Wellington Phoenix has started the A-League season strong but New Zealand club will have their hands full when they host a powerful Brisbane Roar team at Westpac Stadium on Saturday.
Brisbane could pay a heavy price for poor finishing against Adelaide. CCM now favoured to win.
Brisbane - gee - doing it the hard way.
Should have beaten a hapless Newcastle defence 6 or 7 -1 including Henrique missing a penalty.
Mitch showed him how to do it a bit later. Brisbane fielded a weakened defence - why hasn't Hingert
started before now?
Brisbane could pay a heavy price for poor finishing against Adelaide. CCM now favoured to win.
Brisbane - gee - doing it the hard way.
Should have beaten a hapless Newcastle defence 6 or 7 -1 including Henrique missing a penalty.
Mitch showed him how to do it a bit later. Brisbane fielded a weakened defence - why hasn't Hingert
started before now?
Ange Postecoglou's return to Brisbane was everything the former Roar head coach would have dreaded, as the defending A-League champions tore his Melbourne Victory side apart, much to the chagrin of fans betting on soccer.
The size of the job in hand for Postecoglou was made clear for all to see as the Roar made relatively easy work of inflicting the Victory's second defeat in the new season, as the hosts ran out 5-0 winners to send their former boss back to Melbourne with his tail between his legs.
Without doubt Persib are one of the best supported clubs in the country. Yet they have woefully
lacked a decent stadium to show off in front of their fans. Siliwangi Stadium in Bandung only holds
about 22,000 while Jalak Harapat Stadium out in Soreang holds about 35,000 but is a bastard to get
to and from.
Melbourne Victory confirmed today that Paul Trimboli has been appointed as Football Operations
Manager. The former Socceroos and South Melbourne star opted for a return home to Melbourne after a
one-year term with Brisbane Roar. Trimboli joins the club having enjoyed success with the
Queenslanders, where he held a similar position last season, as Brisbane
Melbourne Victory has announced today that they've signed former Adelaide United and Brisbane Roar
midfielder, Spase Dilevski, on a one-year deal. After spells at Dutch powerhouse PSV Eindhoven and
English Premier League giants Tottenham Hotspur, Dilevski returned to Australia in 2005 when he
made his Hyundai A-League debut for the Queenslanders, before a second stint
Ange Postecoglou has finally been unveiled as the new Melbourne Victory manager at a press
conference today, signing a three year deal with the A-League's biggest club. Postecoglou quit his
position as coach of Brisbane Roar on Tuesday in order to join Victory and he says he's ready for a
new challenge; "It's a big club, with
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.
Great stuff Perth - you dug in, bought a whole heap of ageing stars and almost snatched the
Championship.Phew - you would never have been worthy Champs, not to the neutral.
So what not?
More of the same?
How long will Travis Dodd be able to bust a gut for 60 minutes, or 34 year old Jacob Burns control
games in the Aussie heat.
It wasn't pretty football in the West but it was a belter of a game. Perth v Wellington. And
arguably two of my least favourite football teams are playing much better football than years gone
by.
But it's not Swansea is it.
Great to see my most hated Coach ex-Ger Iain Ferguson using brain and craft to play full-back Scott
Neville in a switch for my man of the match Billy Mehmet.
Right, can anyone remember where we left the Kickette camper van? Images: Matt Roberts/Getty
Images, Bradley Kanaris/Getty Images.
When it comes to the Australian A-League, our flighty affections lie squarely in Melbourne,
where Harry Kewell and his fam are nearing the end of plying their cuteness.
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.
Wellington were not in this game and will better shooting from Archie Thompson this could have been
6-0. As it was Archie who set up all three goals - all magnificent.
Victory showed us why they are the most entertaining team to watch. But. Also why they, on average,
perform so badly. Too many balls pushed too long with little chance of reward - just giving the
ball away.
If you've ever watched the Brisbane Roar play - and most Aussie's don't have Fox Sports so will
never have seen them - they play to instruction, tactic and a tempo rarely, some say never, seen in
Australia.
There is many elements to their game but one is critical to Australian football development at all
levels.
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...
Nascido em Munique há 31 anos, Thomas Broich é um dos jogadores que mais brilha na primeira liga
australiana, onde representa o Brisbane Roar há duas temporadas. O médio ex-Nuremberga adaptou-se
rapidamente e tornou-se uma das principais figuras do campeão daquele longínquo país, tendo na
sua época de estreia marcado seis golos e feito 14 assistências, sendo eleito o Jogador do Ano do
Brisbane Roar.
Manchester City's new kit has seen the light of day earlier than anticipated after its release date
was unofficially brought forward by a shop in Australia. The Premier League champions' new home kit
was placed on display by a sports retailer Rebel Sports in Brisbane without the club's permission.
It was spotted by a City [.
Mais um jogo das eliminatórias da Copa de 2014, foi realizado no dia 12/06/2012, na cidade de
Brisbane-AUS, onde jogaram as seleções da Austrália (24º no ranking da FIFA) e a seleção do
Japão (23º no ranking da FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções jogaram: Copa do Mundo
2006Kaiserslautern12/06/2006 AUS3:1 (0:1)JPN Group matches
Eliminatórias Copa do Mundo
2010Melbourne17/06/2009 AUS2:1 (0:1)JPN 2010Yokohama11/02/2009 JPN0:0AUS 1970Seoul16/10/1969 AUS1:1
(1:1)JPN First stage1970Seoul10/10/1969 JPN1:3 (1:1)AUS First stage
Copa das Confederações
2001Yokohama07/06/2001 JPN1:0 (1:0)AUS Semi-finals
The hugely talented Nagoya Grampus - loaded with dollars as well - came to Adelaide last night and
were beaten 1-0 by United in the last sixteen of the Asian Champions League.
And what a great game of football it was.
Despite the defensive nature of United there was a lot to like about the Aussies performance up
against such craftsmen from Nagoya.
The World Game are reporting today that Ange Postecoglu has agreed a deal with Melbourne Victory to
become their new head coach for the 2012/13 season: The World Game understands Postecoglou – on
the cusp of a second successive A-League title with Brisbane – is believed to have struck an
agreement to return to his
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