Jogaram pelas eliminatórias da Copa da Ásia 2011, na cidade de Muscat-QAT, no Sultan Qaboos
Sports Complex, para um público de 12.000 pessoas, as seleções de Omã (79º no ranking da FIFA)
e a seleção da Austrália (24º no ranking da FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções jogaram:
08-07-2007 - Austrália 1x1 Omã (Copa da Ásia)
14-10-2009 - Austrália 1x0 Omã (Eliminatórias Copa da Ásia)
O quarteto de arbitragem foi assim definido:
Árbitro: SUN BAOJIE (CHINA P.
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Jogaram no MI Dinh Stadium, na cidade de Hanoi, pelas eliminatórias da Copa da Ásia, as
seleções do Vietnã (134º no ranking da FIFA) e a seleção da Síria (95º no ranking da FIFA),
para um público de 30.000 pessoas.
Esse foi o primeiro jogo, entre as 2 seleções.
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O segundo jogo da repescagem, Oceania/Ásia, foi realizada em Auckland, na Nova Zelândia, entre a
seleção da Nova Zelândia (83º no ranking da FIFA) e a seleção do Bahrain (61º no ranking da
FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções jogaram:
03-10-1979 - Bahrain 0x2 Nova Zelândia (Amistoso)
08-10-1979 - Bahrain 1x2 Nova Zelândia (Amistoso)
10-10-2009 - Bahrain 0x0 Nova Zelândia (Eliminatórias Copa do Mundo)
O quarteto de arbitragem para esse jogo, foi assim definido:
- Referee: Jorge LARRIONDA (URU)
- Assistant Referee 1: Pablo FANDINO (URU)
- Assistant Referee 2: Mauricio ESPINOSA (URU)
- Fourth official: Roberto SILVERA (URU)
O único gol do jogo, foi anotado aos 45 minutos do primeiro tempo, com o camisa 14, Rory FALLON.
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Hmmm. At the start of the season this was supposed to be the blockbuster that Gold Coast would
steal from the Roar. But with only 5,400 watching and quite a few of those in Sydney colours you
would have to say Gold Coast have a long, long way to go build a fan base.
Shame really as this game was won by Jason Culina who was at his best.
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Marco Bresciano has been recalled for the Asian Cup qualifier against Oman at Sultan Qaboos Sports
Complex in Muscat on November 15. Bresciano returns to the squad after a knee injury prevented him
from the recent international friendly against the Netherlands in Sydney and the Asian Cup
qualifier against Oman in Melbourne last month.
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It was a bit of a hassle, but your roving reporter was able to slip some questions to the Oranje
delegation in Sydney. Here's some answers :-). 1. Why don't you feel it's time to look seriously at
preparing replacements for Gio and Ooijer? "I will look seriously at replacements if the players
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Oh and Gold Coast played so well too.
Foxtel has been having outages (Sydney and Brisbane and other parts of Australia) all week so I saw
little of this game and less of the Sydney v Brisbane game. However, something happened.
It was amazing to see former Roar 2nd keeper Scott Higgins letting them go through his legs and all
sorts.
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My guess is Melbourne or Sydney now. Melbourne have been able to bar far too many good players. How
do they get them all within the cap. Well of course they don't. Special deals to allow Muscat to be
paid outside the cap because he is really a or the coach - or neither. $1m transfer deals. And wow
2 great Asian players.
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Check out the A-League site naming Mark Bridges (Sydney) as Michael Bridges (Newcastle).
This result showed how badly the Roar played last week - made the Mariners look good.
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SO Perth Glory are about a day away from taking on Fowler's Fury. With the jam-packed nature of the
league, it's a game they really need to win - just to keep them up there.
FP knows it's very premature, but just to prove a point this is what the first week of the finals
would look like if the regular season had already ended.
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An interesting article in the Courier Mail on Monday. The story was that some Roar directors
regretted not accepting FFA help at the beginning of the season. The reason given for the regret
was that the FFA would have been able to control Frank Farina via a director of football - and
stopped poor player behaviour.
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Anfield Talk 11 October @ 03:06 PM EST
Rafael Benitez will be furious after Dirk Kuyt came off injured at half-time in Saturday's friendly
for Holland against Australia.
Liverpool were already less than happy that Kuyt and Ryan Babel had to play the match in Sydney in
what was a commercially-driven deal done by the Holland FA.
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Just got back from rainy Sydney...home again in...eh....rainy Byron Bay :-). Carlos and myself at a
certain point discussed which Oranje game we last watched live (not together of course)... Mine was
in 2000 (the lost semis against Italy aarrrghhh....) and Carlos' last was in the 90s I believe....
It was
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Catching a plane soon lads... I'm off to Sydney!! Why you ask? HAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA...... OLEEE OLLEE
OLEE OLEE OLEEEEEEEE..... AANVALLEN!!!!! I won't be posting here till well after the match... So
you guys take over from me and comment like Oranje Girls, ok? I hope to be able to bring in some
cool pics and
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How can you not love these guys? That run in the '06 World Cup was a blast.
And led by awesome-dude Tim Cahill the team is going to help out the earthquake and tsunami victims
in Samoa and Indonesia.
Not just a neat goal celebration.
Football Federation Australia (FFA) said it will donate one dollar for every fan who
attends the Socceroos' matches against the Netherlands in Sydney on Saturday and against Oman in
Melbourne next week.
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A late goal from Moore heading across to Seri-goal Van Dijk saved this game.
I think Sydney were very lucky. Their defensive mid-field used the same studs-up neutraliser that
got a Newcastle player sent off last week. That, that red card was turned over on appeal probably
saved Sydney today from losing Gan and Byon on the field.
