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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.
It was reaffirmed that Canberra's possible inclusion in the Hyundai A-League was
postponed for the forseeable future. The idea of a separate, stand-alone Canberra team in the
National Youth League was canvassed, but economic factors were identified as a major impediment at
this stage
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In no particular order:
1. Blatter out.
2. Capital Football to produce a vision, a plan for our boys post-15. (It is possible to make
professional ranks despite missing out on the AIS or ACTAS - just not in Canberra football.)
An A-League Youth team, inspired but not run by Capital Football.
Now if you criticise Capital Football in Canberra you get chastised but sometimes someone needs to
voice what many voices are saying.
What are the priorities for Capital Football going forward?
Let's start with the girls/women. The number one focus for Capital Footbal over the last few years
- and seemingly into the future.
Frustrations abound with Capital Football, Canberra football, to achieve competitive football
post-15 for our boys.
A boy coming out of 4 or 5 training sessions a week can go and train twice a week at the best
Canberra Premier League clubs. Waste of time isn't it if you really want to push on as a player.
The media is a rapid changing landscape. We all know the reason why the paid hacks of the
mainstream media keep going, but what about the bloggers? What is our motivation? In the first of
a two-parter that originated on Twitter and ended up here, Gav
Stone of Les Rosbifs explains his motivation for keeping going.
Great news for Canberra's boys - they finally have somewhere to test their skills outside of the
confines of the local (tiny) boundary.
And it's one of our newest clubs, Boomerangs FC leading the way.
With Canberra FC back in the NSW Cup - okay it's only a limited number of games but it's a start -
and now the Boomerangs in the TOP NSW Futsal league finally, finally our boys post-15 might get
some opportunities worthy of their developing talents.
Sally (Shipard) tweeted:
MATILDAS Internal GAME 2moro (saturday) 2:30pm AIS!Come have a squiz.All vying for
WORLD CUP selection.Will be a competitive entertain
As usual it's all happening in Canberra:
The Olyroos were in town this week - the Young Socceroos and Mustafa Amini was spotted at the AIS
swimming pool during the week.
FFA have written to Canberra A-League Bid Leader (Friday last)stating if/when Canberra can raise
the $6 million start-up fund ($3.5 mill currently) and all other requirements being fulfilled the
FFA are very interested in a team from the Capital.
Hmmmm maybe so - but once bitten twice shy.
Gold Coast United won the A-League Youth title for a second time in a row on the weekend, with two
Canberrans Andrew Baresic and Stephen Lustica securing the victory over the AIS.
And if you were wondering how to get your club to win a Youth Title the answer is simple.
Sign a Canberran.
Are we big enough? In Canberra?
The headline suggests "Small players to get a shot at A-League's best"
Well they don't come any smaller than Canberra football in the eyes of Jim Forrest's FNSW or our
beloved national body the Double FA.
So don't be surprised if Canberra is given the longest most arduous route possible to get a chance
to play a NSW Premier League team, never mind an A-League team.
Both young guys are from Canberra football - both have played many many times for the Australian
under 17 and now Under 20 teams both had to travel thousands of miles to learn their trade at a
very young age.
Bushie probably had the steal on Stephen Lustica in the early years - getting more game time in
more Rep teams at a younger age, but Lustica made his mark loud enough, soon enough, running out
time and time again for the U20s.
Alfred Galustian will be in Canberra - the home of football - to run Coerver Coaching's first
Diploma in Youth Development March 5/6.
Alf and Coerver are currently employed by the FFA to teach the new Skill Acquisition Coaches and by
the English Premier League to teach their young coaches.
