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October 8, 2008

Adelaide United v Bunyodkor

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Result: 3-0 Attendance: 16,998 (Record attendance for Adelaide United. Congratulations!) Crowded House: Watching on TV, the atmosphere at the packed out ground looked amazing. For the 90 minutes, the drums thundered and the fan sang. It was electric. The other codes can only dream of international nights like this. Click to continue reading...
Australian Football @ 08:16 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: Australia, Australian football, Football, Olyroos, Soccer, Socceroos, a-league

October 3, 2008

Round 7: Adelaide v Central Coast

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Result: 3-3 Attendance: 9024 Man of the Match: This was very hard to pick since a lot of players had an up-and-down game. Captain reliable Travis Dodd was consistently dangerous throughout the night, running very direct at defenders which caused the Mariners all sorts of problems. He capped his game with a penalty. Click to continue reading...
Australian Football @ 08:59 PM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: Australia, Australian football, Football, Olyroos, Soccer, Socceroos, a-league

October 1, 2008

Fine Form Awarded

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It's pretty hard to disagree with any of the A-League players selected by Pim as form was evidently the determining factor in selection. Shannon Cole continues his meteoric rise in Australian football and his ability to hit the ball with both feet is something few other players in the squad have. In him and [. Click to continue reading...
Australian Football @ 11:22 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: Australia, Australian football, Football, Olyroos, Soccer, Socceroos, a-league

September 30, 2008

Rethink

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In my previous match reports, I have been very critical of Jedinak. I argued that I didn't think he had much of a future in the national team. I've only recently started to watch him week to week  (and yes, paying for Foxtel is a pain and a drain) and now I understand why [...] Click to continue reading...
Australian Football @ 01:59 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: Australia, Australian football, Football, Olyroos, Socceroos, a-league

September 29, 2008

Rethink

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In my previous match reports, I have been very critical of Jedinak. I argued that I didn't think he had much of a future in the national team. I've only recently started to watch him week to week  (and yes, paying for Foxtel is a pain and a drain) and now I understand why [...] Click to continue reading...
Australian Football @ 01:59 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: Australia, Australian football, Football, Olyroos, Socceroos, a-league

September 12, 2008

Melbourne Victory v Adelaide United

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Melbourne continued their very impressive start to the season with a 1-0 victory after going down to 10 men after Ney Fabiano being sent off for a spitting incident. This performance was probably more impressive than the 5-0 demolition of Newcastle given the way Melbourne controlled the game and limited Adelaide to only a [. Click to continue reading...
Australian Football @ 09:26 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: Australia, Australian football, Football, Newcastle United, Olyroos, Socceroos, a-league, fabiano, victory

August 27, 2008

Tim Flowers NOT Yet Happy With QPR ...Nick Ward Getting Over his Olympic Disappointment

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BBC -Flowers not happy despite victory
QPR assistant manager Tim Flowers insists the team still have a lot to work on despite their 4-0 thrashing of Carlisle in the Carling Cup.
Flowers told BBC London 94.9: "Speaking as a defensive player I was not happy with us. Click to continue reading...
QPR Report @ 12:39 PM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , Carling Cup, Graham Arnold, Ledesma, Melbourne Victory, Nathan Burns, Nick Ward, Olympic Games, Olyroos, emmanuel, hat trick

August 26, 2008

A-League Round 2 Wrap

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Was that the most entertaining and exciting round of A-League ever? With an average of 4.5 goals a game, it probably was. And it was a round that was all about the foreigners, as well as some established local stars. Queensland v Adelaide For the Roar, the three foreigners combined to score an exquisite, and highly technical, [. Click to continue reading...
Australian Football @ 06:37 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: Australia, Australian football, Football, Olyroos, Soccer, Socceroos, a-league, queensland, roar

August 22, 2008

Perth Glory v Newcastle Jets

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If you can get your hands on this game or view a replay, do it as this 3-3 draw was the most entertaining A-League game I have ever seen. It was really all about the foreigners who all played a significant part in the goals and the game overall. There is often a lot of [...] Click to continue reading...
Australian Football @ 09:42 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: Australia, Australian football, Football, Olyroos, Soccer, Socceroos, a-league, foreigners, replay, youth football

August 20, 2008

Graham Arnold..for your own sake go!

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For Australian football's sake...go! There comes a time in everyone's career when it is time to move on...for Graham Arnold, for his own sake if no-one else's it's now.

Arnie has had two Campaigns, an Asia Cup and an Olympic campaign, where he was the Coach.

