Matildas coach Joe Montemurro says Australian soccer's inferiority complex must end, backing a predecessor's passionate plea for unity.

Montemurro's Matildas host New Zealand in Adelaide on Tuesday night in their last friendly before the 2026 Women's Asian Cup next March on home soil.

The fixture comes just days after former Matildas coach Alen Stajcic, now the boss of A-League Men 's outfit the Western Sydney Wanderers , offered a blunt appraisal of the game in Australia.

"We're infighting all the time. We're like two seagulls fighting over one chip," Stajcic said .

"We've got nothing and we fight over it. I don't know why we always put ourselves down."

Montemurro agreed with Stajcic, who was Matildas coach from September 2014 until he was sacked in January 2019 .

"I've s

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