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In a world where any publicity is good publicity it's fantastic to see football, yes women's
football on the front page of the SMH.
http://www.smh.com.au/sport/football/spectacular-own-goal-as-star-forced-to-choose-codes-20120529-1zhh2.html#utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tweetbutton
Not an alcohol fueled article or a wife bashing court case - no a stoush between a Coach Jitka
Klimkova who simply wants her players to train full-on and be available for all games, including
semi-finals and finals and a talented dual international, Ellyse Perry.
With just 200 points on offer in Canberra Football under the new salary cap, assuming the
administrative nightmare but beautiful plan is passed into play next season - 10 points for each
player - and only 20 players in a squad; it is soon apparent that Canberra FC and Cooma are going
to struggle in years to come.
Crystal Gazing in Canberra Premier League?
With my crystal ball I predict in five years:
Woden Valley, Belconnen and Gungahlin will be the dominant teams in mens and womens football.
Canberra FC will drift to a mid-table team. Canberra FC's aspirations for higher level football -
as in to play in NSW - is already long buried, confirmed by the riots of last years grand final and
further entrenched as their current status will be reduced in coming years.
And there goes the great grassroots dream. And of course the expansion plan. 2013 Canberra gets a
Youth Team. 2015 Asia Cup comes to Canberra for a few games. 2015 Canberra enters the A-League
fully resourced and financed.
Yes Canberra A-League Bid is about to hand $340,000 back to their community members. As early as
next week I'm hearing. We know this amount of money won't give us a team, but we also know that no
other team in the A-League had such Community funds before getting a licence, some didn't even get
it in their annual season ticket revenues.
Victoria won the U13 National Championships which was held in Canberra this week.
With the accent truly on creative football, touch and individual skilled meshed into a passing,
movement game Victoria - perhaps with some of the smallest players - came and conquered all before
them.
Few could match them.
As FFA franchises continue to go under only an idiot would suggest West Sydney and the other nine
are here to stay.
Sad but true.
And if one more little franchise falls than guess what - the FFA who don't want a nine team comp,
neither do Fox, will have to go elsewhere.
In a country as small as ours, with as many failed teams and regions as ours their is only one more
place the FFA can go.
When Ben Buckley and I chatted briefly at the Asia Cup in Bangkok in 2007, okay I don't do brief,
he responded to my question, what is the greatest challenge football faces in Australia? thus:
Grassroots - the greatest challenge and ultimate success of the game will depend on connecting and
getting the grassroots on side.
Simple?
We just firstly see if they get up, secondly see if they survive and thirdly the FFA don't have to
come crawling to Canberra for a team to replace them.
Sad we've have such poor measures of success in the new football.
The Breakers welcomed back defender Taryn Hemmings on Tuesday (Photo: David Silverman /
DSPics.com)
Another recognizable name will don the Breakers' blue this year, as team announced on Tuesday
that defender Taryn Hemmings is returning to the team for its first year in WPSL Elite.
Hemmings, who played for the Breakers for the past two seasons, will join fellow returnees
Leslie Osborne and Katie Schoepfer on the field for Boston this spring.
Girls in the ACT U13 are heading to play in the Australian National Championships in April.
National Coach Tom Sermanni and his Coaching team will be at the Championships to watch the future
players and to pick the All-Star team.
These players will be noted and will have the first chance to impress the National Coach.
Football registration days are upon us - and players can't wait for the May 1 start.
When you're a kid do you know how far away that is!
Woden Valley so long the leaders of girls football - where would the two div 1 Under 13 Rep program
be without the talent produced by Colin Johnstone and the Woden Valley club over the last two
years.
We're a small city in a region of 700,000 people. Not a professional mens football team worthy of a
mention, not now, not in living memory.
And yet we still produce quality - quality footballers and in the case of Joe Simunic, Carl Valeri
who are both still playing, star Internationals.
Throw in excellent A-League stalwarts, Nikolai Topor-Stanley, Matty Kemp and Brisbane Roars Kofi
Danning and we've almost got a half a team.
There was a time under the soon to be booted nicest man in football when Sydney won 1-0 - boring
but they won.
