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The other name that has been reported around the Matildas’ role has been current Western United men’s boss John Aloisi, who is out-of-contract at the end of the A-League Men season and who has previously been on Football Australia’s radar when the Socceroo job became vacant.
I asked him about his reported candidacy at his press conference ahead of United’s 3-1 win over Perth Glory on Saturday.
“First of all, I’ll say that even for my name to be associated with such a big role like that, that’s exciting. But there’s always going to be speculation. I’m not going to go too much into it. My contract is up, there’s jobs available, there’s jobs around.
“I’m sure that there will be people thinking that I might be right for certain jobs. But at the moment my full focus is on what I’m doing here with Western United. We’ve got five games to go, an important game tomorrow, and that’s all my focus is on at the moment.