Ever Wondered Why So Many Australian Footballers Play Overseas?

 

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Australia squad

Zeljko Kalac (Roda JC Kerkrade, Netherlands), Mark Schwarzer (Middlesbrough, England), Steve Horvat (Melbourne Knights, Australia), Craig Moore (Rangers, Scotland), Shaun Murphy (Sheffield United, England), Kevin Muscat (Wolverhampton, England), Tony Popovic (Crystal Palace, England), Tony Vidmar (Rangers, Scotland), Marco Bresciano (Empoli, Italy), Steve Corica (Sanfrecce Hiroshima, Japan), Brett Emerton (Feyenoord, Netherlands), Stan Lazaridis (Birmingham City, England), Lucas Neill (Blackburn Rovers, England), Paul Okon (Middlesbrough, England), Josip Skoko (Genk, Belgium), Mile Sterjovski (Lille, France), Danny Tiatto (Manchester City, England), Paul Agostino (1860 Munich, Germany), John Aloisi (Osasuna, Spain), Harry Kewell (Leeds United, England), Mark Viduka (Leeds United, England), David Zdrilic (Unterhaching, Germany),Clayton Zane
 

For the packielackeys- don’t worry, be happy, real football goes on! .  Eventually the packielackeys arrive in England and no one’s home!

 

After a lot of grandstanding by clubs in Europe over the release of players the World Cup holders France’s squad for the ‘friendly’ in Melbourne before the Socceroo’s crunch games is:

Fabien Barthez (Manchester United), Gregory Coupet (Lyon), Ulrich Rame (Bordeaux)
Vincent Candela (Roma), Philippe Christanval (Barcelona), Marcel Desailly (Chelsea), Frank Leboeuf (Marseille), Mikael Silvestre (Manchester United), Lilian Thuram (Juventus)
Eric Carriere (Lyon), Christian Karembeu (Olympiakos), Claude Makelele (Real Madrid), Emmanuel Petit (Chelsea), Robert Pires (Arsenal), Patrick Vieira (Arsenal), Zinedine Zidane (Real Madrid)
Christophe Dugarry (Bordeaux), Thierry Henry (Arsenal), David Trezeguet (Juventus Turin), Sylvain Wiltord (Arsenal)

The French fly in travelling in a specially fitted Boeing 747 which includes massage tables and areas where the players could walk and move about freely.  Blissful ignorance from the Flat-Earthers as the world best sporting players enter Melbourne.

Meanwhile in the South American qualifiers Brazil could still be our opponent!  Next week the Socceroos will know their opponents.

TABLA DE POSICIONES

Team

P

W

D

L

GF:GA

PTS.

 x-Argentina

16

12

3

1

39:14

39

 x-Paraguay

16

9

3

4

28:16

30

 x-Ecuador

17

9

3

5

23:20

30

 Brazil

17

8

3

6

28:17

27

 Uruguay

17

7

5

5

18:12

26

 Colombia

17

6

6

5

16:15

24

 Bolivia

17

4

5

8

20:32

17

 Peru

16

4

3

9

13:22

15

 Venezuela

16

4

1

11

15:40

13

 Chile

17

3

2

12

15:27

11

28-03-00   [2]

Bogotá

21:00

Colombia vs. Brazil

0:0

MÉNDEZ Gustavo, URU

26-04-00   [8]

La Paz

12:00

Bolivia vs. Colombia

1:1 (1:1)

ARANA José, PER

04-06-00   [15]

Bogotá

17:30

Colombia vs. Venezuela

3:0 (2:0)

GODOI Oscar, BRA

29-06-00   [20]

Bogotá

21:00

Colombia vs. Argentina

1:3 (1:2)

LARRIONDA Jorge, URU

19-07-00   [25]

Lima

21:10

Peru vs. Colombia

0:1 (0:0)

SÁNCHEZ Mario, CHI

25-07-00   [26]

Quito

16:00

Ecuador vs. Colombia

0:0

AQUINO Ubaldo, PAR

15-08-00   [32]

Bogotá

18:00

Colombia vs. Uruguay

1:0 (0:0)

GIMÉNEZ Daniel, ARG

02-09-00   [37]

Santiago

20:30

Chile vs. Colombia

0:1 (0:0)

GALLESIO Gustavo, URU

07-10-00   [41]

Bogotá

20:00

Colombia vs. Paraguay

0:2 (0:1)

ELIZONDO Horacio, ARG

15-11-00   [47]

São Paulo

16:00

Brazil vs. Colombia

1:0 (0:0)

