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Good to see Merryn Sherwood and the Canberra Times giving increased and excellent coverage to
Canberra United.
News this week:
Former Canberra based Matilda Sally Shipard will not return to football and play in the W-League
this year. She doesn't rule it out in the future.
FFA Ben Buckley, pictured alongside Frank Lowy, invites Canberra to bid.
Pawl Cubbin from Zoo to invest! Well done Pawl, leading the way. Who will be next?
Merryn Sherwood from the Canberra Times has the story many football fans in this town hae been
waiting for: Canberra to bid and read more about the Ivan Slavich team below.
400 Football believers have got behind the Ivan Slavich lead Canberra A-League bid and become
Foundation Members, and there are some local legends signing up.....
Here's just a few:
Former Canberra Times football journo Graham Cooke, Paul Murphy, Referee, Angelo Konstantinou,
Futsalroo, Canberra A-League Ambassador Amelia Efkarpidis, Canberra FC's Bernie Lustica, Belconnen
United's Steve Forshaw, ANU Lecturer and Glasgow Rangers fan Alastair Greig, Football writer Nik
Guoth, Tony Bush (Goulburn) Cor Van Leeuwen (Cooma FC) Cass Hampton and Gail McNamara (ANU) and
Canberra Times are giving the A-League bid a great boost Ned Zelic has signed up and is keen to see
a team in Canberra. Good stuff Chris Dutton and The Canberra Times and great support from Ned and
Carl Valeri. Come on Canberra let's sign up. We can do it.
Merryn Sherwood from the Canberra Times scoops the story on Danny Vukovic,
He's been banned from the Olympics for striking a referee, but Central Coast Mariners
goalkeeper Danny Vukovic is clear to play against the ACT Rockets at Deakin tonight.
What is going on!
Canberra soccer season kicks off with thousands on the team
By Merryn Sherwood
Canberra Times journalist Merryn Sherwood wrote one of the best football season openers I've ever
seen in Canberra. A few people have requested the whole article.
Merryn has kindly agreed for me to republish it here.
Ivan Slavich's delivery, supported by excellent media, viral, tv, poster and web design campaign
from Ash Morgan and the team at Zoo receieved an overwhelming vote of support from Canberra
A-League inaugural Ambassadors.
Canberra's favourite football journo Merryn Sherwood from the Canberra Times has a story in the
paper and for more from me on the meeting read on.
Business Editor John Thistleton wrote this article on the Canberra A-League. It appeared in
Saturday's Forum pages. Reprinted here in case you missed it:)
A positive yet realistic piece I thought. What say you?
And The stakes are high and potential ad-viewing audiences huge – for businesses
backing Canberra's entry into Australia's A-League soccer competition.
Canberra Anti-Football media awards..entry for 2008.
The Canberra Times, yes they've employed me to cover the Asia Cup and paid me for many other
articles, but there is nothing like telling it like it is!..and losing any further employment
opportunities perhaps!
Have a look at the Sports page on the web That's right all the sports headings you could want, ten
headings, but no football or even soccer as they like to call it!
The Weekender: This week, of course, it's the journey of the new Canberra A-League website.
I've asked people from ANU 9th Grade, Canberra City Women's team, Capital Football Academies and
more.
"How many people from your team will sign-up do you think?
The reply is the same.
"Over 80% I should think.
We are moving quickly towards our August 24th Bid Submission date:
Ivan Slavic is securing the funds we need, and we the fans of football can now assist to secure the
members for our Canberra team. People and money will be the key factors in passing the FFA's
requirements.
Here's what you can do.
The Nearpost supports Transact CEO Ivan Slavich.
I believe it's time for all in the Canberra business and football community to support the drive,
and the vision, of Ivan Slavich.
The Canberra Times and ABC's Tim Gavel has written an article about football in this Saturday's
Canberra Times.
The 500th person to sign up for the Canberra A-League team is Clare D'Arcy. Interestingly, to me,
Clare is a mum who lists her club as Players FC. Clare has daughters who play the game. As FIFA
President Sepp Blatter has said, "the future of football is female."
And of course a Canberra A-League team would benefit, I believe, the Canberra Women's National
League team.
and Ivan Slavich wants your support at the game at Canberra Stadium tomorrow..read today's Canberra
Times article below...and six Young Rockets have been asked to train with Mariners today.
Central Coast Mariners goalkeeper Danny Vukovic may be banned from the Olympics but he will be
included in the squad to play the Newcastle Jets in a pre-season game at CanberraStadium tomorrow.
How badly do Canberrans want an A-League team?
We could never have a team in Canberra, not even a bid. So everyone has always said or so it seems.
Well here's our chance.
And wake up Canberra. We've got a bid, and I believe we're flying financially. But money will not
be enough.
My favourite Canberra Times journo Merryn Sherwood had the scoop on the movements of Carl Valeri.
Read on in case you missed it.
Carl off to Serie A? Prefer he went to Celtic but Serie A would be a great move for him.
SOCCER
By Merryn Sherwood
Canberra's Carl Valeri has at least four Serie A Italian soccer clubs interested in signing him for
next season, but the 5million euro transferprice that his Serie B club Grosseto is demanding is
proving an obstacle.
Okay I'm only joking and that's the problem.
Queensland announced a 5 games in 5 years deal yesterday. Adelaide are complaining that their city
is missing out.(see below)
But what about Canberra with a heap of Asian Cup Qualifiers coming our way surely Canberra could
bid for a game every two or four years.
The Weekender is 450-700 words every Saturday on Australian and/or Canberra Football in it's
broadest sense. Anyone can write the article. Feel free to contact me with a suggestion.
This week I look at Australia's move into Asia and particularly to assess the impact on
Canberra.
And I'm off to the Canberra 20/20 Summit today.
Canberra Times Story here Sign-ups begin, find out where you can sign up in an earlier post.
But another investor? Slowly slowly...or maybe not so slow!
Canberra City off the bottom, Queanbeyan FC continue good form, Russ Gibb who supplied all the info
for this report is the same Russ Gibb's you can find on FourFourTwo website....and more!
Canberra City thumped ANU FC 5-0 and moved off the bottom of the table with their first win of the
season.
CanberraALeague:
Good afternoon foundation members,
Canberra Times will be taking a photo of all foundation members who sign up at Service One Members
Banking (Bailey's Corner, Canberra City) on Thursday 17 July @ 9am - it would be great to see you
there! The more the merrier and obviously the more successful it will appear to the public.
So far 54 phone calls and 54 people hav signed up for the 10 plus 1 Canberra A-League bid Official
Ambassador program!
Wow! Thanks for your outstanding support, you have encouraged me to keep going and get to my target
of 90 Ambassadors before Saturday. It is really encouraging to see so many so willing to help
garner the grassroots support for a Canberra team.
