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Stephen Ireland wouldn't dare forget to bring his snakeskin pants to Ronaldinho's next pyjama
party...would he?
If you think this is good, just wait.
It gets better.
Saturday
- We offered our steamiest congrats to Barcelona's Victor Valdes, who received the Catalan
Athlete of the year award.
The FFA and Adelaide United held their breadth at the Asian Casino last night...and won.
United have won direct entry into the Asian Champions League - meaning Australia now has three
teams in the group stages for the first time.
More exciting than watching Lou Sticca's fundraiser in Melbourne?
Mike Cockerill got his FFA Award this week, and fair play to him. You do the time, 30 years - you
get an award.
I'm no fan of Mike's football analysis, he knows that - his tactical and player movements on and
around the park leave a lot to be desired for this football fan. I grew up in the UK!
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.
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.
Well what other conclusion could you make!
Football is unquestionably Australia's team participation sport, boasting higher
participation than the three other football codes combined
This is the official figures in the FFA's Strategic Plan.
With the focus back on the linking of the football community we can really push on to improve the
game across the community.
Up to $40 per hour, (that's more than Capital Football), 100 hours per year, here's a chance to get
involved at football at a grassroots level.
My local club are after a Technical Football Facilitator - why not forward to anyone who may be
interested. Do them a favour!
Great support from.
Well I must say I was a little surprised when Ben Buckley called last night to offer me the job of
Socceroos' Head Coach, starting immediately.
Of course I know when the time for my national duty has come, and I accepted. But not before I had
a long talk with Buckley in which I said I would be making a number of changes, some of them which
will shock some people and many fans, and he guaranteed that I would have complete freedom and
control over the roster.
Phil Rothchild has/is up there with one of the least professional sports journalists in Australia -
lots of biased assessments of football over the years so nearly fell out of my chair at this
one.
Thing is many of these so-called journo's could have talked positively about football down the
years, him, FitzSimons, Birmingham, Bolt, Wilson and the rest but for some reason they choose not
to - small minds I guess - but here is our Phil doing his bit to spruik the game when clearly there
is no need to.
So why do I know so much about football?
Grew up in Burton-on Trent, England. We played the beautiful game in Burton now the centre of
English Football excellence.
The beautiful game we learnt and played?
You know where you turned up in cars, waited for 2 minutes before the game - ran out, scored late
on.
Okay after all the anti-Dutch experts have lined up to bag the guy....dare I suggest he did his
job! And did it pretty well.
I know his teams were pretty poor in the World Cup - only finishing around 16 or so, hey that's
around the same World ranking as the big Socceroos - and I know it was grim to watch at times.
OK so there was a lot of action in the first 30 minutes or so. But by the 2nd half the game had
flatlined. Everyone was exhausted including the referee.
Someone wrote of one of my blogs, probably in season 1, 'don't read this if your name is Ben
Williams.' Now I can see a bit more of what Williams is trying to achieve as a ref.
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.
FFA came under a lot of fire over the last couple of years as they put all their attention and
resources into the World Cup Bid, at the expense of a still fragile national league sitting in an
over-subscribed professional sporting arena.
Now it seems things are improving.
We had the season changes, and like the AFL and NRL, some key planning has gone into making noise
at the right times.
FFA came under a lot of fire over the last couple of years as they put all their attention and
resources into the World Cup Bid, at the expense of a still fragile national league sitting in an
over-subscribed professional sporting arena.
Now it seems things are improving.
We had the season changes, and like the AFL and NRL, some key planning has gone into making noise
at the right times.
Building the game is not about quality. It is about capturing the imagination of the live sport
watching public. The crowd chooses the marquee game, not FFA, or Fox.
FFA was surprised in season one about the rivalry that Brisbane people felt about Sydney FC. The
opener and one of the best crowds for the new league was 20,000 against the doomed Auckland
Knights.
(Summary is not available.)
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.
Hi everybody,
Welcome to today's blog. Did you all have a decent weekend?
FP was out on the track for the final day of the races in town. It seemed like a ridiculously
indulgent day full of booze, women and more booze. Hopefully your weekend was just as fun.
So Perth Glory lost 1-0 on the weekend to Central Coast Mariners with a former Glory boy scoring
the goal.
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.
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.
http://youtu.be/kVo4UiEmet0
Looks good to me - but then I don't slag try to belittle the game the way the paranoid "sports"
"journalists" seem to need to do.
Anyway Roy Masters, Peter FitzSimons, Rebecca Wilson, John Birmingham, Patrick Smith and tedious
others (notice how old and anglo these professional critics of sport and football are - true blue -
or just a co-incidence?
