Soccer-Australia's all-time scorer De Vanna dropped from Olympic squad


FILE PHOTO: 2016 Rio Olympics - Soccer - Belo Horizonte, Brazil - 12/08/2016. Lisa De Vanna (AUS) of Australia and Fabiana (BRA) of Brazil in action. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo

(Reuters) - Lisa De Vanna, Australia's most prolific goal-scorer in women's soccer, has been dropped from the Olympic squad with coach Tony Gustavsson saying there was "no room" for the veteran forward.

De Vanna, 36, was omitted from the Matildas' 25-woman squad released on Tuesday for Olympic warmups away to Denmark on June 10 and Sweden five days later.

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