The Roar's next home game is 17 Oct against Adelaide. This is 2 days after the Socceroos play Qatar at Lang Park (if that game goes ahead - International court decision due just before it). A day or two later Adelaide have to go to Uzbekistan for the Asian Champions semi.

Adelaide want the date changed. Click to continue reading...

Canberra United. It feels good, doesn't it, to have a team in Canberra finally.

Ivan Slavich is on one of the supporters family buses to Sydney to show support for a Canberra A-League team. Why not get your club to have your own football singing bus. I'm sure there'll be a Tuggeranong United bus. Click to continue reading...

The AIS farewelled Sydney FC bound Sam Munro today. You can hear Sam on the Nearpost tonight.

And Jan Versleijen, AIS Coach, outlines his plans for the future of the football programme at the AIS.

As the players are snapped up by the A-League Youth teams the current Under 20 squad becomes a camp based programme similar to European national youth sides. Click to continue reading...

Under 20 Coach Young Socceroo Jan Versleijen talks AIS, Youth Coaching and the qualities of the Aussies on Nearpost Radio tomorrow.
Australian Football Weekly Editor David Hall joins us to preview the new weekly magazine out Thursday.

Locally we hear from Scott Conlon preview the Grand Finals and catch up with the A-League bid and that bus trip to Sydney. Click to continue reading...

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. Click to continue reading...

And then there were 10.

Canberra, Wollongong and Two bids, one team, from Melbourne. So two from three. With the strength of the Canberra bid already, I'd be backing the Capital to win the race for the next spot.

Have you seen Win Stadium:)

In further great news the FFA are talking about 14 teams which of course leaves space for the second Sydney and Melbourne team. Click to continue reading...

Roar radio promotion has switched to highlight former Scotland international Charlie Miller. For good reason, so far he is a revelation. He brings the same level of class to the A-League that Sydney fans saw in Dwight Yorke.

He always looks like he could score. Click to continue reading...

FFA have invested heavily in a referee improvement program this year. And so far it is likely that they will be disappointed. In this game 10 cards were handed out, including 2 yellow and a red for one incident. 3 yellows for CCM for 23 fouls and 6 yellows for Sydney for 14 fouls - not much between those that got cards and those that didn't. Click to continue reading...

Newcastle 1 v CCM 1 and Sydney 0 v Melbourne 0
Highlights are debuts of young players and overseas signings not finding their feet. Overall, looks good. Both matches had crowds of around 16,000. Which is pretty good given the Olympics is on. 
The highlight has been Kevin Muscat getting away with an after the ball chop to the back of 17 year old Chris Payne - right in the penalty box. Click to continue reading...

Graeme MacKinnon, Foundation Member 412, is a "mad Mariners supporter" but he's laid out his hard-earned cash to show his support for a team from Australia's Capital.

Thanks for your support Graeme hope the Mariners win the opener against the Jets.

Interesting the link between the Mariners and A-League in Canberra. Click to continue reading...

Back from the Big Smoke. Sydney was busy, smoggy, cold-ish and like any city :-). Been there, done that. Back to the pitch :-). Lots of wonderful news indeed. And not so wonderful... Ruud retiring as international is a bit of a shock. He definitely was the beesknees during the EC, but Van Click to continue reading...

Picture from C.Times

Canberra's Caitlin Munoz, left, and Lydia Williams, third from right, joined Heather Garrock, Sarah Walsh, Karla Reuter, Tanya Oxtoby, Cheryl Salisbury, Melissa Barbieri, Jenna Tristram, Di Alagich and Victoria Balomenos at the launch of the W-League in Sydney. Picture: BONITA MERSIADES

Green's great but where's the white hoops said the Celtic fan. Click to continue reading...

When I read the venues scheduled for the next phase of World Cup qualifying, I thought fantastic, two games in Sydney against Uzbekistan and Bahrain. I was a bit disappointed that the biggest fixture, the game against Japan, will be in Melbourne. Still, 100,000 packed into the MCG will be a sight to behold. Click to continue reading...

