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Geelong Rangers topped the ladder in the Community Cup (Click on pictures below to enlarge them) Geelong Rangers and…
(Click on photos below to enlarge them) After Geelong Rangers fielded some of its promising youngsters but still ran up…
Geelong Community Cup 2025 - Matchday 4 Steven Ginoski Rangers flex their muscle against Bell Park Bell Park 0-4…
Both games drawn in Wednesday’s Geelong Community Cup (click on photos below to enlarge them) Barwon got its first…
Geelong tops Geelong Community Cup after two rounds (Click on the pics below to enlarge them) The second round of…
Geelong Community Cup 2025 (Click on pictures below to enlarge them) Geelong’s Community Cup, the long running…
A one-all draw against Corio secured the last place in this year’s Community Cup finals at Geelong Rangers’ Myers…
Geelong Rangers topped Group A of the Geelong Community Cup after a seven-one thrashing of Surfcoast, while Bell Park…
There were big wins for host club, Geelong Rangers, and cup holder Bell Park in the Geelong Community Cup on Sunday…
Corio is through to the finals of this season’s Geelong Community Cup after a comfortable three-nil win over a tiring…
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Corio overcame Geelong by two goals to one in a high quality first match for both clubs in the Geelong Community Cup at Myers Reserve on Sunday…
Bell Park’s defence of its Geelong Community Shield is in tatters after an opening night four-nil defeat by host club…
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(Click or double click on the images below to enlarge them) Bell Park finished the final of the Morris Finance Cup at its home ground with only nine…
Host club, Bell Park, secured its place in the Morris Finance Cup final with a four-one win over a plucky Lara team on…
(Click on pics below to enlarge) Corio reached the final of the Morris Finance Cup at Bell Park Sports Club on Friday…
A one-all draw between host club Bell Park and Surfcoast at Batesford on Sunday night was enough to ensure that Park…
Doug Miller of Surfside Waves (right, in blue) tries to get past Michael Boyar of Geelong. Bell Park and Geelong have…
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Mijo Marinovic outjumps Andrew Maclean in the Rangers's defence. Marinovic hat-trick highlights Bell Park victory Mijo Marinovic made a blistering…
This week Australians and others around the world will remember the carnage that was the two world wars of the 20th…
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Geelong won the 2015 Diversity Cup after a penalty shoot out against Corio at Hume Reserve on Sunday night. At the end of normal time the teams were…
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Corio and Geelong will contest the final of the Diversity Cup on Sunday 22 February after Geelong survived a tense battle with North Geelong’s Youth…
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In what was expected to be one of the games of the tournament, favourite Geelong and Corio shared the points in a three-all draw at Hume Reserve on…
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Geelong’s Diversity Cup, the local pre-season tournament is in full swing at Hume Reserve, Thompson Road, North Geelong on Friday and Sunday…
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(This article originally appeared on The Footy Almanac) When Jock Stein of Celtic, the first British manager to take a team to win what was then the…
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Norman Hobson, 1935–5 December 2014 Norm Hobson was one of Australia’s best goalkeepers in the 1950s and 1960s. He arrived from England where he had…
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Melbourne Victory 3 Adelaide United 2 There are very seldom dull Victory-United derbies, the one earlier this year at Adelaide Oval, being the…
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Castlemaine Goldfields Football Club celebrated its fortieth birthday with a full house of past and present players and supporters at New Northern on…
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Melbourne City 1 Sydney FC 3 The new Melbourne City was a bit like the old Melbourne Heart as it went down to Sydney FC at Morshead Park in Ballarat…
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(Note: Interim revised version. A conference paper based on this article was given to the conference of the International Society for the History of…
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The death of Alfredo di Stefano at the age of 88 has robbed us of one of the greatest players the world of football has ever seen. Though a modern…
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Melbourne Victory 2 Guangzhou Evergrande 0 In what must be one of the sweetest victories of his fledgling coaching career, Kevin Muscat masterminded…
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Melbourne Heart 2 Western Sydney Wanderers 3 Melbourne Heart could not give skipper Harry Kewell a winning end to his career after going down by…
