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Young Matilda Jacynta Galabadaarachchi has just won two prestigious awards but may never play for Australia – By Jack Snape Source:abc.net.au Australia’s national women’s football team the Matildas risks losing emerging star Jacynta Galabadaarachchi to Argentina. Fresh off two major awards in the Scottish league where she plays for Celtic, the 20-year-old says she is waiting for a phone call from Matildas coach Tony Gustavsson to tell her where she stands, as she watches her peers from the Young Matildas be brought into the national set up in recent months. And while she hasn’t made up her mind about which country she wants to represent, the Victorian isn’t sure how her skilful, creative game would even work in the national set-up. “My mother is Argentinian and Italian and she would love for me to represent Argentina, but I’m also Australian and I played with Australia with the Young Matildas in the under ...