Watch the 2025 Women’s Rugby World Cup live and on-demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nNow, ahead of their own home World Cup in four years’ time, winger Desiree Miller is hoping a strong Wallaroos campaign in England can be the launchpad for a strong run of results and support culminating in the home event in 2029.<\/p>\n
“I think we’re in a really unique and precious position in Australia, we had the ’23 FIFA World Cup \u2026 it really propelled a lot of the support and eyes on women’s sport, which is exactly where we’re heading and we wanted to head,” Miller said.<\/p>\n
“Now we’ve got this World Cup in England, who are a bit ahead of the game in terms of supporting women’s rugby, particularly, and that, again, is going to propel that forward. <\/p>\n
“Hopefully, over the next four years, we can build a really strong foundation and have the same ripple effect that the Matildas have, that England’s having on basically the world and women’s rugby around the world.<\/p>\n
“Hopefully we can carry on that legacy and it just goes onwards and upwards from here.”<\/p>\n
The two sides crossed paths during the 2025 Pacific Four series when the Wallaroos defeated the USA in Canberra – the Matildas beat Argentina at the same ground days later.<\/p>\n
Their meeting sparked a host of Matildas stars, including superstar forward Sam Kerr and Arsenal star Steph Catley, to send the Wallaroos good-luck messages before their England clash last Sunday (AEST).<\/p>\n
“It meant so much,” Miller said on the message. “I remember going to watch their ’23 World Cup and went to three or four games but that started a movement back in Australia\u00a0and really propelled women’s sport in general forward.<\/p>\n
“So to have them, the trailblazers of something really special\u00a0happening in Australia, send out those thoughtful\u00a0and lovely videos to us, it meant a lot and [they’re] great role models so\u00a0to have someone support us like that, it was so cool.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia’s women’s football team, the Matildas, are inspiring the Wallaroos in more than one way as they look…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85,19259],"class_list":["post-131169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-wallaroos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}