Melbourne Victory 1 Sydney FC 1 Melbourne Victory and Sydney FC cancelled each other out in a one-all draw at AAMI Park…
Harry Kewell is bringing down the curtain on a stellar career at the end of the current A-League season. It is a pity…
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Melbourne Heart 1 Central Coast Mariners 2 Melbourne Heart threw away a chance to close the gap on the teams above them when they conceded two second…
Melbourne Victory 1 Yokohama Marinos 0 Melbourne Victory took an early lead and withstood a barrage from Yokohama…
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In its first home game of the 2014 Asian Champions League, Melbourne Victory squeezed out a hard-fought draw with Jeonbuk Motors from South Korea at…
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Melbourne Heart continued its surge towards the finals by sweeping aside Melbourne Victory in the third derby of the season by four goals to nil…
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(Click on images below to enlarge them) North Geelong won the Geelong Diversity Cup on penalty kicks after a one-all draw with Corio at Elcho Park on…
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Melbourne Heart 1 Brisbane Roar 0 Melbourne Heart’s winning sequence continued with a single goal victory over league leader Brisbane Roar at AAMI…
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Geelong and Geelong Rangers gain play-off spots The final play-off spots in the Geelong Diversity Cup were settled on Sunday night as Geelong swept…
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Melbourne Victory 4 Adelaide United 3 Melbourne Victory conjured a narrow win over Adelaide United by four goals to three on Saturday night but the…
North and Corio continue their winning ways North Geelong and Corio completed their preliminary round matches with wins…
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Corio makes sure of Grand Final place Corio made sure that this year’s Grand Final in the Geelong Diversity Cup will be a replay of last year’s match…
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Melbourne Victory 2 Muangthong United 1 Melbourne Victory qualified for the group stage of the 2014 Asian Champions League with a hard-fought two-one…
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North Geelong’s three-two win over Geelong was more clear-cut than the scoreline suggests in the Geelong Diversity Cup at Elcho Park on Friday night…
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Melbourne Victory and Muangthong United from Thailand cleared the decks for their battle in the Asian Champions League qualifier in Geelong on…
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North Geelong celebrated its selection for the Victorian Premier League with a three-nil win over Bell Park in the Diversity Cup at Elcho Park on…
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Geelong and Bell Park came out on top against Geelong Rangers and Lara respectively at North Geelong’s Elcho Park to complete round one of matches in…
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Football fandom, like sporting performance in general, involves a delicate balance. When you are coaching youngsters to play the game, you want them…
Leo Baumgartner (centre) heading. His arrival in Australia in 1958 to play for Prague was the catalyst for the…
HayCoverArt1 Coming full circle: Betting scandals then and now Betting scandals and corruption in sport are not new…
(A shorter version was originally published in Australian Soccer Weekly, c. 1 July 1993. The article also draws on a…
NFL or EPL or keeping their eye on the ball at home? The Australian Football League is sending a deputation to the…
Former Ayr United player and Australian visitor retires Quite a surprise at the amount of media coverage of the…
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Does the punishment fit the crime?: Sanctions in Association football Uruguayan national team and Liverpool striker Luis Suarez is in the news…
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Three years in the making the first visit by Liverpool to Australia was launched at a ceremony at the MCG yesterday. As part of its immediate…
George Jolevski (This was my last Blast from the Past column for Goal Weekly and it will appear in the Goal Weekly…
Melbourne Victory 2 Perth Glory 1 (after extra time) After being on the back-foot for much of the ninety minutes…
Australia 2 Oman 2 Australia squeaked out of its home game against Oman with a two-all draw after going behind in the…
Melbourne Heart 1 Western Sydney Wanderers 3 Western Sydney Wanderers are within touching distance of the A-League…
Melbourne Victory 5 Newcastle Jets 0 Melbourne Victory bounced back dramatically from last week’s away loss to the…
Melbourne Heart 3 Sydney 1 Melbourne Heart entertained its largest home crowd for a league match of 13,752 (apart from…
Melbourne Victory 1 Western Sydney Wanderers 2 Western Sydney Wanderers made their first appearance in Melbourne in the…
