WATCH: Jets player Zoe Karipidis talks about her A-League debut

Eighteen-year-old Zoe Karipidis at Newcastle Jets training on October 31, 2023.

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00:00 Zoe, you made your A-League debut in the last game.

00:03 Can you tell us a little bit about that?

00:05 Yeah, no, that was a really great experience,

00:06 you know, playing with, like, Nexta Tash and Cass

00:10 and all the girls that kind of, like, I looked up to

00:12 when I was, like, younger.

00:14 It was a really great experience.

00:17 It was unlucky to the result, obviously,

00:19 but, no, it was really fun.

00:21 I really enjoyed it and, yeah,

00:23 keen for next time I get to be on the pitch.

00:26 When you came into the Jets this year,

00:30 what kind of goals did you set for yourself

00:31 and did you expect to get your debut so soon?

00:35 Well, I came into this with the mindset of, like,

00:37 anything sort of is possible.

00:39 If I work hard, I can earn my spot in starting 11,

00:44 which I just, I put a lot of effort into training

00:46 and worked hard before the season.

00:49 I wasn't expecting it, but I really wanted it.

00:52 That was probably my main goal coming in,

00:54 just to not, like, even though I'm one of the younger ones,

00:56 just pushing myself to be good enough

00:59 to be in that starting 11.

01:01 And what's kind of your goals for the rest of the season,

01:03 I guess, now that you have broken into that starting side?

01:07 Probably just to solidify my spot in that starting 11

01:12 and just keep working on,

01:13 'cause there's still a lot of things in my game

01:14 that, obviously, I need to keep improving on,

01:16 so just working on those sort of things

01:18 throughout the season to solidify my spot.