LARRIONDA PIETRAFIESA Jorge, URU

27-03-01   [55]

Bogotá

19:00

Colombia vs. Bolivia

2:0 (0:0)

SOUZA Wilson, BRA

24-04-01   [57]

San Cristobal

19:00

Venezuela vs. Colombia

2:2 (1:0)

AROS Guido, CHI

03-06-01   [65]

Buenos Aires

15:00

Argentina vs. Colombia

3:0 (3:0)

SÁNCHEZ Mario, CHI

16-08-01   [69]

Bogotá

20:00

Colombia vs. Peru

0:1 (0:0)

RAMOS RIZO Felipe, MEX

05-09-01   [74]

Bogotá

20:30

Colombia vs. Ecuador

0:0

AL AQILY Youssuf, KSA

07-10-01   [76]

Montevideo

16:00

Uruguay vs. Colombia

1:1 (1:0)

COLLINA Pierluigi, ITA

07-11-01   [84]

Bogotá

16:00

Colombia vs. Chile

3:1 (1:1)

GIMENEZ Daniel, ARG

14-11-01   [88]

Asunción

20:40

Paraguay vs. Colombia

 

POLL Graham, ENG

A brief scan of the Telemoron and Ausmoron (owned by the King of Packielackey himself mongrol Murdoch ‘The Mut’) deeply buried the game between Australia and the World Cup holders France in their back pages on the Friday before kick-off!

These monopoly media morons are brain-dead packielackeys who are unable recognise a decent game when they see one.  After all, it is only wogball and real men throw wogs and their children overboard into the sea.  Can’t have wogball followers polluting the centre of the Universe.

 

As the packielackey PM says:

"They know that we will rescue them and ... I think that word has got around and some of the people smugglers are now saying 'Well, the only way to stop this is that as soon as you get inside Australian territory you make sure the vessel is disabled so it can't be turned around and sent back'."

Or what has become his great election slogan

“Let wogs drown.

Vote 1 for Howard”

Where was he at the Olympic Football Final?

Not at the game!  Managed to the other sports-all except football- Cameroonians are black and the Spanish they eat olives!

After all the stadiums where football was played was full of immigrants.

Of course in the land of the flat earthers- where the recessive mutants of Melboring know no sport -where the media mongrol murdoch mogul muck - where world class is where there ain’t no wogs !  A guaranteed win every game.  Where Southern Lights are found in the sky and mutanat synapses fail to flicker!

As the philosopher, “The Great Wolf” an avid Wolves fan once said “There is an inverse relationship between the number of people who go to the football and the crassness of a place.”

Melboring can’t even fill a stadium (only 53000) when the World Cup winners France arrive to challenge a full strength Socceroos!  But then, the goobers of Melboring think tiddleywimps is a sport.  It seems the ozone hole is contagious and their brains leak!  This possibly explains the green film over the Bay-if half-wits can leak brains!

In typical downpouring weather in Melboring, the Socceroos lead France at half-time with a wonderfully executed header by Craig Moore scored from a Stan the Man corner, a Vidmar flick-on and Moorish head into the net, 1-0.  The game ends 1-1 with a typical idiotic referee too fearful to give a clear penalty to Australia for a push into the back of Aloisi in the last minute of the game.

The Ausmoron as usual completely ignored the France game and buried a brief report in their pages even though the main sport report about was a cricket games against NZ which had a crowd of less than 3000!  This typifies the runny MMMMs.

The Pires golley into Muscat’s face that sparked the melee in the game sets up Australia’s next encounter with France as a real grudge match.  The poor French have met their match!

"In a deeply regrettable incident, Robert Pires spat in my face during the first half of the game," Muscat said in a statement.

"This isn't the first time he has done this in a match against Australia, and I wouldn't let it happen to me on the street, let alone during a match," the Wolverhampton Wanderers defender added.

Farina added, "He (Pires) should understand he has a responsibility as a champion of the world.”

Before leaving, French coach Roger Lemerre criticised Muscat's "brutal" approach.

And Golly, golly,golly it’s Lemerre folly!

"Football is not a game of skittles," said Lemerre. "I'm deeply unhappy about that tackle."

The replay clearly shows Dugaree’s awkward fall caused the injury not the Muscat tackle.