Corio and North Geelong lead in Geelong pre-season Cup Corio and North Geelong are locked on 8 points after each has…
Melbourne Heart 2 Perth Glory 0 Melbourne Heart overcame Perth Glory by two goals to nil at AAMI Park on Saturday…
Melbourne Victory 2 Melbourne Heart 1 Melbourne Victory won the deciding local derby for the 2012-13 season against…
Diversity Cup kicks-off in Geelong North Geelong and Corio kicked off the pre-season Diversity Cup at Myers Reserve in…
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Melbourne Victory put Sydney to the sword Melbourne Victory moved into second place on the A-League ladder with a three-one win over Sydney FC, which…
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Melbourne Victory 1 Sydney FC 3 Sydney FC Women reversed the result of yesterday’s A-League game when they overcame Melbourne Victory by three goals…
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David Williams and Josip Tadic combine to beat Dario Vidosic of Adelaide United. Melbourne Heart 2 Adelaide United 0 Goals five minutes into each…
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Melbourne Heart 3 Brisbane Roar 2 Melbourne Heart was cruising at three-nil against Brisbane Roar at AAMI Park on Sunday afternoon, when David…
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Melbourne Heart 2 Newcastle Jets 1 Melbourne Heart got the flying start it needed to take an early lead against Newcastle Jets at AAMI Park on New…
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(This article was published on the Goal Weekly website on 1 January 2013…
Melbourne Victory 3 Newcastle Jets 2 Melbourne Victory looked to have defeated Newcastle Jets comfortably after taking…
Melbourne Heart 1 Melbourne Victory 2 The Melbourne derby produced one of the most dramatic finishes in the short…
Melbourne Victory 1 Brisbane Roar 1 Melbourne Victory could not erase the memory of the five-nil hammering in the…
(This article appeared as a Blast from the Past in Goal Weekly, 7 December 2012, p. 19.) Box Hill is one of Victoria’s…
North Geelong Warriors celebrated 45 years since the club was founded in 1967 and twenty years since their…
In a good quality game, Melbourne Victory did just enough to take all three points with a one-nil win over Perth Glory…
Melbourne Heart 3 Newcastle Jets 3 Melbourne Heart threw away a two-nil lead and eventually shared the points in a…
Melbourne Victory 2 Central Coast Mariners 2 Melbourne Victory and Central Coast Mariners drew two-all at Etihad…
Melbourne Heart 4 Brisbane Roar 1 ‘Brisbane played without heart’, said Roar coach Rado Vidosic, after his team was…
Melbourne Victory 3 Wellington Phoenix 2 Melbourne Victory kept up its winning record against Wellington Phoenix, but…
Melbourne Victory 1 Newcastle Jets 0 Melbourne Victory continued its unblemished sequence of wins over Newcastle Jets…
Richard Garcia (left) and Trent Sainsbury in action. Melbourne Heart 0 Central Coast Mariners 1 Central Coast Mariners…
Melbourne Victory 2 Adelaide United 1 The 2012-13 season of the A-League looks like it will be the most competitive…
Melbourne Heart 1 Wellington Phoenix 1 Melbourne Heart took on a Wellington Phoenix side depleted by international…
Melbourne Victory 1 Melbourne Heart 2 The keenly awaited Melbourne derby kicked-off the 2012–13 A League season at…
(This article appeared on Goal Weekly's website on 18 September 2012…
Scotland 3 Australia 1 Scotland took on Australia in a pre-world cup qualifier friendly match at Edinburgh’s Easter…
(Click and double click on the photos below to enlarge them) Mexico stun Brazil to take gold Brazil 1 Mexico 2 Mexico…
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(Click and double click on the photos below to enlarge them) Getting to Wembley on final day Final day in the football promised sunny and hot in…
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The Independent looks at Australia at the Olympics (for full page see illustration at end of article. Click and double click to enlarge.) Selective…
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Wembley Way in 2012 Wembley at last The journey which began at Hampden Park in Glasgow now reaches its end at the new Wembley stadium in London…
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The people you meet: Melissa Barbieri, Matildas' keeper Today’s match is at Old Trafford, home of the mighty Manchester United, which necessitated a…
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St James's Park, Newcastle is a magnificent venue to watch football. Olympic football tournament taking shape After two rounds of group matches in…
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The story of the game, Orianica Velasquez surrounded by US players. USA 3 Colombia 0 The defending Olympic champion made sure of its place in the…
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Spain 0 Japan 1 The 30th Olympiad football tournament had its first major upset when one of the tournament favourites, Spain, was thoroughly upstaged…
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Hampden Park in the sun as the teams line up for the opening game between the United States of America and France. United States 4 France 2 The…
