Ever Wondered Why So Many Australian Footballers
Play Overseas?
Let the games begin!
Will 2002 be the year Australia qualifies?
All begins at Coffs?
Goalkeepers
Michael Petkovic (South Melbourne), Clint Bolton (Sydney Olympic)
Defenders
Fausto de Amicis (South Melbourne), Hayden Foxe (West Ham), Steve Horvat
(Melbourne Knights), Scott Miller (Perth Glory), Craig Moore (Glasgow Rangers)
Kevin Muscat (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Tony Popovic (Sanfrecce Hiroshima) Tony
Vidmar (Glasgow Rangers),
Midfielders
Simon Colosimo (South Melbourne), Con Boutsianis (South Melbourne), Scott
Chipperfield (Wollongong Wolves) Steve Corica (Sanfrecce Hiroshima) Aurelio
Vidmar (Adelaide City) Lindsay Wilson (Sydney Olympic)
Forwards
John Aloisi (Coventry City) Damian Mori
(Perth Glory), Archie Thompson (Marconi) David Zdrilic - Unterhaching (Germany)
While the
football media blackout continues, controversy surrounds the selection of
Aloisi for the Socceroos. Aloisi can’t get a start at Coventry but the manager blasts the Australian coach
– Farina for daring to select him for the playoffs in Oceania.
"I read that that
Frank Farina said he wouldn't take anybody that was involved in relegation or
maybe championship issues," Strachan told the Coventry official site.
"As far as I'm concerned,
Middlesbrough are fourth from bottom of the league and in competition with us.
"I think it's very
strange that Okon, being a regular for the last I don't know how many years,
has suddenly been left out of the squad and John Aloisi is in.
"But there you go.
I don't know Frank Farina all that well, but I know Terry Venables knows him
well, so maybe he's got a better explanation.
"There's nothing
we can do about it. We pay John's wages and off he goes. While we're battling
away against Manchester United and Leicester, John will be in the sun, playing
against American Samoa."
Meanwhile,
Murdoch’s
packielackey is up to its knuckles in poo. This time it is for players inserting index fingers into anal
passages of opposing players! For crappy packielackeys this is a game of finger
lickin’ good. Naturally, with hush hush
on their web pages. Another
packielackey riot and it is used to bash footbal.
Needless to say the monopoly press and free to air media have avoided
any mention of the beginning of the World Cup campaign for the Socceroos or
buried it with a few words deep inside the newspapers.
Australia wins the first game with a world record score.
AUSTRALIA 22
(John Aloisi 15m 24m 37m 44m 51m
61m, Damian Mori 13m 23m 40m 57m, Kevin Muscat 18m pen 29m pen 53m pen 80m,
David Zdrilic 76m 90m, Scott Chipperfield 4m 81m, Tony Popovich 65m, Tony
Vidmar 73m, Archie Thompson 79m, Con Boutsianis 85m)
TONGA 0
Even the telemoron had a report about the campaign!
“Rangers boss Dick Advocaat has launched a fresh salvo at
Socceroos’ coach, Frank Farina in the wake of Australia’s record victory over
Tonga. Advocaat was seething over the 22-0 scoreline in Coffs Harbour, arguing
that it was clear the Socceroos did not need the services of Rangers duo, Craig
Moore and Tony Vidmar.”
The war of words has begun but instead
of with the opponents it is with the clubs that try and to force the Socceroos
to deny their origins.
Rangers lost the
premiership to Celtic before any Socceroo from their stable stepped onto
Australian soil.
The world record falls
again.
AUSTRALIA 31 AMERICAN SAMOA 0
(all scorers Australia)
- Archie Thompson 12m, 23, 28m, 30m, 322m, 37m, 43m, 45m, 56m, 64m, 66m, 88m,
90m
- David Zrdilic 13m, 21m, 26m, 34m, 59mm, 67m, 78m, 91m
- Tony Popovic 18m, 20m
- Con Boutsianis 10m, 51m, 86m
- Aurelio Vidmar 15m, 82m
- Simon Colosimo 53m, 84m
- Fausto De Amicis 55m
Venue: Coffs Harbour International Stadium.
Crowd 2,500 (approx).
Referee: Ronan Leaustic (Tahiti)
And a world record to
Thompson, who nets 13 in the game.
These were labelled the
so-called second-raters
by the ignorant media in their previous appearances for the Socceroos!
The war of words broke out after Farina said he expected the Fijians to
come out "kicking, punching and brawling‘ a reference to the history of
Fiji football tactics.