 

 

Uruguay 1 Argentina 1 - World Cup result

Scorers: Uruguay - Dario Silva 18  Argentina - Claudio Lopez 44

Uruguay: 1-Fabian Carini; 2-Washington Tais (19-Richard Morales, 63), 3-Alejandro Lembo, 4-Paolo Montero, 6-Dario Rodriguez (17-Mario Regueiro, 82); 7-Gianni Guigou, 5-Pablo Garcia, 8-Gonzalo De los Santos, 20-Alvaro Recoba; 11-Federico Magallanes, 9-Dario Silva (18-Diego Alonso, 48).

Argentina: 1-German Burgos; 4-Mauricio Pochettino, 2-Roberto Fabian Ayala, 6-Walter Samuel; 8-Javier Zanetti, 3-Juan Pablo Sorin, 5-Matias Almeyda, 11-Juan Sebastian Veron, 16-Pablo Aimar (14-Diego Placente, 84); 23-Ariel Ortega (9-Julio Cruz, 48),7-Claudio Lopez.

Referee: Markus Merk (Germany)

Uruguay will meet the Socceroos for the showdown.

Australia plays Uruguay and Meloring cannot even fill the ground!  At least for once there is a decent media coverage of the game.

Australia - Uruguay

1:0 (0:0)

 

Match

Date
20-NOV-01

Venue
Melbourne

Stadium
Melbourne Cricket Ground

Time
20:15

Spectators
84656

 

Goals Scored
MUSCAT Kevin (AUS) 78', penalty.

Australia

Uruguay

[ 1]

SCHWARZER Mark (GK)

[ 1]

CARINI Fabian (GK)

[ 2]

MUSCAT Kevin

[ 2]

TAIS Washington

[ 3]

MOORE Craig

[ 3]

LEMBO Alejandro

[ 4]

OKON Paul

[ 4]

MONTERO Paolo

[ 5]

VIDMAR Tony

[ 5]

GARCIA Pablo

[ 7]

EMERTON Brett

[ 6]

RODRIGUEZ Dario

[ 8]

SKOKO Josip

[ 7]

GUIGOU Gianni

[ 9]

VIDUKA Mark

[ 8]

DE LOS SANTOS Gonzalvo

[10]

KEWELL Harry

[11]

MAGALLANES Federico (-71')

[11]

LAZARIDIS Stan (-46')

[19]

CHEVANTON Ernesto (-77')

[14]

MURPHY Shaun

[20]

RECOBA Alvaro

 

Substitutes

Substitutes

[ 6]

POPOVIC Tony

[ 9]

ALONSO Diego

[12]

KALAC Zeljko (GK)

[10]

OLIVERA Nicolas

[13]

BRESCIANO Marco

[12]

MUNUA Gustavo (GK)

[16]

HORVAT Steve

[14]

BIZERA Joe

[17]

CORICA Steve

[15]

REGUEIRO Mario (+77')

[18]

AGOSTINO Paul (+46')

[16]

GIACOMAZZI Guillermo (+71')

[21]

ALOISI John

[18]

MORALES Richard

 

Coach FARINA Frank

Coach PUA Victor

 

Cautions
RODRIGUEZ Dario (URU) 34', MUSCAT Kevin (AUS) 85'.

Expulsions
none.

Match Officials

Referee CESARI Graziano, ITA

 

Disaster!  Socceroos met will gollies at the airport and lose on the field.  Kewell was the only player who performed.

 

Uruguay - Australia

3:0 (1:0)

 

Match

Date
25-NOV-01

Venue
Montevideo

Stadium
Centenario

Time
16:00

Spectators
62000

 

Goals Scored
SILVA Dario (URU) 14', MORALES Richard (URU) 70', MORALES Richard (URU) 90'.

Uruguay

Australia

[ 1]

CARINI Fabian (GK)

[ 1]

SCHWARZER Mark (GK)

[ 2]

TAIS Washington

[ 2]

MUSCAT Kevin (-62')

[ 3]

LEMBO Alejandro

[ 3]

MOORE Craig

[ 4]

MONTERO Paolo

[ 4]

OKON Paul

[ 5]

GARCIA Pablo

[ 5]

VIDMAR Tony

[ 6]

RODRIGUEZ Dario

[ 7]

EMERTON Brett

[ 7]

GUIGOU Gianni

[ 8]

SKOKO Josip

[ 9]

SILVA Dario (-81')

[ 9]

VIDUKA Mark

[10]

REGUEIRO Mario (-64')

[10]

KEWELL Harry

[11]

MAGALLANES Federico (-65')

[11]

LAZARIDIS Stan

[20]

RECOBA Alvaro

[14]

MURPHY Shaun (-81')

