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Check out the latest domestic and international stats, match logs, goals, height, weight and more for Hayley Raso playing for Australia women's national team, Portland Thorns FC and Brisbane Roar FC in the NWSL, AFC Women's Asian Cup and Women's Super League
- September 5, 1994
- 1 Fighting Talk
- 2 Final Foe
- 3 Olympic Dream
- 4 Raso Thorn
- 5 Dreams
- 6 Resilience
- 7 Hopes For The Future
- 8 Working Her Socks Off
- 9 Don’T Look Back
- 10 Blue Ribbon
Hayley describes herself as a ‘fighter’; a versatile, fast-paced winger, and feels City’s ‘aggressive’ style of play suits her game perfectly. “I think I’m a bit of a fighter,” she reflected. “I like to attack a lot. “I’m obviously a winger but I have been playing as a full-back recently so I can be versatile. “There’s a lot of areas I feel I can s...
Raso played against City for Everton in the Women’s FA Cup Final – and played alongside Jill Scottwith the Toffees last season. She admits she’s glad to be playing alongside Taylor’s squad, rather than against them! “I always thought City were a really top team,” she said. “They were always so tough to play against as anybody would say. “To have be...
The 26-year-old joins the Club having represented Australia at the Olympics in Tokyo this summer – a feat she deems her career highlight to date. The winger helped her side to the semi-finals, defeating her new Team GB teammates in the process, as the Matildasreached the third-place play-off. “Going to the Olympics was such an incredible experience...
Raso also enjoyed stints in America with the Portland Thorns and Washington Spirit. During her time with the Thorns, she clinched the National Women’s Soccer League Championship and Shield, and was also named as Rose City Riveters’ Most Valuable Player in 2017. She believes gaining valuable experience of a new country and culture has served her wel...
The winger’s passion for football was sparked by her brother’s love of the sport. Having already achieved two lifelong dreams of representing her country at the Olympics and World Cup, she says her next ambition is to make her Champions League debut. “I started playing when I was eight because my older brother played,” she remembered. “He doesn’t p...
In August 2018, Raso suffered a career-threatening injury, fracturing three vertebrae in her back. She returned to action after just six months, following a gruelling rehabilitation in which she had to learn to walk again, demonstrating remarkable strength. She says the experience shaped her as a player and a person with her mother – her biggest in...
Off the pitch, she describes herself as ‘fun and bubbly’, who enjoys spending time with her family. She is also studying to be a paramedic – another childhood dream she hopes to realise, after she hangs up her boots. “Ever since I was little, I wanted to do that,” she stated. “Out of school, I started studying and although it’s been a little bit ch...
She says she is very superstitious and has to turn her socks inside out before a game! “This is going to sound really silly but I turn my socks inside out before I put them on and I always put my left one on before my right,” she revealed. “I honestly don’t know where it came from but it stuck! “I’m so superstitious – if I eat a meal and then I pla...
She says the best piece of advice she has ever received is: ‘Don’t look back. Leave it all on the track’ – a motto she has tattooed on her foot. “My mom used to say it all the time, growing up, when I was playing sport,” she recalled. “Leave everything you can out there.” She also has another tattoo of her national team number.
Hayley wears a ribbon in her hair while she’s playing – something she has done since she was a youngster. Her grandma has already sent her sky blue one to match her City kit! “I’ve worn a ribbon for my whole career,” she explained. “My grandma always matches my ribbon to my kits so she’s sent my new ones over for this season. “It’s pretty cute.” Se...
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Sep 29, 2021 · Hayley Raso has created her own identity as a fast-paced winger who consistently works hard to win the ball back for her team. Her famous ribbon matched to the colour of her jersey has become her trademark, a way to easily notice her on the pitch as she whips in a cross or scores a cracking goal.
Raso has played on the Australian women's national soccer team, the Matildas, since 2012 and had represented the national team in the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup and the 2020 Summer Olympics. She previously played for the under-20 national team , the Young Matildas.
The Matildas will be hoping Raso stretches that streak to three matches in the quarter-final against either France or Morocco, who play in Adelaide on Tuesday. Hear from Matildas winger Hayley...
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