'I just got started': Matildas' Mackenzie Arnold seeks return to dizzying heights | Jack Snape

Today at 09:00 PM

Goalkeeper was central to one of Australian sport's most dramatic moments but has more to achieve with the national team and a new club side

She was a leading figure in one of Australian sport's most irresistible moments, but Matildas goalkeeper Mackenzie Arnold hopes there are more high points to come. The self-described late bloomer was the hero of Australia's shootout victory against France in the quarter-finals of last year's World Cup, and her biography released this week is subtitled, "My story so far".

That choice of words required some workshopping, and she hopes there will be enough material for a sequel. "We actually did put 'My story' for one bit, but it didn't feel right. [In] 2023, I feel like I just got started, and we're only in 2024 so it was like, I'm not going to really end it there," she says, less than two months after joining Portland Thorns in the USA's NWSL from English club West Ham United. "But the thought process [was] as well that I'm starting at a new team, I'm in a new country, we still have another World Cup, Asian Cup, but I think there's a lot of possibilities to happen."