“We’ve had a couple of really terrific Skype conversations — obviously it’s a little harder to meet people when they live 10,000 miles away — but seeing her work on television, it’s been very clear to me that she’ll bring a nice, contemporary voice to our coverage,” Neal said. “The Matildas, I think you have to consider them in the top five contenders for this World Cup. So it’s great to not have not only a new, fresh, contemporary voice, but also somebody who can speak with knowledge of one of the teams that is certainly going to be contending.”