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February 1, 2003 Sweden captures Australia Cup with win over host Australia Australia 1 Sweden 3 Saturday February 1, 2003 Belconnen Soccer Centre, Canberra, Australia Scoring Australia Golebiowski, 38 Sweden Olsson,Salina, 40 Sweden Tornqvist, Jane 49 Sweden Bengtsson, Kristin 73 Australia Nichols, Claire (Kell, Cassandra 77) Salisbury, Cheryl (Grant, Pam 46) Swaffer, Kristyn Slatyer, Thea Garriock, Heather Peters, Joanne Hohnke, Olivia (Crawford, Hayley 85) Karp, Tal (Duus, Bryony 65) Davies, Rhian Golebiowski, Kelly Mann, April (Small, Danielle 68) Game Sweden won the 5th. Australia Cup four-nation tournament after beating Australia displaying polished soccer to dominate throughout the second half. Even though Sweden created the most chances on goal it was (WUSA player to be) Kolebiowski celebrating her 50th cap for Australia by scoring her third goal of the tournament just seven minutes before the end of the first half to give the Matildas the lead. Alas it was not to last as two minutes later Sweden equalized when Salina Olsson evaded two defenders and scored. Soon after the restart Jane Tornqvist log range shot went the keeper to give Sweden the lead, and from then on they controlled the gamed adding a third goal from a corner kick to to seal their win. Post game quote National/AIS Coach Adrian Santrac I was pleased for the chance to play a team of Sweden's calibre, using them as a measure of Australia's current progress. Sweden are right up there with the big four of women's soccer US, Norway, China, and Germany - there's very little between them. This has been a great opportunity for us, an opportunity to see where we are and where we want to be. We have had a number of injury concerns and we've done the best we can. We had to throw several players in at the deep end but that's also given these players the opportunity of this experience.