 

Substitutes

Substitutes

[ 8]

DE LOS SANTOS Gonzalvo (+64')

[12]

KALAC Zeljko (GK)

[12]

MUNUA Gustavo (GK)

[13]

BRESCIANO Marco

[14]

SORONDO Gonzalo (+81')

[16]

HORVAT Steve

[15]

GIACOMAZZI Guillermo

[17]

CORICA Steve

[16]

OLIVERA Nicolas

[18]

AGOSTINO Paul (+62')

[18]

MORALES Richard (+65')

[21]

ALOISI John (+81')

[19]

ALONSO Diego

[22]

STERJOVSKI Mile

 

Coach PUA Victor

Coach FARINA Frank

 

Cautions
MUSCAT Kevin (AUS) 32', REGUEIRO Mario (URU) 37', GARCIA Pablo (URU) 66', MORALES Richard (URU) 70', DE LOS SANTOS Gonzalvo (URU) 80', SILVA Dario (URU) 81', CARINI Fabian (URU) 93'.

Expulsions
none.

Match Officials

Referee BUJSAIM Ali, UAE

 

The lack of a sweep causes the loss.  Farina’s mistake over Zelic proves a disaster.

 

The denigration of the Australian game continues in earnest in the media.  The claim is that our game is sub-standard.

 

If so why can’t Colo Colo beat the team second last in the National League in a friendly?

 

News reports of the game show how friendly this game was with the Chilean giants.

 

“An ugly brawl has marred a friendly match between South Melbourne and visiting Chilean side Colo Colo.

The match had been a physical affair, with several of the Chilean players involved in off-the-ball incidents and cynical fouls, including an elbow on South skipper Paul Trimboli which left him with a cut lip.

The match finished a 1-1 draw.”

 

They then lose to a struggling bottom half team Marconi 2-0.

 

The blackout of Australian football is now complete.  No live games or even footage and the Murdoch Monoploy Morons take control of the airways.  Plus the packielackeys have stopped the broadcast of the World Cup in their continued use of monopoly purchasing power to stop football in Australia from being seen.

 

The Head of Australian Soccer is an accountant with little knowledge of football.  In an absurd decision Soccer Australia allow South Melbourne to play the final round by itself with other teams playing on Sunday, making the final round a dead rubber.  This ‘leader’ lost Australia’s game against Italy!  His attempt to gain the glory failed when Australia was defeated in the World Cup qualifier.  This-axe-in-the-back leader has presided on the downgrading of the game in the Australian psyche- a psyche already caught in mass racist hysteria.

 

South Melbourne form last place makes the final play-offs.  Perth gains top spot weeks before the end of competition.  An exciting finals series will be played but no coverage- the monopoly packielackey stables have won the battle to censor football with their colluding racist government lackeys.

 

SBS a former supporter of Australian football has gone into ranting mode to destroy the credibility of the game and increased the coverage of the tiddleywimps games.  No doubt the government officialdom is bearing down from the monopoly tower controlled by the MMMs and their diarrheal buggery.

 

Corporate Australia is so stingy and anti-football that Soccer Australia cannot even afford to send its best available team to the Oceania Cup for the preliminary matches before the Confederations Cup.  Fosters the anti-football lager has displayed its flat-earther mentality.  Stars from football are routinely ignored and considered wogs by the media who write about them undeserving of recognition for high achievement e.g. Viduka, Kewell, Aloisi and Emerton.  All a bit rich in the land where minor sports rules and tiddleywimps aka Victorian Rules is considered world class!  I do believe even Queen Victoria knew the world was round.

 

Perth marches on with a side that looks head and shoulders above the rest.

 

Perth Glory has reinforced its reputation as the best team in the NSL with a 4-1 win in the opening leg of the major semi-final against Newcastle.

The Glory could have had as many as four or five goals by half time as they dominated in front of the 31,900 strong crowd at Subiaco Oval.”

 

Will they fail at the last hurdle again?  Remember the Wolves 3-0 up at half time they still lose at home?  Are they still the nervous Nellies of the competition?

 

 

Despite good crowds in all finals games, the media blackout goes on ignoring the final series with minimal if any reporting of the games in the MM’s press.

 

Olympic defeat Perth 1-0.  The game was live on TV with advertisements throughout play making it a disjointed spectacle for those watching it free-to-air.  It was a very ordinary game where Perth’s attack was nullified by the Sharks after they scored a brilliant goal.

