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 |
19:30 |
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Daegu, Korea |
17:00 |
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Ulsan, Korea |
19:30 |
2:1 (0:0) |
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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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Wollongong Wolves |
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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.”
Viva
la football!
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