Own Goal
By Quentin McDermott and Producer Louise Negline
Updated September 8, 2011 15:43:00
"Own Goal", presented by Kerry O'Brien, goes to air on Monday 12th September at 8.30pm on ABC1. It
is replayed on Tuesday 13th September at 11.35pm. It can also be seen on ABC News 24 each Saturday
at 8.
"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.
"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.
With the A-League teetering along last year football was heading back to the future.
Despite the move into Asia, a successful Asia Cup campaign, the rise of the Matildas and the
increasing number of Young Guns pushing into the Socceroos and starring in the A-League moving to
Europe and Asia, football still lacked any sense of security or money for our A-League clubs to
survive, never mind to move ahead.
Got this email overnight from England - loved it, so blogged it!
Eamonn
Without doubt the greatest week in the short history of the A-League.
Not the greatest day: that was when the A-League kicked off but certainly the greatest marquee
since Dwight Yorke.
I am currently living in the UK (missing Australia like you wouldn't believe) and I was driving in
my car listening to the radio coverage of Arsenal/ Udinese when they cut to Blackburn Rovers who
had just scored in the Carling Cup "Brett Emerton.
Michael Lynch - a man who's family is from the far end of the Curragh (Irish Racecourse) we're just
a bit closer, but further away. Got it?
Lynchy is a much respected Aussie footy writer - but on his player development focus written in the
Age I reckon he has a couple of points wrong or at least is unaware of what is coming.
Canberra Club members may have an opportunity to assist Australian player development. If history
in the local clubland is anything to go by, there is no guarantee they'll do it -at least not
without a fight!
Along time ago I was good enough to take on Mark Viduka and Craig Moore in football.
The standout for the night (19 July at Griffith Uni Southbank) was the brilliant performance of
Roar CEO Eugenie Buckley. Eugenie's appointment is more evidence, if more is required, that the
A-League should be centrally run. The FFA has found for its staff, then nurtured, and now provided
to run a club, a highly skilled professional, who understands the game, its fans and the mechanics
of a sporting club.
Bernie Mandic has played us all, the whole country.
Perhaps he only had the QPR offer and every Agent needs some leverage. Run to Australia and put in
some hard yards.
Then spruik it across the Aussie media and bingo.
Only shit!
They might pony up the money and now we're in the poo Harry - and besides we've had offers from
Europe or the Middle East.
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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Did I detect a touch of schadenfreude (call it pretend sympathy) for Ben Buckley facing up to what
appeared to be mainly Sydney FC fans?
Ben Buckley did well, gaining recognition from the audience that they were being tough on him. They
thought he deserved it.
However. On reflection, I think he would have expected the reception, but didn't deserve it.
If Australia wants to win a World Cup then the style of play and individual performances at the U17
and U20 World Cups are always a good guide to how well or otherwise a national team might perform
in coming years and certainly to their style.
Australia has shouted long and loud about how we are going to change, indeed are changing our style
of play, but after todays performance the Kaz Patafta inspired U17 team of 2005 under Ange
Postecoglou was no worse than this performance.
If Australia wants to win a World Cup then the style of play and individual performances at the U17
and U20 World Cups are always a good guide to how well or otherwise a national team might perform
in coming years and certainly to their style.
Australia has shouted long and loud about how we are going to change, indeed are changing our style
of play, but after todays performance the Kaz Patafta inspired U17 team of 2005 under Ange
Postecoglou was no worse than this performance.
Kewell the answer to A-League's Marquee Question? - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
The Hyundai A-League and by extension, the Football Federation of Australia reels from one
crisis to another. If it's not declining crowd numbers, owners threatening to close stands rather
than see empty seats, franchises folding, disastrous World Cup bids (corruption or not) or even
stars entering fan forums, then it's clubs failing to take advantage of the league's generous
marquee player policy.
I love to go to the beach and build a castle, a sand castle. But despite all the oohs and aahs from
passers by I know that in the arvo someone will have come by and stamped on my creation.
Nothing permanent.
And such is football in Australia - it seems to me.
How many times have we heard Manchester United are coming, or in recent times Celtic, Juventus or
Beckham.
I love to go to the beach and build a castle, a sand castle. But despite all the oohs and aahs from
passers by I know that in the arvo someone will have come by and stamped on my creation.
Nothing permanent.
And such is football in Australia - it seems to me.
How many times have we heard Manchester United are coming, or in recent times Celtic, Juventus or
Beckham.
I am missing the A-League more this off season than any other. I watched the European Cup final
because I wanted to see something like our A-League. And there was Barcelona, with their over
privileged squad copying Brisbane. And Manchester United copying Perth Glory, with less effect.
Soccer, basketball and union have paid a high price for helping Foxtel, via access to unique
content, to become a commercially viable alternative TV source.
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.