Singh the Fijian coach retorted "It's not good to belittle a race
or a country. No matter how good they are
they should so some respect ... it was silly for a professional coach to say
that," Singh said while adding that Farina lacked class.
Socceroos easily make
it through the first round of qualifiers.
AUSTRALIA - 12 (GD +66)
Fiji - 9 (GD +23)
Tonga - 6 (GD -23)
Samoa - 3 (GD -9)
American Samoa - 0 (GD -57)
Now we wait for New
Zealand and the Confederations Cup. Not
many teams get to play the lowest and highest rank team in quick succession.
Amazingly, the finals
begin and the only free-to-air football show (SBS) includes an interview with a
tiddleywimp! Tiddleywimps has never
helped football ever! They call it wogball,
and referred to Carlton Football Club as the Cartlon Dagoes until they forced
their demise. The power of redneck
money has forced its way into SBS. Next
football will no longer be free-to-air as Fosters anti-football dollars
gain momentum.
Wells dunny paper is out
in force in its football bashing. The
issue is about the Perth v Melbourne Knights a finals game where a player’s
finger sign for the Trinity provoked an attack by Knights fans against the
Perth team.
“Croatians
in the crowd at the first leg match in Melbourne on Sunday claim Despotovski, a
Serb, had incited them by making a sign with the thumb and two fingers of his
right hand.
They say the gesture was the victory sign used by Serbian soldiers in the
Balkans War.
Despotovski claims the gesture is nothing more than a symbol of his Orthodox
Christian faith. Stange backed the player as police continued investigations
into claims of death threats against Despotovski.”
There was little mention
of the thugby riots a week earlier but this saturated the Telemoron and even
included dopey Wells finger linkin’ article denigrating football.
The Confederation
Cup begins and Farina picks the following squad..
Australian squad
Frank
Juric (Bayer Leverkusen, Germany), Zeljko Kalac (Roda JC, Netherlands), Mark
Schwarzer (Middlesbrough, England)
Hayden Foxe (West Ham, England), Steve Horvat (Melbourne Knights), Craig Moore
(Rangers, Scotland), Shaun Murphy (Sheffield United, England), Kevin Muscat
(Wolverhampton, England), Tony Popovic (Sanfrecce Hiroshima, Japan),
Tony Vidmar (Rangers, Scotland) Marco Bresciano (Empoli, Italy), Scott Chipperfield
(Wollongong), Steve Corica (Sanfrecce Hiroshima, Japan), Brett Emerton
(Feyenoord, Netherlands), Stan Lazaridis (Birmingham, England), Paul Okon
(capt) (Middlesbrough, England), Josip Skoko (Racing Genk, Belgium), Aurelio
Vidmar (Adelaide City) John Aloisi (Coventry, England), Mile Sterjovski (Lille,
France), Archie Thompson (Marconi), Clayton Zane (Lillestrom, Norway), David
Zdrilic (Unterhaching, Germany).
Meanwhile the ghoul misses
another opportunity to play for Australia and help football develop in the land
that gave him his ability.
“Kewell
and fiancee Sheree Murphy are expecting their first child soon .”
The Socceroos are guaranteed 750,000 US dollars just for turning up as
reigning Oceania champions.
Australia ranked 77
France ranked 1
Mexico ranked 13
Korean Republic 41
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Suwon,
Korea |
19:30 |
Mexico
vs. Australia |
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Daegu,
Korea |
17:00 |
Australia
vs. France |
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03-06-01
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Suwon,
Korea |
19:30 |
Korea
Republic vs. Australia |
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Wolves have been dealt a
body-blow with the postponement of the World Club Championships by FIFA.
”The
emergency committee of world football governing body FIFA decided on Friday to postpone
the 2001 World Club Championship until 2003, mainly because of fixture
congestion.
A statement said FIFA decided that the scheduling of the event, due to take
place in Spain from July 28-August 12, "is particularly inconvenient from
the perspective of national and international fixtures", adding that
national league and Champions League qualifying matches would be taking place
during that time.”
Wolves shake off the
disappointment of the FIFA debacle and progress to the Grand Final with their
best striker missing in the Confederations Cup – Scott Chipperfield.
“The
national soccer league champions were guaranteed a minimum purse of 2.7 million
US dollars for the tournament, which was to start in July in Spain.”
Viduka slams
FIFA about the difficult road to qualifications for the Socceroos and rightly
so!