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Eh? What's this?!?
The messages coming out of College Street, via Mike Cockerill's keyboard, are increasingly
confusing. Now there
is to be a second Sydney franchise, only a week after it appeared the
game was up?
The lack of detail concerning the apparently successful bid is disquieting.
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Bragging rights to GC. Be interesting to see crowd numbers. Most seemed to be Sydney fans.
Smeltz is on fire with 2 goals.
How do they do it for the money?
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Qantas Socceroos vs Netherlands For all of you who want to book tickets and come to Sydney. I'm
going myself. More than happy to organize something funky and orange if there's more of you... With
our place in the 2010 FIFA World Cup locked in, the Qantas Socceroos continue their build up
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Same Perth unfortunately. Outplayed Wellington and then lost to the home teams only shot in target
in the second half.
Sydney are now playing like Brisbane. Two speedsters down the wings in Deming and Brosque. Great
one two from Bridge to Brosque's head, then back to Bridge to finish off.
Wellington has a way bigger fan base than Gold Coast with 10,000 turning up in 7 degrees and rain v
Gold Coast's perfect football watching weather.
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Gold Coast stomped their rich footprint all over the A-League with a 5-0 home win, Wellington beat
Perth in front of a healthy 10,000 crowd, Melbourne came back from 3-1 to draw 3-3 with Brisbane
and the F3 Derby saw the Jets draw 1-1 with the Mariners.
Sydney had a tough test against a fit, tactically sound Adelaide United.
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Robbie Fowler was only ever God to a small group of Scousers based in their native Liverpool.
Did Everton fans think he was God?
Did Man United fans?
Did Wigan, Sunderland, Torquay, Burton Albion, or Newport County?
Not to mention every fan from Sydney to Sao Paolo, Dortmund to Dubai.
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The A-League is all about entertainment. Miron said this all through his Roar tenure.
Miron and Frank embraced after the game last night. Miron would have known exactly the pressures
the game would have put on the Roar coach.
Miron has proved himself to have bouncebackability. He has looked at the confinements and
limitations of the A-League rules and acquired the best team in the competition - by a wide margin.
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It was the right result. Adelaide dominated the first half. Clearly Adelaide missed out on a
straight forward penalty in the first 2 minutes as Jacob Burns had his first touch on an Adelaide
leg entering the penalty box from the right. Later, justice was made when Chris Coyne pushed/pulled
down Robbie Cornthwaite for a linesperson's decision.
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Many of you guys who ardently follow the Coca Cola Football League Championship, might have taken
in the 08-09 Texaco Fantasy Football Competition last season ( eventually won by Wolves fan Steven
Brittle). This year, the competition is back again, bigger and better. The winner of the
competition gets a free £500 fuel voucher ( courtesy [.
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The fall out from the Kop Comes to Asia continues but I've lost interest now. It's good that there
is a debate going on about England fan waving Singaporeans mocking the efforts of their own lads
but to put it into a wider context...
...about 20 years agon I went to see Australia play Hajduk Split at the Parramatta Stadium in
Sydney.
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WITH only a week till the start of the new season, two fresh clubs to cast an eye over, a stack of
returning Roos, a European at the helm in Sydney, God looking down from up north, Bleiberg and
Palmer cranking up the rhetoric, ABC Grandstand finally on board (if only in Melbourne, for now),
the Socceroos qualified for South Africa, the World Cup less than a year away, a World Cup bid book
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Sound the trumpets: the fifth instalment of the A-League is little more than a week away. And the
question must be asked: would you know it?
One would have expected, given the Socceroos' recent qualification for the World Cup and
Australia's own bid for the event, that the new league season would have been marketed
aggressively.
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I was expecting people to sign-up for the new Australian football fanzine Half-Time Heroes from
Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and co given the writers we have and their existing readers but I guess I
hadn't thought too much about the overseas readers.
Bangkok, Taiwan, and London fans appeared in the first fifty subscribers.
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Well unique at least, and bring colour and atmosphere wherever they go.
31,000 turned up to see Celtic trounce the Brisbane Roar 3-0 today at Suncorp. And a Kiwi Chris
Killen got two for the Celts.
And with Fulham and Wolves pulling in around 20,000 and 11,000 this weekend across the wide brown
land clearly the Scottish Champions have slightly more fan power than the English Premier League
clubs; no surprise there.
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We preview Wellington and Sydney FC
Russ Gibbs, Terry Henry, Lucy Zelic and myself discuss all the weeks Aussie football news and
issues.
National Show Download
Local show Download
And locally Peter Funnell and Russ go through all the local news and "Fireside with Peter," hears
from local lad Lukas Cole on his trials in England don't miss that.
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After I blogged on what why Bryan Soane sudden departure from Balestier Khalsa had only side of the
story covered , this morning's TODAY had seems to reveal the other side of the story.
(Picture) Soane and agent gave their side of story
Finally, we got the other side of the story after the news broke out weeks ago that the young
Aussie striker had quit and went back to Sydney.
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Monday:
I don't want the job, I'm still bitter about my experience at Sydney.
Tuesday:
Can't wait to get started.
Someone loves you in football land Branko, and not just Les Murray,
There are only 10 A-League jobs in the country and only one position up for grabs this year so far,
and yer man the blast from the past.
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KICKETTE 16 June @ 06:58 AM EST
West Ham's Lucas Neill, his facial hair, wife Lindsey and the twins Toby and Paige take a stroll on
the Woolloomooloo Wharf in Sydney. Image via Pacific Coast News
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