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The games of the 30th Olympiad begin tomorrow when Team GB women’s team kicks off against New Zealand at the Millenium Stadium in Cardiff at 4 pm…
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Wembley Stadium where the Olympic Games men's final will be played. Olympics only just surfacing in a wave of sport It is only two days until the…
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Marcelo takes on the TeamGB defence. Team GB 0 Brazil 2 The British Olympic football team, the so-called Team GB, got a wake-up call from a very…
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Last season Motherwell finished third in the Scottish Premier League behind Celtic and Rangers and with Rangers banned from European competition the…
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Rangers fans in Sydney in July 2010. A bad week for football might do some good? The game of football has taken a battering this week though it is…
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One of the many display cases at the NFM. Grand (re)opening of the National Football Museum in England The National Football Museum, formerly located…
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Jack Reilly tries but fails to prevent Colin Stein (right) from scoring for Rangers against Victoria at Olympic Park in 1975. Source: Laurie Schwab…
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Another champion team from Spain. Real Madrid in 1960 and Ferenc Puskas celebrates a goal. Are Spain the greatest ever? It is inevitable that Spain’s…
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Happier days for Rangers in Sydney in 2010. Culture shock and football’s woes It is a severe culture shock to go from a country where the back…
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The Victorian Minister for Sport, Hugh Delahunty (right) practices his heading skills and Terry Mulder, the Minister for Transport (left) his…
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Three down after 25 minutes Melbourne Victory found out what it was like to play against one of the top teams in Europe, Olympiakos Piraeus, the…
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Testing one of the goal-line technology systems. FIFA World, April 2012, p. 13. Keep technology out of football (Earlier versions of the this article…
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at the Olympics (This article was publsihed on the Goal Weekly website at www.goalweklly.com.au on Thursday 26 April 2012. The photograph of Hakan…
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It was an excellent idea of SBS and the Johnny Warren Foundation to reopen the debate about the best players, coaches and teams to play the game in…
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(This story appeared as a Blast from the Past column in Goal Weekly on 2 March 2012, p. 19. Click on the photographs below to enlarge them. The…
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Melbourne Heart 2 Sydney FC 2 (Click and double click on photos below to enlarge them) In a classic game of two halves, Melbourne Heart scored two…
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Melbourne Victory 3 Wellington Phoenix 0 Melbourne Victory produced the kind of performance the fans had been waiting for all year with a three-nil…
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Melbourne Heart 1 Wellington Phoenix 1 (Double click on photos below to enlarge them.) In the match which could decide its finals ambitions…
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North Geelong win City of Greater Geelong Cup in a landslide (Note: click and double click on photographs below to enlarge them). North Geelong…
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Melbourne Victory 1 Newcastle Jets 3 On a night of pouring rain in Melbourne, Victory’s season was washed away by Newcastle Jets by three goals to…
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Australia 4 Saudi Arabia 2 Australia overcame a spirited Saudi Arabia by four goals to two in the final game of the first qualifying group for the…
North squeak through in final rehearsal North Geelong scored in the last minute to beat Corio by three goals to two in…
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Melbourne Heart 1 Central Coast Mariners 0 Melbourne Heart knocked off the bottom team, Gold Coast United, by a single goal last week and on Sunday…
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North squeak through in final rehearsal North Geelong scored in the last minute to beat Corio by three goals to two in a very entertaining rehearsal…
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Time for FFA to keep its nerve (This aritcle appeared on the SBS website, The World Game on 22 February 2012 and in Goal Weekly on 24 February 2012.)…
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North and Corio on track for final North Geelong and Corio will meet next Friday night at 6 pm in a dress rehearsal for the grand final of the City…