” "It's stupid. They (FIFA) should get
their act together with that. If they want to take us seriously, put us in a
real group, and not make us bloody qualify through everybody else's backyard.
"Just put us in so we can qualify normally like everybody else
qualifies. Just as long as we know at the end of qualifying that if we missed
out, we weren't good enough, we didn't get enough points, rather than getting
knocked out in a Cup final game. Anything can happen over two legs."” “
The journey to qualification heats up and
the war of words begins in earnest.
Meanwhile the Penguin
stops the broadcast of the national Grand Final in another piece of the
anticompetitive jigsaw to blackout football in Australia. Soccer Australia acquiesces and changes the starting
time to 12 noon so tiddleywimps reigns on the free-to-air.
Australia cruises past Mexico 2-0 in the
Confederations Cup with Murphy and Skoko scoring. France was outstanding against South Korea winning 5-0. Naturally,
the major newspapers e.g. Ausmoron didn’t even report the Socceroos
result. It happened too soon before
publishing i.e. 8pm the night before the morning editions! Does laziness or bigotry rule at The
Moron? Evidence points to the latter.
The Socceroos put away World Cup and
European Champions France 1-0. What
will be the media reception?
There was some reporting of the game but
less than in other parts of the world.
Australia lose to South Korea 0-1 and virtually no media report of the
game!
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Suwon, Korea |
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Daegu, Korea |
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Ulsan, Korea |
19:30 |
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Ulsan, Korea |
19:30 |
4:0 (1:0) |
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Suwon, Korea |
19:30 |
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Wolves line up against
South Melbourne in Grand Final with no lead up publicity in the media, away
from home even though they won the right to stage the Grand Final. Another mistake by SA. The Moron managed a quarter of a page in
preview before the Grand Final buried inside the sports pages- then that is par
for the course.
Wolves win the Grand Final
against South Melbourne in an excellent game of running football 2-1.
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South Melbourne |
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S Petrovski 56', S Young 58' |
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J Anastasiadis 78' |
The war of words has
broken out and the wimpy Japanese are preparing to dive.
“In
the games here and prior to the tournament Australia has shown we can play
football and an attractive brand of football," Farina said. "If the
perception is that we play a physical brand of football, it does not bother
me."
Clearly concerned that Troussier's comments could influence the way the match
is handled, Farina added: "My concern is that Japan's players go down very
quickly and roll around a lot.”
Australia goes down 1-0 in pouring rain to Japan from
a free kick that goes straight through the wall. The rest of the game the Socceroos attacked but couldn’t
convert. Breaking down a packed defence
seems to be the bogyman. We still have
time to refine the attack.
Socceroos are placed third in the Confederations Cup
as they pip Brazil 1-0. Murphy scores
again!
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Goals
Scored:
MURPHY Shaun (AUS) 84' .
Now for the really serious stuff:
Bring on the Kiwis.
No preview in the SMH but then packielackeys
wouldn’t recognise a decent game when they saw one!
The ghoul pikes again!
But the Foxe remains loyal
“They (West Ham) signed me
knowing that I was an international and you have to play these games,” Foxe
said when questioned as to whether West Ham had indicated any problems with him
joining the national team. “I’ve always said that it doesn’t matter who we’re
(Australia) playing in the world, where we are… when I’m called up to play for
Australia I want to go, there’s nothing better than playing for your country.”
The 21-man LG Socceroo
squad to face New Zealand is:
KALAC Zeljko, Goalkeeper, Roda JC, Holland, SCHWARZER Mark, Goalkeeper,
Middlesbrough, England
FOXE Hayden, Defender, West Ham,
England, HORVAT Steve, Defender, Melbourne Knights, Australia
MOORE Craig, Defender, Rangers,
Scotland, MURPHY Shaun, Defender, Sheffield United, England
MUSCAT Kevin, Defender, Wolverhampton
Wanderers, England, POPOVIC Tony,
Defender, Sanfrecce
Hiroshima, Japan, VIDMAR Tony,
Defender, Rangers, Scotland, BRESCIANO
Marco, Midfielder, Empoli,
Italy, CHIPPERFIELD Scott, Midfielder, Wollongong Wolves,
Australia, CORICA Steve, Midfielder,
Sanfrecce Hiroshima, Japan, EMERTON
Brett, Midfielder, Feyenoord,
Holland, LAZARIDIS Stan, Midfielder, Birmingham City, England, OKON Paul, Midfielder, Middlesbrough,
England, SKOKO Josip, Midfielder, Racing Genk, Belgium, TIATTO Danny, Midfielder, Manchester City, England, ALOISI John, Striker, Coventry City, England, STERJOVSKI Mile, Striker, Lille, France, ZANE Clayton, Striker, Lillestrom, Norway, ZDRILIC David, Striker, Unterhaching,
Germany
Emerton scores two wee crackers
and Australia breezes past New Zealand
in a Wellington blow me down as the home side
bust their guts to no avail. Farina is
vindicated in keeping the tribe at the hotel as the Socceroos avoid the
bun-fight at the civic reception with government the night before the
game. Were they expecting the Socceroos
to have a party before beating the All
Whites?! It’s a case of gut’s for
garters for NZ in the next game in Sydney.
