Goal Keeping Australian Football & Soccer Icon Melissa Barbieri: Red Card For Mummy

Red Card For Mummy & Other Soccer Stories · Sep 5, 2025 · 29m

She's 45 years old, and still is the #1 Keeper for Melbourne City. Melissa Barbieri is an Australian Goal Keeping Legend, former captain of the Matildas, and a stalwart of the team for over a decade. Her view of the game of soccer, women's football, is a view of it's time - a successful woman, still at the peak of her powers, also working as on eof the rare female coaches in the women's game. Melissa is not one to hold back in her views on leadership, life in football as a woman, the gender pay issues and the boys club. And yet her longevity and candour have held in her marvellous stead , as…