The U.S. reached the medal round of Olympic soccer at the 2000 Games in Sydney, though the squad finished fourth. That left hunger for more, but the next team failed to qualify for the Olympics in Greece, falling to archrival Mexico. Click to continue reading...

Hmmm. Just watched the highlights of the Sydney v Roar match (SBS TV Sunday afternoon - free TV). I know people don't put much stake in this cup, but it is important for clubs selling their season tickets.

The Roar outplayed Sydney. As Ed said, we are used to smash and grab after dominating. Click to continue reading...

17 year old Chris Payne proved the difference between two sides weakened by injury and suspension. Tiattto and Kruse both missed the trip.

If Payne continues in this vain, scoring one and forcing saves with several other shots - including an over-head kick - Sydney will not need John Aloisi. Click to continue reading...

Scott Wolf and I both wanted LD quotes, but we had to wait until Donovan finished getting his massage. We were escorted down by the locker room. As we waited, Clint Mathis passed by from the equipment room with a Galaxy game jersey flung over his shoulder.
"Clint, is that an official Galaxy jersey you've got there? Click to continue reading...

So 70,000 watched the Socceroos v China last week and only 48,000 filed in to the same stadium on Saturday, some on free tickets, to watch the Wallabies take on World Cup finalists France.

Interesting times. But does it have any benefits to the Canberra A-League bid? Yes it does, and here's three Canberra anecdotes to start you thinking. Click to continue reading...

Home Alone Our boys are 16 and 17, so we left them "Home Alone" last weekend whilst Veronica and I traveled to Sydney. We gave them the "No Corey Parties" speech and told them if the house ended up on TV, "RUN". We arrived home and the house was in one piece, the floors were filthy and [...] Click to continue reading...

Capital Football presented their proposal for a women's A-League team to the FFA in Sydney yesterday.


With the FFA favouring an A-League based approach to the new women's league Canberra's entry is not certain.

Capital Football presented a plan showing how and why a Canberra team should be included. Click to continue reading...

Australia 0 - China 1 Last night in Sydney the Socceroos lost 1-0 to China in the final match of round 3. Although we lost it had no bearing on our progress to round 4 of WC qualifying. Meeting up with the AOT and GGA boys and girls was the highlight for me. We met at the [...] Click to continue reading...

Heather Garriock just back from the Peace Cup in Korea is looking forward to the start of the National Women's League as well as a hectic month with the Matildas in July.

" The National League is the number one priority for me. I really want to part of the very first National League. It's important all the big players play and maybe I'll look at playing professional again overseas come next year. Click to continue reading...

Matildas are heading back to China to take on Argentina in just 12 days time. Then its home to play New Zealand in Sydney, before flying to Japan for another game against the talented Japanese national side.

With the National League expected to start in October the stars of Australian football have plenty of games to keep them busy Click to continue reading...

There are mysteries in the world that can never be explained from the Bermuda Triangle to the unexplained success of Celine Dion but this latest piece of news just leaves me scratching my head....with a chainsaw! Socceroos captain Harry Kewell is set to sign for Italian Serie A side AS Roma. Kewell, in Sydney for Australia's World [. Click to continue reading...

From the Gunghalin Football Club website.

Twenty very lucky U10/U11 Gungahlin United Football Club junior players have been selected to participate in the On Ground Entertainment Small-Sided Games display prior to the Qantas Socceroos v China World Cup Qualifying Match on 22 June 2008 at ANZ Stadium in Sydney.

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I Love being an Australian Football Fan It has been a big few weeks for Australian National Football Teams. I have focussed on the Socceroos and their route to round 4 of Asian Qualifying. There is a game this weekend against China in Sydney, and I will be there. Some of you may remember this as [... Click to continue reading...

It's not exactly been the start Juninho-led Sydney FC had anticipated with under-fire coach Branko Culina wasting little opportunity to continue his war of words with the Sydney media after the 2005/06 champions finally recorded their first win under his charge.

It took a classic backs to the wall away effort, a goal from Brazilian substitute Patrick with his first touch and an outstanding display in central defence from Socceroos defender Mark Milligan to snatch a 1-0 victory in Brisbane over the unfortunate Queensland Roar. Click to continue reading...