Who ever gets two Campaigns to fail in World Football? Click to continue reading...
Football in the Capital @ 07:02 PM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , Asia Cup, Australian football, Carl Valeri. FFA, FFA, Frank Farina, Free Kicks, Graham Arnold, Gus Hiddink, Ivory Coast, Olyroos, Rob Baan, World Cup 2006, World Football

August 19, 2008

Future Socceroos - Part 2

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The Maybes The following players should earn caps during the course of the career. The question is more how many and how significant their contribution to the Socceroos will be. Mark Milligan - Did Mark Milligan's Socceroo career reach its peak with his selection for the 2006 World Cup and his involvement in the 2007 Asian Cup? Click to continue reading...
Australian Football @ 06:21 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: Asian Cup, Australia, Australian football, Football, Mark Milligan, Olympics, Olyroos, Soccer, Socceroos, World Cup, a-league, caps

August 16, 2008

Future Socceroos - Part 1

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If history is anything to go by, then at least a handful of this Olyroos squad will go on and become important future members of the Socceroos. I will go through the squad and look at the prospects of each player. I won't go through the over-aged players as their role in the senior team [...] Click to continue reading...
Australian Football @ 10:08 PM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: Australia, Australian football, Football, Olympics, Olyroos, Soccer, Socceroos, prospects, youth football

Aussie Youth: Leading the A-League

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Ben Kantarovski, 16 year old from Newcastle Jets made the most promising 16 year old debut in the NSL or A-League since Mark Viduka...and it was the youth and debutants that caught my eye in the opening couple of games.


The A-League kicked off four seasons ago. Kantarovski, Chris Payne, Evan Berger, Nick Tsatallios and and established stars like James Holland, and Adam Casey, would have been playing junior football wondering where to next? Click to continue reading...
Football in the Capital @ 05:50 PM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , A-League 2008/09, Mark Viduka, Olyroos, Socceroos, junior football, striker

August 14, 2008

The Scapegoat

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Here is one of my favourite quotes: "An opportunity is worth to a person exactly what their preparation enables them to make it". This quote came from Mark Zupan's book, You Gonna Play: How Murderball Saved My Life, about an American quadriplegic athlete who competed at the Olympics. Let's draw an analogy to the Olyroos Olympic [. Click to continue reading...
Australian Football @ 09:32 PM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: Australia, Olympic, Olympics, Olyroos, small sided games

A-League:Ten to watch

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Big kick-off tonight with the F3 Derby. Interestingly the first Mariners Jets Derby drew 5,700. And the Mariners started the first A-League season with 600 Members. Canberra, two years out, has 450 and out team doesn't even have a name yet!

Anyway here's ten to watch and most of them aren't Olyroos:)

Central Mariners:
Well if Mark Bosnich signs up it will be him. Click to continue reading...
Football in the Capital @ 05:35 PM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , A-League 2008/09, Joel Griffiths, Mark Bosnich, Olyroos

August 13, 2008

The Olyroos: Where was the Magic?

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Nearpost Host Russ Gibbs asks the question.....

The Olyroos: Where was the Magic?

By Russ Gibbs

So, that's that then. After building it up for several months in advance the Australian Olympic team have bowed out of the Beijing Games with barely a whimper having picked up a solitary point from their three group matches. Click to continue reading...
Football in the Capital @ 07:31 PM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , Archie Thompson, Ivory Coast, Nathan Burns, Olyroos, Socceroos, final group, goalkeeper, target man

Olympics: Olyroos v Ivory Coast

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The Olyroos' Olympic campaign came to a disappointing end after we were bundled out with a 1-0 loss to the Ivory Coast. Australia's lack of precision and quality finishing in the final third really cost us the game as we did carve out numerous chances, particularly in the first half. With the Elephant's only needing the [. Click to continue reading...
Australian Football @ 09:36 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: Australia, Australian football, Football, Ivory Coast, Olympics, Olyroos, Soccer, Socceroos

Aussies out of Under 23 World Cup

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Australia went out of the Olympics tonight. They lost 1-0 in Tianjin to the Ivory Coast.

And whilst they gave perhaps their best performance of the tournament they never really looked convincing in the the final third, not tonight, or indeed in the whole tournament.

They told us they were a great group of players, battle hardened having qualified through Asia. Click to continue reading...
Football in the Capital @ 08:29 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , Asia, Free Kicks, Graham Arnold, Ivory Coast, Lionel, Nathan Burns, Ned Zelic, Olympics, Olyroos, central defenders, coach, confidence, steam

August 12, 2008

Ed Hollis Tottenham Physio goes Nearpost.

