{"id":33125,"date":"2025-05-08T07:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T07:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/33125\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T07:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T07:30:11","slug":"ex-matildas-midfielder-heather-garriock-to-take-over-as-football-australias-interim-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/33125\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Matildas midfielder Heather Garriock to take over as Football Australia&#8217;s interim CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY (AP) \u2014 Long-time Matildas midfielder Heather Garriock will take over as Football Australia\u2019s interim chief executive officer after James Johnson resigned from the role on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Garriock played 130 games for the women\u2019s national team in a career spanning 15 years, including Olympic campaigns in 2000 and 2004 and World Cups in 2003, 2007 and 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Garriock, 42, joined the board of Football Australia in 2021 and was inducted into the sport\u2019s national Hall of Fame the following year for her work as a player, coach, media analyst and administrator.<\/p>\n<p>During a five-year tenure, Johnson guided Football Australia through the COVID-19 pandemic and the co-hosting of the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/womens-world-cup-australia-reaction-england-semifinal-36ca681a0bc5010b1e5333fb48d9bbeb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:2023 Women\u2019s World Cup;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">2023 Women\u2019s World Cup<\/a> with New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs someone who is immensely passionate about Australian football, this decision has not come easy, but I believe the time is right to step down,&#8221; Johnson said in a Football Australia statement that also confirmed Garriock&#8217;s interim role as CEO.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP soccer: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SYDNEY (AP) \u2014 Long-time Matildas midfielder Heather Garriock will take over as Football Australia\u2019s interim chief executive officer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,13020,13019,13021,13022,49,48,13023],"class_list":{"0":"post-33125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-football-australia","10":"tag-heather-garriock","11":"tag-james-johnson","12":"tag-matildas","13":"tag-ncaa","14":"tag-ncaa-football","15":"tag-new-zealand"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114471044693219204","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}