Australia v South Korea: women’s international football friendly – live
Updates from the Matildas match at McDonald Jones StadiumKick off time in Newcastle is 7.30pm AESTAny thoughts? Get in touch with Joey on email
The two sides are making their way onto the pitch. The Matildas will be wearing their black away kits this evening (actually playing in Australia a secondary consideration, clearly) while the Koreans will be in red.
The other name that has been reported around the Matildas’ role has been current Western United men’s boss John Aloisi, who is out-of-contract at the end of the A-League Men season and who has previously been on Football Australia’s radar when the Socceroo job became vacant.
“First of all, I’ll say that even for my name to be associated with such a big role like that, that’s exciting. But there’s always going to be speculation. I’m not going to go too much into it. My contract is up, there’s jobs available, there’s jobs around.
“I’m sure that there will be people thinking that I might be right for certain jobs. But at the moment my full focus is on what I’m doing here with Western United. We’ve got five games to go, an important game tomorrow, and that’s all my focus is on at the moment.
