IN football terms, Australia holds a two-goal advantage over Colombia with around half an hour to play.
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But as all football experts know, a two-goal lead is a dangerous one.
The country appears odds-on to co-host the Women's FIFA World Cup in 2023 with New Zealand after Japan pulled out of the running to host the event on Monday, citing COVID-19 concerns.
Wauchope's Trae McGovern pulled on the green-and-gold four times between 1997 and 1999, declaring the FFA was all-but over the line.
"It's looking like a race we can't lose, however 2020 has been a weird year," she said.
"Japan pulling out helped, but being up against Colombia, I don't know how we could lose."
"These big events tend to get people on the bandwagon."
- Trae McGovern
She now sits on the board of the Matildas Alumni who held a Zoom meeting with several Football Federation Australia delegates last night to discuss their Women's World Cup bid.
Should the FFA's bid ultimately be successful, it would continue the momentum that has been created following the success of the women's national side and the growth of the women's game in Australia.
"For a couple of years now the Matildas have been ranked as our number one team that we love to support which is fantastic," McGovern said.
"We have the goal of continuing to increase women's participation in football so it would be massive to showcase world football to Australia and for people to get out and support the Matildas who may not have before.
"These big events tend to get people on the bandwagon."
McGovern was hopeful a successful bid would add further weight to investing heavily into women's football.
"I'd like to think in a couple of years time the Matildas will be even better than what they are now and that we can invest in them so they can perform to their best in 2023."
The former Matilda was confident past players would be given an opportunity to be a part of history.
"We won't be left behind," she said.
"We are part of the history and it will be a fantastic opportunity for Australia to learn about the whole history of women's football and I'm sure we'll play a big part in that."
Regardless of the outcome of the 2am press conference on Friday morning, McGovern felt women's football would continue to thrive in Australia.
"The Matildas motto is 'we're strong, we're confident, we're pushing forward' so whether we win or lose the bid, we'll continue to push forward with building female participation," she said.
"We'll push forward with building the expansion of the W-League along with trying to get the season extended and facility investment.
"But I can't see us losing (the bid)."
Melbourne city W-League star Rhali Dobson said a successful bid would showcase what the country had to offer in terms of players who looked at the competition as an alternative.
"A lot of players look at travel opportunities, so it would give us a boost from a tourism perspective from players wanting to come here," she said.
"It has a lot of potential to play into the hands of making the pathway for a female football athlete more professional and on a level it should be, because it isn't yet."
Dobson did, however, admit having a variety of timezones in Australia as well as its large overall area could work against the bid.
"One thing that doesn't quite work in our favour is that Australia is a vast country in terms of travel from place to place," she said.
"But they may choose to hold everything on the east coast and in New Zealand which will limit the travel between playing a game in Perth and the next one in Auckland."
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