Then in season 2, they lost 1-0. More boring and more frustrating.
Now in Season 3 they lose, by 3, 4 or 5 and that's at home.
Mr Lavicka might be nice - but he's a pretty ordinary coach.
Can you still really play two sports at the elite level in Australia?
Ellyse Perry thinks so and with great support from Matildas Coach Tom Sermanni over the years she
has done so.
But her recent decision to play cricket for Australia and miss the semi and final of the W-League
season left me wondering where now for Ellyse?
Mais um jogo amistoso, foi disputado no dia 07/10/2011, na cidade de Canberra-AUS, onde jogaram as
seleções da Austrália (20º no ranking da FIFA) e a seleção da Malásia (151º no ranking da
FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções nunca haviam jogado.
O árbitro desse jogo, foi: Paul Centragolo-AUS
Scout:
Luke Wilkshire (3.
The result was important - but the attendance of 1750 at the weekend semi final was a record for
Canberra United, has all associated with football in Canberra delighted.
In fact the crowd increased by over 100% from the previous game - could the same happen for this
weeks final?
Brisbane will take on United in the W-League final this weekend and it should be a cracker.
It's hot! Bloody hot.
Australian summer can be a bit like that, can't it, even this year. My friends are gathered, some
want to sit close, others are over dressed, most in green.
Chocolate cake! On a summers day? I went for hot chips!
Move over, it's getting hotter, but there's no space, not in the Canberra stands.
The Smith Report outlined what we already know:
The FFA are a financial management basket case - similarly the PFA.
How else to explain the loss of player wages, clubs and owners in the last 7 years?
In 7 years football has received and earned more money than ever, and yet the professional A-League
clubs have spewed out more money, more owners and more clubs than we could ever have imagined.
Tim, let's call a spade a spade mate!
Seems having seen this stuff promoted across Australia on every media set going I'd thought I'd ask
the question.
Is this Tim Cahill program really giving back to grassroots football?
Now we all know Tim is a great bloke, has great compassion for Australia causes and has been a
great role model for many both on the sporting and family field, and far be it for me to criticise
Tim, but does anyone else feel the, "I really want to give back to the grassroots" line is a great
big Scouse mickey-take.
Canberra United are top of the league. By some margin.
Sally Shipard and Caitlin Munoz are in outstanding form and with Ashleigh Sykes scoring freely now
- Michelle Heyman always scores, and US import Taryn Hemmings belting it home on the weekend, the
good folk from the Capital are starting to get cocky!
Love Han Berger - love his work and what he's doing for the game in Australia but there are a
couple of areas where he and the FFA Technical Group need to improve and could improve our players,
all our players more quickly.
The revolution is on - for some, but very slowly in some areas.
In Canberra for example in clubland we are a long long way behind what constitutes technical
development.
Capital Football have a clear mission to spread the game, the joy of the game.
So when the recent Futsal teams were announced for the National Championships to be played in
Canberra there were some interesting mutterings from around the local futsal scene.
Previously Capital Football has run the Cobras and Colts, two teams in all divisions.
No surprise given their "issues."
But wonder what their response will be.
1.Learn, dynamically rebrand/engage and go again - (requires a massive change of strategy)
2. Head in the sand; and increase Croatian colours and imagery around the ground and celebrate the
annual winning of the ACT Premier League thru simply paying more dough.
No surprise given their "issues."
But wonder what their response will be.
1.Learn, dynamically rebrand/engage and go again - (requires a massive change of strategy)
2. Head in the sand; and increase Croatian colours and imagery around the ground and celebrate the
annual winning of the ACT Premier League thru simply paying more dough.
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The Capital doesn't have an A-League team, the FFA don't want the Capital, it can't be maintained
with the Brumbies and Raiders and now GWS in the city.
You've heard it all before.
But when you step back from the emotion it's Canberra's intelligence that can and needs to get it
over the line.
Local Aussie journos are wetting themselves over the upcoming Melbourne Victory v Sydney FC clash
and are starting to twitter themselves into a frenzy.