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Melbourne Heart 1 Gold Coast United 0 A late goal by substitute Eli Babalj gave Melbourne Heart a vital win in its attempt to retain its position in…
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North power away in CoGG Cup North Geelong secured a place in the 2012 City of Greater Geelong Cup final with its third win in succession in this…
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Melbourne Victory 2 Central Coast Mariners 1 Melbourne Victory recorded its first win under Jim Magilton as coach, knocking off league leader Central…
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Melbourne Heart 0 Melbourne Victory 0 Melbourne Heart and Melbourne Victory played out a scoreless draw at AAMI Park on Saturday night in front of…
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Corio beat Surfcoast two-nil and Bell Park came from behind to beat Geelong Rangers two-one in City of Greater Geelong Cup matches at Bell Park…
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North Geelong overwhelm Geelong in City of Greater Geelong Cup opener First Division club North Geelong overwhelmed local rivals Geelong by four…
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Melbourne Victory 2 Sydney FC 2 Melbourne Victory were held to two-all draw by Sydney FC in the strangest of games at AAMI Park on Australia Day…
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Melbourne Heart 1 Brisbane Roar 1 Melbourne Heart once again matched a top-ranked opponent in Brisbane Roar and thoroughly deserved the point it took…
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Melbourne Heart 0 Central Coast Mariners 1 In an act of grand larceny Central Coast Mariners stole the points with a last minute goal after Melbourne…
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Melbourne Heart 1 Perth Glory 2 Perth Glory was good value for its two-one away win over Melbourne Heart at AAMI Park on Sunday afternoon. Kristian…
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Melbourne Victory 1 Adelaide United 1 Melbourne Vicotry and Adelaide United renewed their long running rivalry for the Muscat-Kosmina Cup in addition…
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Melbourne Victory 2 Newcastle Jets 1 Melbourne Victory gave newly appointed head coach Jim Magilton a welcome present with a hard-fought two-one win…
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Melbourne Heart 1 Adelaide United 3 Melbourne Heart’s winning streak came to an abrupt halt when Adelaide United scored a three-one win at AAMI Park…
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(This article appeared in Goal Weekly on 23 December 2011, p. 19.) Charles Perkins was a pioneering figure in the recognition of the Aboriginal…
Melbourne Victory 3 Wellington Phoenix 1 Melbourne Victory finally got the result its coach and players had been…
Micky Petersen Micky Petersen was one of the best all-round talents in Australian football. He was top class Socceroo…
Melbourne Victory 1 Adelaide United 1 Melbourne Victory and Adelaide United played out a one-all draw at Etihad Stadium…
This article appeared in Goal Weekly, 9 December 2011, p. 2, and the Geelong Advertiser, 10 December 2011, p. 42 as…
Melbourne Victory 2 Los Angeles Galaxy 2 (Galaxy 4-3 on penalties) Friendly tour matches, even with a sponsor’s trophy…
(This article appeared in my Blast from the Past column in Goal Weekly, 25 November 2011, p. 19.) John Gardiner was…
Melbourne Victory 2 Perth Glory 2 Melbourne Victory got the advantage of some curious refereeing decisions but gave…
Stanley Matthews English author Jon Henderson is writing a new biography of (Sir) Stanley Matthews. He is seeking…
This article appeared in Goal Weekly on Friday,11 November 2011, p. 19. It was inspired by Vin Maskell whose website…
Melbourne Heart 3 Newcastle Jets 0 Heart went seeking its first win of the season at home to Newcastle Jets on Saturday…
Melbourne Victory 2 Brisbane Roar 2 The highly awaited clash between the runaway league leader Brisbane Roar and…
Melbourne Heart 1 Sydney FC 1 It was heartbreak of the Heart at AAMI Park on Saturday night when the home team thought…
Melbourne Victory 0 Melbourne Heart 0 The first Melbourne derby of the 2011-12 season ended in a scoreless draw. For…
Melbourne Heart 1 Perth Glory 2 Melbourne Heart’s first home game against Perth Glory ended in a disappointing two-one…
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Australia 3 Oman 0 Australia took on Oman in the first leg of back-to-back matches in qualification for the World Cup in Brazil in 2014 at ANZ…
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Melbourne Victory 0 Sydney FC 0 The long awaited clash between Victory and Sydney with the Kewell and Emerton show as the main event kicked off at…
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Leslie James Shorrock, 15 April 1921-28 September 2011: Prince of photographers was one of kind. I knew him through the game of football with which…
