans in Chengdu as Australia drew 2-2 with Canada at the 2007 World Cup in China, a result which saw the Matildas make the knockout stages for the first time at a World Cup. Canada had taken the lead in the 85th minute.

A few days before this, Australia had beaten Ghana 4-1 in Hangzhou to claim their first ever win at a World Cup in what was their fourth appearance. De Vanna scored a double that day, shades of Tim Cahill’s legendary goals against Japan in Kaiserslautern a year earlier.