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Kununurra is to become home to one of Australia's top soccer players.
Perth Glory defender Matt Horsley decided last week to leave the A-League club to join his policewoman wife Deb in Kununurra.
Matt was released from his contract with the Glory on November 22.
33-year-old Matt joined the Glory in 2001.
He will play in the next two club matches against Newcastle and the Central Coast leading up to the soccer recess over Christmas.
During his soccer career he played in two championships with the Wollongong Wolves in the now-defunct National Soccer League.
"I'm happy that I'm basically going out on my terms," Matt told ABC Radio last week.
"Playing pretty good football for myself at the moment, playing in a position I'm not used to and being able to just wind it up and start the next chapter of my life."
Glory coach Steve McMahon said the club had not considered holding Horsley to his contract.
Matt has been looking after the couple's daughter Emily in Perth and is expected to move to Kununurra later this month.
He starred in a weekend match with a brilliant save in the goal area.
His 2003-04 NSL season, the last of the old competition, was cruelly cut short when he damaged knee ligaments against his former club in Wollongong.
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