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Nearpost National Show:

Ed Hollis talks about his Tottenham day job.
We preview the A-League, talk Olyroos and update on the Canberra A-League bid.
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Woden Valley's Ed Hollis, Rachael Harrigan, Kadee Hollis and Amy McCloughlin talk Dane Cup, and their trip of a lifetime. Click to continue reading...
Football in the Capital @ 06:27 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , Canberra, Canberra A-League, Ed Hollis, FFA, Ivan, Ivan Slavich, Olyroos, Podcast, Rachael Harrigan, Woden Valley

August 11, 2008

Matildas set for W-League

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Tom Sermanni expects all Matildas to line-up for the W-League opener expected to be late October.

Lisa De Vanna and Kate Gill are the only doubts at this stage but he's hopeful they wil return from Sweden in time to play.

Speaking from China where Sermanni is scouting the Japanese men's group for Olyroo's Coach Graham Arnold the Matildas Coach was delighted with the new league and delighted there would be eight teams. Click to continue reading...
Football in the Capital @ 02:37 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , Asia Cup, Graham Arnold, Olyroos, Sweden, Tom Sermanni, World Cup, coach, matildas, sake

Nearpost Radio:Woden Valley at the Dane Cup

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Nationally we talk A-League kick-off, Olyroos and talk to former Tottenham Physio Ed Hollis

Locally we'll have all the A-League news and talk to Ed Hollis, Rachel Harrigan and Kadee Hollis all have just returned from the Dane Cup with Woden Valley. Should be a great show. Nationally from 6. Click to continue reading...
Football in the Capital @ 02:35 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , Nearpost radio, Olyroos, tottenham hotspur

Olympics: Olyroos v Argentina

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We are all very quick to jump on Arnie's back when we think that he gets it wrong. So, it is refreshing to say that I think the changes to the starting line-up were pretty much on the money. Out went players that would undoubtedly struggle with the pace and trickery of the Argentineans (Topor-Stanley [. Click to continue reading...
Australian Football @ 12:02 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: Australia, Australian football, Football, Olympics, Olyroos, Soccer, Socceroos, money, trickery, youth football

August 10, 2008

Oh Nikita you could have been a hero

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Argentina defeated Australia 1-0 in Shanghai but Perth Glory's Nikita Rukavystya could have stole the show....if he'd have finished one of his three chances.

Argentina ran the show, but Aussie Coach Graham Arnold had his defence working overtime to halt the threat of the Olympic Champions. Click to continue reading...
Football in the Capital @ 06:12 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , Channel 7, David Carney, Graham Arnold, Gus Hiddink, James Troisi, Mark Milligan, Olyroos, Perth Glory, Plan B

Olyroos 0 v Argentina 1: Nikita Rukavytsya almost the hero

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I got to see the 2nd half live on channel 7. Argentina were clearly on another planet to the Olyroos. And yet they couldn't score and were becoming increasingly penulant, firing off at everything. Thompson off Rukavytsya on. 15 seconds later he is away, running into the box from the left and firing a bullet - into the side netting. Click to continue reading...
A seat at the A-League @ 06:02 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: Argentina, Australia, Channel 7, Olyroos, Thompson, crowd

I can see the funny side: When are Olyroos playing Argentina

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At this, largely under 23, level Argentina are probably the world's best. So the Olyroos v Argentina would attract capacity crowds at a ground in Australia.

But on Channel 7 they won't tell when their delayed telecast starts. So there will be no pub loads of fans watching that then. And all the kids whose parents can't afford Foxtel don't even get fair warning and promotion on the free stuff. Click to continue reading...
A seat at the A-League @ 03:58 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: Argentina, Australia, Channel 7, China, Foxtel, Olyroos, Parents, SBS, kickoff

Olympic Football

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Olyroos Get a Lucky Point On Thursday night the Football tournament started the night before the official opening ceremony. And our Olyroos kicked it off with a match against first timers, Serbia. The score ended up 1-1 which is obviously better than losing. Tonight we take on defending Olympic champions, Argentina and the heir apparent to Maradonna, [. Click to continue reading...
Hands On Football @ 11:10 PM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , Argentina, Olyroos, opening ceremony, score

August 9, 2008

Sport with the Olyroos

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Back off our Olyroos.