They want Brett Emerton and Harry Kewell to play for their respective clubs rather than for
Australia, in Canberra, against Malaysia.
Of course the Malaysia game is a walk in the park and a friendly at that - but it is four days
before the World Cup clash with Oman.
"It's been great. Just seeing Sally Pearson win her Gold Medal race at the World Championships has
really inspired everyone involved in Primary School Soccer this week," said young Athletics Coach
Tiny Passmore.
The Primary School Soccer Tournament is on in Canberra all week and despite all the talk of FFA's
revolution of Small Sided Games the girls are playing on the biggest pitch at the recently and more
appropriately renamed Hawker Junior Athletics Centre.
Interesting positions:
Former Coach Ray Junna thinks we shouldn't import players for Canberra United.
CEO Heather Reid has just imported a Coach into the Club
Former Coach Ray Junna said:
''That link is still important with whoever is the coach there [at Canberra United]
because primarily you want to have most of your local players going to the W-League [and] not
Canberra having to import players yearly because we haven't got the depth here.
Well everyone has an opinion and there is always a debate between those who've played
professionally and those Coaches who haven't.
Do you need to play professionally to develop young players? I don't think so but then I didn't
train professionally - I played in Canberra!!!!
But maybe our Coaches who are full-time, but haven't played professionally have lacked real
guidance from the professional side of the game down the years.
It could happen.
Take Canberra United women's team - and divorce it from Capital Football - and now would be a great
time.
Capital Football do what they are best at - grassroots and local competitions.
The Canberra United professional set-up would gain further expertise and focus in their elite area
and Canberra United would expand to run and promote the elite game in town.
Are Gold Coast junior soccer players better than, and more in number than the thousands in Canberra
and the surrounding region.
Well, no and no, is the answer.
But the current Gold Coast United A-League franchise, despite only pulling a couple of thousand
people per game, and losing almost half their squad this year, still have a pathway and youth model
any young player or parent of a young player in Canberra, would die for.
Australian midfielder Steven Lustica made his debut in the second half and Balakov said
he made the biggest impact of the substitutes.
Canberra's Steven Lustica came on for Hadjuk Split against the Messi-less Barcelona in front of
35,000 in Split.
Lustica could hardly get a game under Miron Bleiberg - too small and physically lacking or some
such label from the Gold Coast manager.
Should football associations and federations call for tenders and financially support the one or
two clubs in a region who can provide the best development model.
Gets the Federation out of Rep and player development - something they have struggled to really
develop over the years - consistently.
Mariners leading the way in Community/Professional Football.
Can't see Canberra ever get it's stuff together in this area - basically no A-League team - no
franchise willing to move things forward.
Capital Football should not run Rep teams in a real football world - but for now they are the best
we have and do the best they can.
There still seems to be a lack of Technical Development in Aussie football - not perhaps for the
chosen 12 kids in a High Performance Federation program but in the rest of the cohort - the other
99% of players.
Australia: Does anyone care?
If 12 and 13 year old boys and girls at ALL levels of the game are expected to play on the same
field as our men - ie the biggest ones you can find - how do we expect the culture of the players,
the watching parents and the small-sided games philosophy to actually take hold across the land.
It's Kanga Cup week and visitors have come from Sydney, Witsundays, NT, Tassie, NZ, Phillipines,
Malaysia and Korea to name some of the 230 plus teams in Canberra this week.
It's cold, it always is in July in the Capital but two things have got my goat this week.
Lots of great football, cheery spirit and great comaraderie.
Based on our vast knowledge of football, and having watched many many W-League games, and all of
the Matildas World Cup games me and my mates (they are known as the Canberra bootroom and shall
remain anonymous at this point) have come up with the team to beat Sweden.
Let's not worry about the shape, too much, just get players who can defend and play through
midfield, link up and make some runs in attacking areas.
Sometimes things in football surprise and delight you.
The performances of Canberra United star Emily Van Egmond, just 17, at the World Cup are doing just
that.
Anyone who watched Van Egmond for Canberra United saw a strong young player time and time again
unable to vary her game from a long, long passing game to something more creative.
