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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?
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