Believe it or not there
was even newspaper coverage before the game!
Australia win through to
the next qualifier easily 4-1 in front of 42 000, yet the result was minimised
in the SMH and the Telemoron again!
Biggest crowd of the weekend effectively hidden by the flat earthers!
FULL
TIME - OCEANIA WORLD CUP QUALIFIER PLAY-OFF
- 2nd LEG
AUSTRALIA 4 (David Zdrilic 6' 83', Brett Emerton
37', John Aloisi 56')
defeated
NEW ZEALAND 1 (Vaughan Coveny pen 44')
Aggregate Score: AUSTRALIA 6 defeated NEW ZEALAND 1
Yellow Cards: Paul Okon (AUS) 4'00, Brett Emerton (AUS) 34', Paul
Urlovich (NZ) 46'
Venue: Stadium Australia, Sydney, Australia
Crowd: 41,976
AUSTRALIA LINE-UP:
Mark Schwarzer (gk), Tony Vidmar, Tony Popovic (Shaun Murphy 37'), Craig Moore,
Kevin Muscat, Stan Lazaridis, Josip Skoko (Marco Bresciano 60'), Paul Okon
(captain) (Steve Horvat 60'), Brett Emerton, David Zdrilic , John Aloisi.
NEW ZEALAND LINE-UP:
Jason Batty (gk), Ivan Vicelich, Ryan Nelsen, Chris Zoricich (captain),
Jonathan Perry (Gerard Davis 79’), Simon Elliott, Mark Atkinson (Paul Urlovic
46’), Chris Jackson, Noah Hickey, Chris Killen, Vaughan Coveny.
The brain drain of footballers continues
from the National League. Colosimo
achieves his dream of playing in England-so Cole beware an FA clash with City.
“Manchester City have completed the transfer of Australian international
Simon Colosimo from South Melbourne.”
Football again acts as a force for good.
Australia to play soccer in civil war torn
Solomons
HONIARA, July 25 (AFP) - Australias Socceroos will play a friendly match
against the Solomons here next month, the Solomons Football Federation said
Wednesday.
The country has been caught up in a civil war for the last three years and this
is the first international in that time.
The game on August 18 will mark the official opening of a new stadium, paid for
by FIFA.
An axe in the back and
a new chief controls Soccer Australia despite Tony getting our first
international game against Italy. Will
the new order improve the game? Time
will tell.
Australia are to play
Japan and in front of another media blackout by the Murdoch
packielackeys/tiddleywimps fraternity.
Final Score:
Japan 3 (Yanagisawa 19', Hattori 53', Nakayama 64' pen)
defeated
Australia 0
Australia line-up:
Jason Petkovic (gk), Fausto De Amicis, Stephen Laybutt (61’ Angelo Costanzo),
Steve Horvat, Luke Casserly, Steve Corica, Mark Robertson (46’ Con Boutsianis),
Kasey Wehrman, Scott Chipperfield, David Zdrilic, John Aloisi (69’ Sasho
Petrovski).
Yellow Cards: Kasey Wehrman 89', Angelo Costanzo 90'
A crushing defeat of a
jet-lagged team.
Corporate sponsorship is
so limited that the Socceroos couldn’t even afford to get to Japan or to pay
its players. Emergency loans came from
already cash-strapped local federations.
These state federations who have more players on their books than any
other sport in the country were needed to send our Socceroos to Japan. Soccer Australia needed the prize monies to
pay its accumulated debts and couldn’t even pay its players- players who
travelled around the world to help football in this country.
These shameful companies
such as Fosters, BHP/Billiton, and Australian Wool highlight the lack of
community spirit and their view that football is wogball. This interesting marketing approach is by
global Australian companies who deal daily with ‘the wogs” in Europe, Asian, Oceania,
Africa, Oceania, North America and South America.
