Sebastian Hassett

Sports Administrator | Leadership, Culture & High Performance | @FIFAMasterAlum
Australian Sports Commission, Office of the CEO.

[Sebastian Hassett @sebth]

Plenty to work with here for Tony Popovic.

Good range of fresh faces and experience.

The hard luck story of Martin Boyle adds another chapter - but opportunity knocks for so many.

McGree’s dynamism would have been beneficial - he’s a big loss. Volpato’s opportunity to shine?

[CommBank Socceroos @Socceroos]

SQUAD CONFIRMED: Introducing your CommBank #Socceroos who will represent Australia at the #FIFAWorldCup 🇦🇺

Congratulations, lads! Go do us all proud 💚💛

📰 All the info: https://t.co/F1kuReZlxM

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Better late than never.

Might be his only chance to ever play at a FIFA World Cup. You never know what the future brings.

Seize your opportunity, Cristian 💪

[CommBank Socceroos @Socceroos]

Cristian Volpato (US Sassuolo Calcio) has been added to the CommBank #Socceroos train-on squad for the #FIFAWorldCup 2026™ and will join the pre-camp in Los Angeles, United States.

🗞️ Details: https://t.co/2zTnK0dpxK

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Neale Daniher.

What a life. What an impact.

The Reverend ❤️

#FightMND

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Congratulations Auckland FC.

Worthy champions - they’ve brought so much to the A-League.

A terrific effort by Steve Corica as manager in particular.

Full marks to owner Bill Foley, who has made a huge investment to ensure this team was competitive from day one.

Champions 🏆

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@philipdalidakis He was an icon at Everton - I’m hopeful when he’s done at Arsenal, he takes over from Moyes.

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Congratulations Arsenal.

Plenty of Gooners in Australia who’ve been there through the bad times - and now the good.

Especially pleased for Mikel Arteta. What a heroic coaching performance to lift this team past the best team of this generation, Pep Guardiola’s Man City.

Epic.

[Stan Sport Football @StanSportFC]

The Arsenal squad watched on as their Premier League title was confirmed 🏆🔒

It’s pure elation as Gunners’ party mode is activated 😎

↳ Premier League. Live & On Demand with 4K on Football’s New Home, Stan Sport. Stream now.

#StanSportAU #PremierLeague #Arsenal

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I was in the Arsenal away end that day at Old Trafford - it probably marked the bottom. But my memory of it was just how incredible the Arsenal fans were.

15 years since and the close shaves, Wenger In/Out, fan TV shenanigans and much more deserved a special ending. They got it.

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@sebth Watching us being destroyed 8-2 . Watching rambo , eduardo, diaby get severely injured . Watch wenger destroy his legacy for staying too long. But its been worth it. Wenger did it all so mikel could walk

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@FreoPope @ShannonGill13 @WhateleySEN Its title is probably the only error.

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@ShannonGill13 @WhateleySEN John Kennedy’s “do something!” audio was hardly known before. Now it’s eternal.

Norm Smith’s sacking is so dramatically captured that its whole emotional spectre came to life again.

EJ’s last Dogs game; Barassi at North; “Nothing more Tigerish”; 1989 GF.

It elevated them all.

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@ShannonGill13 @WhateleySEN This is (by far) the best Australian sports documentary

It was so authoritatively detailed and so well researched that it soon became a ‘single source of truth’ for the game’s history.

Moments that were big in their time - but somewhat forgotten - became immortal because of it.

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What an image. What a moment!

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Perhaps the worst moment of Graham Arnold’s coaching career came in 2007 against Iraq.

In 2026, perhaps the greatest achievement of his entire career comes as coach of Iraq.

Iraq are World Cup bound - for only the 2nd time ever.

Congratulations Arnie 🇦🇺
Congratulations Iraq 🇮🇶

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Mixed emotions for all Matildas fans today

Proud because of how they pushed a champion team, disappointed to get *so* very close.

Top marks to Joe Montemurro 👏

Kudos to Japan. Superb. Their passing/control style is such a lesson. Imagine our spirit paired with that.

One day.

[CommBank Matildas @TheMatildas]

Thank you, Australia 💚💛

This #WAC2026 rewrote history, the biggest and most successful yet. On home soil, you turned up in numbers, in voice, and in support. We felt it every step of the way. 👏

#Matildas #HowWeWaltz #TilitsDone #AFCWomensAsianCup

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The value and prestige of representing Australia in any sport is enormous.

Tony Popovic is absolutely correct to set a hard baseline on this issue.

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@rhettrospective @mjhenderson84 The holy grail really is old Yallourn footage.

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Fabulous result for @TheMatildas and coach Joe Montemurro.

That wasn’t an easy night.

So pleased for Sam Kerr to have THAT moment in front of her home crowd.

Will have to be better in the final, yes, but it’s not beyond this marvellous group.

Go on Tillies. Bring on Saturday.

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The Chinese women’s team won the first SEVEN Asian Cups they entered.

They didn’t lose once.

They’ve won the only Women’s Asian Cup staged in Australia (2006) and are defending WAC champions (2022).

Unbeaten in 2026 WAC.

Don’t underestimate this test for @TheMatildas tonight.

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@aidanfawkes The issue with the old Colac HS site was that it still fell under the remit of Education (not Sport) - with that came an incredibly complex web of simultaneous advocacy and competing interests.

But times are changing; the dream of public access to school sites is becoming policy

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Started my first radio show way back in 2003 with the legendary trio of Adam Rowe, Michael Ciccone & Tom Browne.

We all loved Dennis Cometti; it wasn’t hard to come up with a name for the show: “Centimetre Perfect”

We were far from perfect - but that’s what he was.

RIP Dennis