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Sam Kerr is one the best footballers in the world, occupying a place in fans’ imaginations alongside players like Tim Cahill and Harry Kewell. She plays here and in the US and Australian soccer lovers have the opportunity to watch her take flight in the green and gold in France when the Matildas contest the FIFA Women’s World Cup. In this week’s cover feature, accomplished sports journalist Peter Hanlon charts Kerr’s rise to the top of her sport through the memories and reflections of those who have known her since she was knee-high to a round ball. ●
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Stronger and better than ever entering the World Cup, Matildas sensation Sam Kerr is rewriting record books.
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s expressions of sporting exultation go, it has an inevitability to rival the famous Usain “Lightning” Bolt victory salute. Watch Sam Kerr play soccer, and there’s a good chance you’ll see her take flight. For Australian Sports Commission boss Kate Palmer, it’s the go-to moment that has her beaming when she’s asked if we’ve arrived at a golden era for women in sport. “When the Matildas play, you expect them to win, you expect Sam to score, you expect her to do a backflip in celebration,” Palmer says. “How fabulous.” For Mano Psanoudakis, Kerr’s first coach with Western Knights in Perth, it’s validation – on high rotation – of the vow he made at each season’s presentation night, as he routinely handed one of the two girls in his junior boys’ team the champion player trophy. “Every year I’d say to the whole club, ‘One day, you’re all going to be watching Sam on television – she’s going to play for Australia’,” Psanoudakis says. “To see her backflip after scoring, gosh, I feel proud that I knew her.”
naturals for whom foot and ball can seem attached by Velcro. What she had was an athleticism, rawness of speed and ability to read the game that made onlookers gasp. “She would stay out of the contest then come running through, take it and go. She could steal it on the run at full speed, that was her talent.” His son Nick played midfield, Kerr up front as striker. The Knights’ game plan was simple. “The team strategy was just ‘kick it long to Sam, she’s faster than everyone’,” Nick Psanoudakis says. “And it worked.” Kerr’s dad, Roger, was born in Calcutta to an English father and basketball-playing Indian mother; her mum, Roxanne, is a former high-level netballer with plenty of AFL in her family tree – as well as an uncle, jockey John Miller, who rode Galilee to victory in the 1966 Melbourne Cup. Kerr’s brother Daniel is a 220-game West Coast premiership player who was a regular at his sister’s junior soccer games, as she zipped about wearing his No.4 jersey. Sam’s contribution to the family’s sporting story will trump all if she orchestrates a
“I’ve seen the journey, and I’m over the moon – not just from the footballing perspective, but the person she’s turned into.” GARY VAN EGMOND
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fairy tale at this year’s World Cup in France, which for Australia starts against Italy in Valenciennes on June 9. Buoyed by consistent results over the past two years, the Matildas fear no opponent on the world stage. It’s no coincidence this period has seen the realisation of Kerr’s huge potential. “It was a little bit of her falling in love with the game, to go and practise more, do some of the individual things she needed to do,” van Egmond says of her blossoming, conscious of what Kerr has often admitted – that initially, she didn’t like soccer. Since 2011, she’s lived a global footballer’s whirlwind – half the year at home playing W-League for Perth Glory, the rest in the US, where she’s now with Chicago Red Stars and is the national competition’s all-time greatest goal scorer. Van Egmond (who remembers the young Kerr not as reserved, but “cheeky as hell”) says a light-bulb
Sam Kerr with her dog, Billy the boxer. Kerr is the first Australian female footballer to earn FRANCES ANDRIJICH
Emily van Egmond’s career has run in tandem with Kerr’s; both are 25 and long-time members of the national team. As a Matildas’ assistant, Emily’s father Gary could be excused a coach’s professional detachment when it comes to Kerr’s feats. No chance. “I’ve seen the journey, and I’m over the moon – not just from the footballing perspective, but the person she’s turned into,” Gary van Egmond says. “She’s a credit to herself, to her family, and everyone along the way who’s helped and guided her.” If the current landscape had arrived 15 years earlier, Sam Kerr would never have played soccer, let alone become Australian captain. She was “all AFL”, and only took a round-ball diversion at 12 when playing with the boys was no longer feasible. Psanoudakis remembers a youngster who rarely spoke, and who at first didn’t boast the touch of the
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moment came during her stint with Western New York Flash, alongside legendary American striker Abby Wambach, who inspired her to work harder. Kerr has said of Wambach: “[She] just changed my view on when I leave football what I want people to remember me for.” She’s known an athlete’s hardship – a knee reconstruction in her teens and, in 2015, a foot fracture that sidelined her for six months. She’s emerged stronger, better – and happier.
