Hayley Raso said that time in camp with the CommBank Matildas was her “happy place,” and she was thrilled to be able to contribute to the team’s success.<\/p>\n
She was speaking after Australia completed a clean sweep over New Zealand, with Raso scoring in both games.<\/p>\n
“It feels really good,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I love playing for Australia. It’s my happy place, and I feel like I thrive here. I’m delighted to get those goals, but even happier to get the win leading into the Asian Cup.<\/p>\n
“I’m definitely feeling good. I really like playing here and playing for Australia. I’m fit, and I’m in a good training environment and getting good games in, week in, week out. So then I come here, and I’m ready to go.”<\/p>\n
She revealed that her footballing life outside of the national team was thriving as well, playing her club football for Eintracht Frankfurt in Germany.<\/p>\n
“I’ve settled really well,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I’m really happy there. I think I found my place. I’m in a good position, and I’m really enjoying myself at the moment.”<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old expressed that the good vibes in the group would help put them in the best possible position to tackle the AFC Women’s Asian Cup 2026\u2122, hosted in Australia in March next year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“There’s good feels around the camp,” she said.<\/p>\n
“We’re obviously preparing for the Asian Cup, so everything we’re doing now is for that. We’re all working really well together. We’re looking forward and making sure we’re focused on what’s ahead, but we wanted to get two wins in these games in preparation for that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hayley Raso said that time in camp with the CommBank Matildas was her “happy place,” and she was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[183987,64,63,177671,952,144014,146579,44545,44,70068],"class_list":["post-328159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-2nd-dec-2025","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-women-vs-new-zealand-women","tag-featured","tag-hayley-raso","tag-international-friendlies-women","tag-matildas-news","tag-news","tag-round-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328159","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=328159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}