Meanwhile Viduka and Kewell are highly rated at 37 and 42. Nice to
see the Australian flag
among the world’s elite for a
change, rather than merely ranking in the minor
sports where ‘world class’
means the best in a sport no one plays e.g. tiddleywimps.
The Joeys
continue to be praise overseas and totally ignored in the local media.
“Postecoglou said that Lara’s interest was not unusual – Soccer is the
nation’s number one sport, and the Joeys have captured the locals’
imaginations.
“All of our games have been sell-outs. We’ve had 22 and-a-half thousand people
each time and tonight, they were hanging from the rafters.”
“They’re crazy about their football over here. Our players like Nathan Coe and
Freddy Agius have become cult heroes. They’re really rapt with the way we
play.”
The
packielackey/Murdoch drivellers conveniently ignore the accolades.
The U17s lose 5-1 to Nigeria- but hey, they are still better than any
packielackey/tiddleywimps who only ever play with themselves!
The centre for torture of
refugees-Canberra and more generally the wog-haters centre of Australia has
finally wiped the Cosmos from the football league with their lack of financial
support. Soccer Australia has been
forced to withdraw the licence for Canberra Cosmos due to their failure to find
sufficient sponsorship for a viable team.
Is it any wonder given the
type of government administrators that live in Canberra where human rights
abuse of refugees is sanctioned? These
government officials are allowing refugees
to die in detention centres
located in the middle of the Australian desert surrounded by razor wire. After all, these refugees probably play that
wog game-football!
In the continuing saga
of “Will he or Won’t he?” it looks like the Ghoul is going to pike out again
for the Socceroos as he sulks about a few home truths and he is even
threatening to sue- in the case of The Ghoul v IEC.
“SYDNEY,
Sept 25 (AFP) - A fresh row has again threatened Leeds United star Harry
Kewell's availability for the Australian national team.
Kewell is reportedly boycotting Australia's friendly international against
world champions France in Melbourne in November because of a long-standing feud
with Dominic Galati, one of the promoters of the match.
Kewell
wants a public apology from Galati over allegations he demanded appearance
money for the Socceroos' matches against Manchester United two years ago --
claims the Leeds midfielder vehemently denies.”
Farina has already
said no show for France – forget about the World Cup qualifier.
Splat on the Mirror.
The Ghoul becomes Kool
And says France and
Qualifier
Here I am
In a turnabout, Kewell
will be playing here for the vital warm-up against France and the South
American Qualifier.
“SYDNEY,
Oct 7 (AFP) - Leeds United star Harry Kewell confirmed Sunday he would play in
Australia's friendly with France and their World Cup qualifiers in November.
Kewell, who played the last of his 10 matches for Australia since his 1996
debut almost two years ago, said the only thing that had deterred him in the
past was the travel.”
The media sham continues. The blackout of the opening of the 2001/2 National Soccer League
was almost complete. The Ausmoron failed
to report the results of the opening games on the first Friday.
In South Australia, redneck Labor parliamentarians are
at it again attacking football. The attack was against members who helped to
build the only international standard football stadium in the country. They claim a conflict of interest and waste
of public monies.
No mention about the packielackey stadia upgrades
costing many hundreds of million of dollars and the packielackey conflict of
interest during the Olympics.
Wasn’t there a former packielackey redneck Labor power broker in charge?
The boards responsible for these upgrades were stacked
with redneck packielackeys! That’s why
there was the hush-hush about the Olympic football tournament in the media.
The media frenzy against refugees focussed on a small boy carrying – you
guessed it a football. Can’t have these
wogs entering the country. Send them back and let their government
torture, murder and maim them! But if
they do get in stickem in the middle of the desert behind razor wire and watchem suicide!
Oh and then there was the Colonial Tiddleywimp Stadium
debacle!
So where do footballers play in Australia? In cow
or
is it GOV paddocks!
Will the pre-emptive strike by Farina have any affect?
“SYDNEY,
Oct 9 (AFP) - Australian national coach Frank Farina expects world body FIFA to
change the dates of the Socceroos' World Cup play-off matches with the
yet-to-be-determined fifth-placed South American team.
Farina also says he wouldn't be surprised if English Premier League clubs used
the US-British military strikes on Afghanistan as an excuse to dissuade their
French stars from flying to Melbourne for next month's friendly against
Australia.
Both actions would disrupt the Socceroos' preparations as they attempt to
qualify for the 2002 World Cup finals in Japan and Korea for the first time
since 1974.”
Bring on the qualifiers!
Viva la football!
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