The next four-year cycle includes the home 2026 Asian Cup, the 2027 Women’s World Cup and the 2028 Olympics. For now, however, FA is content for Sermanni to oversee Australia’s first outings since that chastening Olympics campaign in Paris.
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The feeling under Sermanni is one of familiarity. The Scot, in one of his previous two stints coaching Australia’s women, gave several of the squad’s most recognisable faces their international debuts. They included Sam Kerr, Emily van Egmond, Caitlin Foord, Steph Catley, Alanna Kennedy, Hayley Raso and Katrina Gorry.
They did not include Carpenter who, despite her seniority, is still only 24 and eight years into her international career. But the Lyon right-back was “very impressed” with what she had seen from Sermanni so far and said he had “voiced that he’s all in with us 100 per cent”.
“I think that’s important, to have that right from the get-go,” Carpenter said. “He’s going to do everything for us that he can to make us play the best football to get results. So I’m very impressed by him coming in, and I think we’re going to work well under him.
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“For us, it’s about playing with confidence, playing with freedom, and I think Tommy’s going to allow us to do that. He’s come in, he’s implemented what he thinks this team is world-class at, and what our strong attributes are.
“We want to play our style of play – the Australian way … represent our country and get back to winning ways. Whether that’s winning 1-0, winning 5-0, scoring goals on transition, building up perfectly. I think that will come, and against different oppositions it’s going to be different.
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“But to be honest, it’s just nice to be back into camp … it’s kind of just starting from scratch again. But it is important for us to get results because we want to win. We don’t like losing.”
