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When Cortnee Vine scored the winning penalty against France in the World Cup quarter-final her life changed forever. Now, she can\u2019t even walk down the street without someone recognising her.<\/p>\n

With her new-found fame, you could be forgiven for thinking she had every temptation to take her career overseas, but when it came time to put pen to paper, there was no doubt in her mind about staying with Sydney FC in the A-League competition.<\/p>\n

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Since scoring the winning penalty in the Matildas\u2019 World Cup game against France, Cortnee Vine\u2019s life has changed.<\/span>Credit: <\/span>Getty<\/cite><\/p>\n

\u201cI love Australia, I love Sydney, I have a life here that\u2019s not just football,\u201d Vine said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think a lot of people think it\u2019s [football] your whole life, and I have to make decisions. I have a partner, do I want to leave? There are just a lot of things to weigh up, and for me at the moment I was progressing so well in this league, and my life was so great, that I just don\u2019t see the point in leaving right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the Matildas\u2019 World Cup success, Vine re-signed with Sydney FC for 2023-24 season, while fellow Matildas\u2019 Kyah Simon joined the Central Coast Mariners and Tameka Yallop signed with Brisbane Roar.<\/p>\n

But Vine said more needed to be done to keep players in the domestic competition, and said it was important fans could see their World Cup heroes in Australian stadiums.<\/p>\n

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Current and former Matildas Chloe Logarzo, Elise Kellond-Knight, Kyah Simon and Cortnee Vine ahead of the start of the A-League this weekend.<\/span>Credit: <\/span>Getty<\/cite><\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s so important [retaining talent]. I think it\u2019s one of the main things we should be focusing on, to bring more of the girls [Matildas players] back,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd by doing that we need to make it full-time, we need to pay better and be more professional in this league. It\u2019s getting there, but it still needs so much more work, and that\u2019s why those girls have left, and stayed away because those leagues [overseas] are professional, they pay a lot more than this league, and I just think once we start fixing that they will start to come back.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I think it\u2019s so important for our faces to be here. We represent this country, I think it\u2019s so important to be part of the domestic league and to show girls that this is the way we go [pathways].\u201d<\/p>\n

The A-League Women\u2019s competition gets under way this weekend after expanding to a 12-team competition with a full home-and-away season for the first time.<\/p>\n

But aside from her desire to win a help Sydney to its seventh-consecutive A-League final, Vine has her heart set on an Olympic debut.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m hoping to be a part of [those Olympic] qualifiers coming up. I really want to go to an Olympics, so if I do get selected, I\u2019ll be doing everything possible to play and also just to qualify,\u201d Vine said. \u201cI really want to be there, and that\u2019s one of the goals on my goals board that I\u2019ve been ticking away at the moment, but that\u2019s one of my dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n

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