The men in the studio in Sydney were waiting to cross to Turin for the press conference, but Del
Piero hadn't arrived yet, so they spoke about him for half an hour. There were no ad breaks; no
montages; just three sports presenters sitting behind a desk talking about a man who none of them
seemed to know that much about beyond what they had on papers in front of them.
Two-time A-League champion Sydney FC has pulled off the
biggest transfer coup in the competition's eight-year history, signing former Juventus legend
Alessandro Del Piero.
The 37-year-old has signed a two-year deal worth $A2 million per season, making him the highest
paid player in any of Australia's four domestic football codes.
In the beginning, MLS was a little league that merited little notice internationally. Â On occasion
an all star went overseas and their previous career was noted by pundits, but MLS itself was paid
little heed by the Sky Sports of ...
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A sense of history is always relative, and in Australian sport any team, venue or personality
that has been around for more than a couple of decades is venerated as a hallowed asset to society.
Australia played a rugby international against Wales at the Sydney Football Stadium in mid-June, a
venue that had not seen international competition featuring the Wallabies since 1998.
A little over a decade ago, South Melbourne FC took part in the FIFA Club World Championship as
champions of Oceania, trying their luck in a group containing England's Manchester United, Brazil's
Vasco da Gama and Mexico's Nexaca. South Melbourne could then claim to be Australia's most
successful club, winners of four National Soccer League titles.
The idea of community, however tangible or intangible, real or imagined, flourishes at the very
core of football. Without fans, football doesn't exist. Similarly, without readers, AFR would have
died a long, long time ago. Conversation is the greatest source of sustenence in the beautiful
game.
John Aloisi: helping or hurting? - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
With A-League clubs beginning to convince the younger and fitter members of Australia's golden
generation to return to antipodean shores, the moves come with a warning from the country's
favourite penalty-taker, John Aloisi.
The Hyundai A-League's newest team, the Western Sydney Wanderers FC was officially launched on
Monday. As part of its launch the club unveiled its Nike 2012/13 home kit. According to...
The Australia Nike 2012/13 home jersey was launched on Tuesday. The new kit will be the Socceroos'
first choice uniform for the next stage of Asian Qualifiers for the 2014...
Defending Australian A-League champions Brisbane Roar FC have unveiled PUMA home and away kits for
their 2012 AFC Champions League campaign. Both kits feature the PUMA King shirt design used...
The Australia Nike 2012/13 away jersey was launched on Sunday. According to the Football Federation
Australia website: Nike have designed a new away kit for the Qantas Socceroos to celebrate...
Australian A-League club Newcastle Jets unveiled its 2011/12 home and away kits from from
Australian sportswear firm ISC on Friday. According to the club's website, the home kit "sees the
return of Newcastle's iconic colours, red and blue, the same colours worn by fellow Novocastrian
representatives, the Newcastle Knights.
Following the recent launch of its 2011/12 away strip, last season's Australian A-League regular
season second place finishers and playoff finalists Central Coast Mariners Football Club have
officially unveiled their navy blue and yellow hummel 2011/12 home kit and goalkeeper jerseys.
According to the Mariners' website: Central Coast Mariners today officially launched the club's
playing [.
Last season's Australian A-League regular season second place finishers and playoff finalists
Central Coast Mariners Football Club signed a two-year kit deal with Danish sportswear firm hummel
in May. Since then the Central Coast Mariners hummel 2011/12 away jersey has been unveiled and used
extensively during the club's pre-season.
The Australia A-League kit launches continue ahead of the league's early October kickoff. The
latest comes with the unveiling of the Adelaide United FC Errea 2011/12 home and away kits.
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Brisbane Roar Football Club (formerly Queensland Roar Football Club) is a professional soccer club
from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia competing in the Hyundai A-League. The Roar was the 2010/11
A-League regular season and playoff champions. As a result, the team is an automatic entrant into
the 2012 AFC Champions League.
2. We need two more players a la Kewell and Emerton to build the hype. Who? Only Tim Cahill could
spark the media if not the fans but he's a long way from coming home. Dwight Yorke not Robbie
Fowler?
Brisbane Roar secured their second A-League title on the bounce on Sunday evening, though the
manner in which they did so will make your mind swim as your synapses struggle to comprehend the
weapons grade 'what the f**kity' on show.
With the score level at 1-1 and the last few seconds of normal time ebbing away, Brisbane
striker Besart Berisha blustered through the Perth area to find himself clean through, swung his
leg at a bobbling ball, missed entirely and then fell on his arse to cap off the show.
Shane Smeltz stole the headlines as Perth put a strangely negative Melbourne Heart to the
sword.
Perth aren't pretty for the neutral and with Liam Miller off his game it was dire stuff. A strange
second "goal" that clearly wasn't killed the game all hats off to Smeltz for celebrating early -
did he influence the Perth-based linesman who gave a goal.
7:1 win vs Adelaide last night. Oh yes oh yes oh yes. Ra ra ra. We actually are the best in the
World and everyone else is, slowly but surely, learning to live with it.
The question being repeated everywhere is, how come only eleven and a half thousand people saw one
of the greatest football spectacles we might expect to see in club football?
When Dario brilliantly hit the back of the net on 5 minutes it looked as if at last Brisbane's time
had come. Broich had said earlier in the week that they had been lucky. Perhaps that had run
out?
But no. On when the pressure. Fox had asked would Brisbane be able to chase this season, well yes.
RIP Gold Coast United Well, the FFA showed their gutless side today by announcing that Western
Sydney will be the 10th team in a 10 team completion next season. Not one mention of GCU and our
fate. I have been a season member for 3 seasons now and an active agitator to get palmer to [...]
It's the vibe of the thing, your Honour. Dennis Denuto summed it up in the classic 1997 Aussie
movie, The Castle. It is that something that is hard to convey to non-football people, but we all
know what "the vibe" is. Last night I went as usual to watch and support my Gold Coast United [...]
We knew the Melbourne Victory defence, central defence was too slow, too fragile and lacked
Muscat.
And in midfield the pairing of Leigh Broxham and Grant Brebner could never control the game in the
Asian Champions League games - at times the Victory were embarrassing - and these our Aussie
Champions - and this season they've never had the ball, kept the ball or enabled the style boys to
get on the ball.
Tucked into two games. Victory and Adelaide and Brisbane v Sydney.
What treats.
Harry Kewell turned back the clock with a wonderful performance, again. If Archie or Danny could
have finished one or two of their Harry inspired chances Victory would have won.
He's been here a week - who knows who the better Coach is - but football is often about bluff and
baloney and the man from Belfast has it in spades...or so it seems.
Memhet has a deep rich voice but his media efforts were poor, didn't inspire or excite the fans. He
couldn't explain his vision, looked frozen before the camera and when things got tough he had no
bluster or baloney to fall back on.
Rini from Adelaide he's gone, Branko from Newcastle he's gone, Mehmet from Melbourne already
gone...
A-League winner Vitaslav is surely going...The Jets give Championship winningrecently appointed Van
Egmond a guarantee, Fergie is he really still there? and Miron draws 2,000 a week, crowd not
dollars, and now is set to wear a mic in the half-time dressing room.
