Canberra A-League - Most popular for September 2008
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The FFA handed, on a plate, the 11th spot in the A-League to a Melbourne consortium.
Hand in your plan and you get the gig. If you're from Melbourne.
No measuring alternative plans, we want Melbourne and probably Sydney and that's it.
The rest of you, Tassie, Canberra and Wollongong can well.
A young Canberra team took on Sydney FC in a Youth League game yesterday. I know we're not in the
league...yet. But take a look at the names below....plus how quick is Kofi Danning?
How many of these lads could get a paid gig in a Canberra A-League Youth side in 2010if we get an
A-League side?
ADELAIDE UNITED YOUTH TEAM COMING TOGETHER..read below. But don't get envious (it's a wasted
emotion truly,)get even.
Sign up as a Canberra A-League Foundation Member today and you can do more good than you're envy
will ever allow. We'd have our own Youth team. How easy is that?
ADELAIDE UNITED YOUTH TEAM COMING TOGETHER
Adelaide United FC has added to its crop of talent for the National Youth League with Coach Joe
Mullen selecting another four players into The Reds' Youth League squad.
You would think if you play Premier League/ Reserve/Pathway football and ACTAS, Capital Football
Academy that you are very into your football and the development of the game and opportunities of
the game in Canberra.
Training and playing what 3 or 4 nights a week. That's commitment isn't it?
SBS Chief Football Analyst and Former Socceroo Craig Foster was interviewed recently, along with
former Socceroo and Canberra Cosmos player Paul Wade, by freelance journo Julius Ross.
Asked their thoughts on Tassie's A-League bid Fozzie revealed his support for Canberra, the
Nation's Capital and SBS will be running the Canberra A-League story next Sunday on their World
Game show around 5pm.
Having attended last nights Canberra A-League committee meeting I can tell you things are moving
along at an impressive rate.
I can also tell you we are in the fight of our lives and, I believe, only the people of Canberra
can secure this team.
Melbourne hae been handed a second spot for 2010.
Capital Punishment the Canberra A-League Supporters Group are aiming to make their first outing and
flying the flag at a Sydney FC game.
You can join here. There will be family buses, club buses and one for the lads I'm told.
Adelaide United fans celebrate last nights historic win. But how many people will turn-up for the
Semi Final, they're already talking about switching venues to cope with the crowd...
And whilst Australia and particularly Canberra has been slow to grasp the opportunities that Asia
can provide to football, to the city and the region; our own A-League side would benefit the
city/region like no other sport.
Sydney and Melbourne. The FFA research show that two teams in the A-League from these cities would
be great.
But after the weekend's Sydney sporting crowds Canberra hopes must have risen a further notch
Everyone knows the AFL has the most money and least international expenses of any sport in
Australia.
Well it's not the AFL Club's, Adelaide Crows or Port Adelaide. They might have been going 150 years
but who's heard of them outside Melbourne:)
Is there even a Rugby League or Union side from Adelaide?
Adelaide United a club just a few years old, already well known across Pohang, Korea, Changchun,
China and Kashima, Japan.
Anthony Hatton is organising the Canberra A-League fans trip to Sydney v Perth on December the
21st.
T-Shirts, match tickets, travel to and from, Anthony's organised the lot for $85.
Within 30 minutes he's filled a 50 seater bus and got two potential sponsors!!!
How many other clubs could boast such support two years out for a team that doesn't exist.
Foundation Memberships moved past 700 this week. And SBS are expected to show a piece on the
Canberra A-League Bid on Sunday from 5pm.
http://www.a-league4canberra.com.au/currentMembers.cfm
Canberra FC keeper Nathan Denham is the latest local player to sign-up. Who knows he may get a gig
as the keeper.
Canberrans are heading to Sydney FC for a once in a lifetime trip. Join and read about the trip
here
And wear your A-League4 Canberra T-shirts to the first Televised Women's game on the ABC and make
some noise for the cause and Canberra United of course.
And there is planning a foot for a night with.
Canberra A-League already has more Members than The Mariners had for their first game. We're two
years out. And the Mariners have made a profit.
So to the doubters from Canberra's football past, and there's heaps of yer:) it can be done:)
Mariners release below.
"We must also thank each of our sponsors and corporate supporters, who last season
contributed some $3 million to our cause.
The Herald Sun is reporting PriceWaterhouseCoopers are doing an intensive audit for the Australia's
2018 World Cup bid. Hey aren't they the guys doing the Canberra A-League bid:)
And the FFA/Fed Govt want every State Govt has to be on board by Xmas. Aren't the ACT Govt already
supporting the Canberra bid.
Men and Women's Grand Final, Junior Presentation days. Belwest Junior and Senior presentations, ANU
and ANUWSC, Queanbeyan FC are just some of the events volunteers have kindly agreed to sell
Foundation Memberships.
If your club can assist, or can sell memberships themselves, or would like support/forms from our
small but hardy band of volunteers contact me and I'll pass the details on.
Over 700 fully paid up Foundation Members in Canberra v just 500 signed up
supporters (no paid component!) to the South Coast FC bid, who is must be said have been going a
lot longer...which bid would you say is progressing better?
Canberra FC have put a proposal to Capital Football to fully fund a Canberra/Goulburn/Cooma/Yass
inclusive Youth team to play ALL the Youth teams in the A-League. But it appears to have been
rejected.
Canberra FC informed me they offered to open the team to all players and clubs in the Canberra
region providing a pathway, immediately, for all our junior players.