 

0 - 1

 

 

A Milicic 48'

 

Perth Glory

Olympic Sharks

 

1

Jason Petkovic (gk)

2

Matthew Horsley

3

Jamie Harnwell

7

Scott Miller

10

Bobby Despotovski

12

Bradley Hassell (-69')

15

Edgar Aldrighi Junior

16

Damian Mori

17

Gary Faria (-69')

18

Shane Pryce

23

David Tarka

1

Clint Bolton (gk)

4

Paul Kohler

6

Wayne Srhoj (-69')

7

Lindsay Wilson

8

Tom Pondeljak

11

Jade North

14

Greg Owens (-88')

16

Jeromy Harris (-81')

19

Ante Milicic

23

Andrew Packer

28

Ante Juric

 

Substitutes

 

5

Craig Deans

6

Gareth Naven

9

Alistair Edwards (+69')

26

Nick Mrdja (+69')

30

Vince Matassa (gk)

2

Stephen Laybutt (+88')

12

Elias Augerinos

9

Dylan Macallister (+69')

27

Hiroyuki Ishida (+81')

30

Brett Hughes (gk)

 

Cautions

 

B Despotovski 15'
 

W Srhoj 45'+
 

 

Red Cards

 

 

 

 

Referee

Crowd Numbers

Venue

Mark Shield 

42,735 

Subiaco Oval 

 

Next is the World Cup with three aussie footballer playing for other nations.

 

The lack of support by Australia’s corporation who think people who live or have origins from overseas are wogs has resulted in Australia finding it difficult to field a team in the Confederations Cup qualifiers.

 

Chief of Soccer Australia and expert in axe the back attacks, Knop says

 

I don't believe the players union is an issue at all,

"But at this stage I am hopeful we can play, but in reality we may not be able to play.

That reality is that SA simply may not have the money to send a team to the tournament.”

 

Foster’s the antifootball lager shows its true form!

 

The Confederations Cup Qualifiers begin with a team of unpaid local players because Soccer Australia hasn’t the funds to send a properly prepared team.  Even Samoa can do better than that!  Thank you corporate Australia for your support of football (Oops! I mean wogball).

 

Amazingly Australia lose a chance to play in the Confederations Cup.  

 

OFC Nations Cup 2002
All Whites crowned Oceania Champs
Australia 0 - New Zealand 1

 

Farina made a huge mistake again by fielding an unprepared defensive line up against a prepared Kiwi side.  Australia’s best strikers Tom Pondeljak and Bobby Despotovski sat on the sideline watching the Socceroos go behind to the expected defensive blunder to a NZ set piece.  Farina miscalculated with his usual too little too late tactics. Farina was outwitted in the second half by a resilient and well prepared All Whites. 

 

“AUCKLAND, July 14 (AFP) - New Zealand's Ryan Nelson scored a 79th minute goal against Australia here on Sunday to secure the All White's the Oceania Nations Cup soccer final and a berth in next year's lucrative Confederations Cup.

After New Zealand had been on the defensive for most of the game, Nelson swooped on a well-executed free kick from Simon Elliot at the far post and connected with a perfect strike to send the ball into the net.

The win puts New Zealand into the Confederations Cup next year in France and sparked immediate uproar in Australia over the Socceroos failure to secure a place in the rich event.

Acting Soccer Australia (SA) chief executive Greg Bates said the loss against their trans-Tasman rivals was the result of poor management and bad administration.

"People here have to accept responsibility about how we got to this position it's not the team, it's not the IEC (management firm International Entertainment Corporation), it's ourselves," Bates said.

"Coach Frank Farina was given mission impossible in New Zealand. If the administration is in disarray you cannot win on the field. You cannot."

Farina was only able to name his team of home-based players a few days before departure for New Zealand with SA uncertain about even entering the tournament because of dwindling finances.”

 

This is what happens when an axe in the back accountant takes to football.  This is the lowest in Australian football since the Guttendorf debacle.

 

Farina admits his poor tactics.

“SYDNEY, July 15 (AFP) - Socceroo coach Frank Farina returned home late Monday from the disastrous Oceania Nations Cup campaign saying he intends to name his strongest possible side for Australia's future games.”

But why didn’t he put on his best team on the day.  The V. Bomber and the Ghoul are here in Australia and couldn’t be bothered arriving early to help the Socceroos qualify.

 My you, they are here with Leeds playing Colo Colo and even South Melbourne beat them!

 

Viva la football!

Link to the world game

http://www.fira.net/

http://www.alphalink.com.au/~warrior/AusNews.htm

 

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