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his year Kerr reportedly became the first Australian female footballer to earn $1 million in a year, and trumped a host of sponsored male athletes by becoming the face of Nike Australia. In a mini-documentary produced by the sporting behemoth – Sam Kerr: Birthplace of Dreams – Kerr talks about finding love with Perth and Chicago teammate Nikki Stanton, a Seattle native. The couple laugh about Kerr being snapped out of the doldrums as doctors feared the foot injury would end her playing days. Kerr says she “had a breakdown” in a shopping centre, recalling Stanton telling her firmly, “You need to pull it together.” Kerr credits Stanton with helping her reach fulfilment. “It’s really nice to have someone in your life who challenges you to be the best you. That’s been a really big part of the change in my career – is her being herself, she’s just a safe place for me.” ASC chief Palmer is revelling in the bigger picture. She knows the likes of Kerr, Ellyse Perry, Ash Barty and Steph Gilmore – global figures all – are changing the landscape for young girls, forever. To that notion of being in a golden age for women’s sport, she happily says: no, that’s yet to come. “You have a choice now – how great is that?” she declares. “Every single little girl out there can have a choice, and can be recognised for the amazing athletes they truly are.” Having made her choice and embraced it, Kerr is shooting for the stars. Asked in Birthplace of Dreams what might happen if she scores the winning goal in the World Cup final, she pauses, thinks, visualises. Then she answers with a winning smile: “Backflip!” ●
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Good Food Month, where he joins Phil Wood from Point Leo Estate for a dinner on June 5, Andrew McConnell for a Sunday lunch on June 9, and is mentoring the Young Chefs’ Lunch. When I ask if there’s still a place for toughness in the kitchen, he doesn’t exactly say no. “You have to remember that chefs scream orders so people hear those orders. When I was cooking I had 30 chefs in my kitchen. I can’t just take an order and say, ‘In your own time boys and girls, could I have two salads of crab and one beef.’ It doesn’t work like that,” he says. “Service is service; it’s not personal.” Despite his currency, White has a tendency to start his considered sentences with “When I was a young man” – an indicator of how the industry has changed. When he started cooking being a
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the customer always being right. But it’s not about ego; it’s about respecting others. “Rudeness is not correct, is it? They don’t have the right to be rude to staff, what they should do is speak with the manager,” he says. If you ever find yourself across the table from White, make sure it’s not at a degustation. And if you wait on him, for the love of England, don’t ask if he’s enjoying his meal two minutes after it’s served. “I don’t want to be told what I’m going to eat. I don’t want a set menu and tiny little plates of food. If you ask your friends, ‘What’s your favourite restaurant?’ none of them will say Michelin-starred restaurants, or three-hatted restaurants, in your case.” According to White the best restaurants have a comfortable
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here’s no better time of year than winter for a warming Italian restaurant to open, and Melbourne recently gained three. If you need to up the heat, the Dainty Sichuan Group has launched a barbecue concept in the city. Serial cafe opener Jason Jones also unveiled a mammoth new project, the restoration of Stamford Park Homestead in Rowville, while The Mulberry Group set a new standard in foyer cafes with Liminal. A Japanese-inspired brunch spot serving breakfast ramen replaced Apte in Fairfield, which coincidently was Nathan Toleman’s (The Mulberry Group) first cafe in 2006.
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Reflecting the Australian and Japanese heritage of its owners, Kissaten (which is a Japanese tea and coffee shop) puts tsukemono daikon and togarashi on their avocado toast and serves ramen for breakfast. Must order: Hiroshima style okonomiyaki.
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This bayside newcomer focuses on different herbs used in Italy to highlight regionality in dishes and refined cocktails. Bread and pasta are made on the premises and fish and meats are smoked in the kitchen. Must order: spaghetto tomato with crab and macadamia.
Although Sydney’s Longrain is soon to close its doors after nearly 20 years at the end of the month, Melbourne was relatively unscathed by major restaurant deaths in May. That said, vegan cafe Handsome Her in Brunswick fell victim to our city’s saturated market – or perhaps it was due to the optional 18 per cent “man tax” charged to male customers. ●
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Irrespective of what the market is doing, the most important number to consider when buying and selling is the changeover price. The key is to transact intelligently instead of being emotionally attached to a price. Pride can be a seller’s worst enemy in a falling market. Many people mistakenly focus only on their selling price. But, if you sell high in a good market you will also buy high. The same thing applies in a down market, when you sell low you will also buy low. The state of the market hardly matters if you are buying and selling in the same market. In fact many buyers and sellers can end up financially better off when the market is down.
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