{"id":91557,"date":"2022-05-07T04:09:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T04:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=91557"},"modified":"2022-05-07T04:09:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T04:09:20","slug":"young-matilda-jacynta-galabadaarachchi-has-just-won-two-prestigious-awards-but-may-never-play-for-australia-by-jack-snape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/young-matilda-jacynta-galabadaarachchi-has-just-won-two-prestigious-awards-but-may-never-play-for-australia-by-jack-snape\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Matilda Jacynta Galabadaarachchi has just won two prestigious awards but may never play for Australia By Jack Snape"},"content":{"rendered":"

Young Matilda Jacynta Galabadaarachchi has just won two prestigious awards but may never play for Australia – By\u00a0Jack Snape<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n
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Australian soccer player Jacynta Galabadaarachchi won the player of the season award at Scottish club Celtic for 2021\/22.(Supplied: Instagram)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Source:<\/strong>abc.net.au<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Australia’s national women’s football team the Matildas risks losing\u00a0emerging star Jacynta Galabadaarachchi to Argentina.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fresh off two major awards in the Scottish league where she plays for Celtic, the 20-year-old says she is waiting for a phone call from Matildas coach Tony Gustavsson to tell her where she stands, as she watches her peers from the Young Matildas be brought into the national set up in recent months.<\/span><\/p>\n

And while she hasn’t made up her mind about which country she wants to represent, the Victorian isn’t sure how her skilful, creative game would even work in the national set-up.<\/span><\/p>\n

“My mother is Argentinian and Italian and she would love for me to represent Argentina, but I’m also Australian and I played with Australia with the Young Matildas in the under 17s and the under 20s,” she told the ABC from Glasgow.<\/span><\/p>\n

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