Guten Morgen! It is very quiet in our section of the hotel this morning as all the girls wake after a late night of watching the the post game video. Yesterday we played our first game against Germany here in Essen and it certainly wasn’t pretty. A very important game for the Germans as one [...]

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The Hockeyroos have been travelling Europe for the past week in a warm up series before the 4 Nations. Today the 4 Nations tournament begins for us in Essen Germany. We play 3 games in 3 days starting with Ireland tonight at 7pm. The group has had some exciting adventures since arriving in England over [...]

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Today we beat Ireland 4-1 so we are off to the world cup. A lot of hard work ahead but we couldnt be happier. Great win and a great tournament. 20 goals for, 2 goals against, 4 wins from 4.

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With one day to go at the World Cup Qualifier event in Chile the Hockeyroos have the world cup in sight. We have won 3 from 3 games now after beating Chile 3-0, Malaysia 9-0 then a close 2-1 win over Scotland yesterday. I have been fortunate enough to have played both the Malaysia and Scotland [...]

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Good morning/night whatever it is there now We are one step closer to making it to the world cup. This afternoon we beat Chile 5-0 in our first game of the tournament. It was a pretty good game and a consistent performance from us. No PC’s against and Cronky only got 2 touches. We created [...]

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The Hockeyroos have arrived in Chile and last night we played an international test match against Chile which we won 4-0. A match purely for practice in the lead up to our World Cup Qualifier event but nevertheless a great start for us. The field is located at the foot of the andies mountains which [...]

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So close! The 2009 Samsung Champions trophy is over and we are going home with silver. In the most intense game of the tournament the Hockeyroos went down to Argentina in strokes after staying at 0-0 after full time then extra time. It was a battle of the midfields with neither team having many good [...]

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Wow, what an exciting week we have had at champions Trophy. Last night we smashed the poms 4-0 in a great game in the freezing and wet Sydney weather. Wizza (Nic Arrold) scored two awesome short corner flicks, which were then topped off with goals to Casey and Hope. Everyone was really pleased with the [...]

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We have played 2 games now and we are sitting at one and one. Yesterday we beat Germany in a great performance 2-0 but unfortunately couldn’t back it up today and went down to the Argies 1-0. It was a tight game and my first experience with the video ref. A goal was scored which [...]

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Here are a few snaps from the Sunrise News Channel 7 that featured some footage of our training…so we took the chance to show off our custom Hockeyroos pads. We even got Fifi Box (the presenter) to try on our gear; We begin the Samsung Hockey Champions Trophy campaign on Saturday against Germany. Bye for [...]

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