Jackson: Australian player emerges from retirement for World Cup

• Lauren Jackson has come out of retirement to play for Australia’s Opals in the Women’s World Cup.
  The 37-year-old first played for her nation as a young person in 1997.
• Multiple times an MVP in the WNBA with the Seattle Storm, Jackson will make her debut one week from now.

Jackson declared her retirement from first class ball in 2016 after a knee injury forestalled her playing at a fifth Olympics in Rio.

“There’s a smidgen of worry. I’m most certainly somewhat frightened and invigorated yet who can say for sure what will occur with my body,” Jackson told Sydney’s Daily Telegraph.

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“It’s been a truly lengthy excursion yet every achievement that I’ve hit I’ve gone ‘I didn’t think I’d arrive at this point’ yet thought I’ll simply push it a piece further and find out how much further I can turn out.”

Jackson got back in the saddle to the game in February with her old neighborhood Albury Wodonga group in a semi-proficient provincial association.

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Australia, sprinters up behind in the United States at the last Women’s World Cup in Spain in 2018, will have the nineteenth version of the worldwide masterpiece in two settings in Sydney from Sept. 22 to Oct. 1.