Reading the reviews of the Serbia game I felt quite cheesed off. It is almost like people thought we were going over there as favourites and 'medal hopes.' If Australia were prepared to invest and focus the time an effort on this football code - then yes I think we would be the best in the world. Click to continue reading...
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Tags: Australia, English Premier League, Marquee, Olympics, Olyroos

Australia Argentina: This one could hurt.

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Big game tonight. Can Arnie's defence hold out? and perhaps more importantly can we create....anything!

Australia earned a point, outplayed generally by Serbia in the opening game, but yet if the fastly improving Billy Celeski had scored rather than unluckily hit the post we would surely have won. Click to continue reading...
Football in the Capital @ 03:37 PM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , Archie Thompson, Brett Holman, Canberra, David Carney, Graham Arnold, Mark Milligan, Messi, Olyroos, Serbia, World Cup, argentinean, hereford, midfield

August 8, 2008

Out-passed and out-classed, but the Olyroos survive

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Beijing Games opener analysis, Olyroos 1 v Serbia 1 GIVEN the context of an average performance, Thursday night's 1-1 result with Serbia was just about as good as it could have been for the Olyroos, and at least keeps them alive. What the game demonstrated above all else was the significant gap in technical "on-the-ball" ability between the two sets of players. Click to continue reading...
The Round Ball Analyst @ 06:31 PM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , Beijing, Graham Arnold, Olyroos, Serbia, games, gap

Snippets: Ex-QPR Scores at the Olympics...Baidoo Update...Parkes and Stewart Birthdays...Team Leaders

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Herald Sun (Australia) - Olyroos draw 1-1 in opener against Serbia
Tom Smithies in Shanghai | August 07, 2008 08:51pm

AUSTRALIA'S Olympic odyssey started in positive fashion last night, with the Olyroos grabbing a point against Serbia in Shanghahi to keep alive their dreams of qualifying for the knockout stages. Click to continue reading...
QPR Report @ 02:18 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , Argentina, David Carney, Graham Arnold, Ivory Coast, Olympics, Olyroos, Serbia, dreams, opponents, shanghai

August 7, 2008

Olympics: Olyroos v Serbia

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There will probably be a lot of negative reports for this game so I'll start with the positives: Positives Federici was excellent. While most of his saves were routine (although difficult), I was impressed by his general command of the box. He needed to be commanding as Serbia racked up the corner count (14 to 1). Click to continue reading...
Australian Football @ 10:03 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: Australia, Australian football, Football, Olympics, Olyroos, Soccer

Olympics start tonight for Olyroos

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9pm on delay on Prime. What can you expect from such a station?

Still, Australia will open the Under 23 World Cup still known by some as the Olympics against Serbia in the Men's football tonight. Nikolai Topor-Stanley, the former Tuggeranong Junior is a certain starter. With Argentina the next opposition we need at least a point or a win to have a hope of going through th group of death. Click to continue reading...
Football in the Capital @ 12:24 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , Argentina, Australia, Olympics, Olyroos, Serbia, Under 23 World Cup, World Cup, opposition

August 5, 2008

Ivan Slavich talks Canberra A-League: Sign up now!

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Ivan Slavich, "Foundation Members to get FREE tickets to all W-League games for FIVE years and FREE entry to all Capital Football Premier League for FIVE years." Have you signed up yet?

Hear all about the bid in tonight's show. The Committee, The State of Play, and how can this bid fail when you hear how many of the Business Community are already on board. Click to continue reading...
Football in the Capital @ 07:02 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: , Canberra, Canberra A-League, Ivan, Olyroos

August 4, 2008

Cloak & Dagger

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It is only a few days out from the start of the Olympic Games. It is rather ironic that the Olyroos Olympic campaign will most likely be determined in 90 minutes of football prior to the opening ceremony. We play Serbia on the 7th and realistically, three points will probably be required for us to [. Click to continue reading...
Australian Football @ 08:08 AM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: Australia, Australian football, Football, Olympic Games, Olympics, Olyroos, Soccer, opening ceremony

July 28, 2008

A closer look at the Australian 2008 Olympic squad

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Australia's U23 team (often referred to as the Olyroos, a variation of the senior team's title "Socceroos") has had mixed fortunes at the Olympic Games since the U23 format was introduced for the Barcelona games in 1992. Prior to Barcelona, Australia had only fielded two teams, one in the Melbourne Games in 1956 (where [. Click to continue reading...
SoccerLens @ 10:48 PM EST | Blog Profile | Post Detail
Tags: Australia, Europe, Liverpool, Olympic Games, Olympic football, Olyroos, Socceroos, fortunes
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