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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?
Les Murray on SBS's website wrote an article about the W-League coming of age this year -
presumably because he watched the Grand Final and enjoyed it. Apparently the league is full of
players with great technical skills this year!
Rubbish Les - not much has changed. The point being the standard from the top few teams has always
been pretty high and remains so.
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.
When was the last time a Canberra team got to a football final, a home final?
Not the Cosmos - remember them?
So when Canberra United walk out for their home semi this weekend Canberra sports fans will be
watching history in the making.
And while the Melbourne Victory will make a very tough opponent, United under new Czech Coach Jitka
Klimkova have lifted to a new level this season.
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.
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!
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.
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.