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Published in the Geelong Advertiser, 23 September 2011, p. 30, as 'Harry's tail has a flick.' It did not take Harry Kewell and his manager Bernie…
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Sjel (Mike) de Bruyckere. After a stellar career as player and coach at senior level de Bruyckere continued his involvement with the game, coaching…
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(Published on the Goal Weekly website, 19 August 2011. www.goalweekly.com) Last week I wrote about bending the rules in sport in general terms, but…
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Victorian members of the Young Socceroos with their medals. Left to right: Mark Silic, Robert Spasevski, Robert Stojcevski, Kevin Muscat, Kris…
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Photo: Geelong Advertiser. Tanks for the memories and the role of cheating in sports This article was published as 'Purity in sport elusive,' Geelong…
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Ray Baartz heads goalwards against Uruguay in Sydney in 1974. Source: Sid Grant, Jack Pollard’s Soccer Records. Punching above its weight: No wonder…
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Skippers in opposition. Victory's Adrian Leijer closes down Georgios Samaras of Celtic. Melbourne Victory 0 Celtic 1 Melbourne Victory lost by a…
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Georgios Samaras, Neil Lennon, Mehmet Durakovic and Grant Brebner face the media. Celtic expects tough match Celtic expects its toughest match of its…
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Tommy Burns of Celtic shields the ball against Red Star Belgrade during the World of Soccer tournament at Olympic Park, Melbourne. The referee is…
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Ben Buckley, John Brumby, Lucas Neil and James Merlino at the launch of another big game in Melbourne. Good governors of the game or dictators? The…
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A win for 'the worst team in Britain'. Jim Cassels, the birder of Arran and a good friend sent me this piece of news which I have been sending on to…
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Ben le Cornu (left) of Surfcoast tries to wrong foot Liam Nelson of Corio, watched by Steve Luczo (5). Surf Coast stuns Corio in local derby In a…
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Adam Federici watches a Dejan Stankovic Free kick fly past his post. Australia 0 Serbia 0 Australia played Serbia at Etihad Stadium on Tuesday night…
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(This was published in Goal Weekly on 23 May 2011, before United were beaten by Barcelona in the Champions League final.) It has been a good year for…
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Australia’s 1969 squad before the World Cup qualification matches. Back row, left to right: Les Bordacs, manager, Alan Marnoch, John Watkiss, Stan…
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Zoran Matic, coach for the ages Over the years Australian football has been graced by some first class players, coaches and teachers drawn from the…
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This year in Scotland the ‘Old Firm’, Celtic and Rangers, will meet seven times in the 2010–11 season. Somewhere along the line the notion has arisen…
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Matthew Foschin takes the ball on his chest, surrounded by team-mates and opponents. Melbourne Victory 2 Tianjin Teda 1 Melbourne Victory gained its…
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Cheryl Salisbury (right) in action for the Matildas in the third-place match of the Asian Football Confederation Women’s Asian Cup in Vietnam on 8…
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Crowd scene at Olympic Park with Fabio Cudicini in the Roma goal: Source: Laurie Schwab, The Socceroos and their Opponents. A S Roma visit to…
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Kids at play. Photo: Sydney Low / asteriskimages.com FFA’s new structure: window dressing or worse Football Federation Australia has just announced…
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Midfield action with Tom Pondeljak of Victory and Park Hyun Bem of Jeju United Melbourne Victory 1 Jeju United 2 Melbourne Victory lost its first…
City of Greater Geelong Cup 2011 Day Date Time Team G Team G Fri 4-Feb-11 8.00 Corio 3 Surfcoast 3 (Andrew Palmieri…
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Gary Burton of Bell Park and Corio's Mijo Marinovic vie for possession Corio and Surfcoast secure play-off spots in City of Greater Geelong Cup There…
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Action from the Geelong Rangers versus North Geelong game North Geelong and Geelong win City of Greater Geelong Cup matches North Geelong had a…
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Eren Enes of Corio tries to break away from David Valys (5) of Geelong Rangers North Geelong secure grand final spot, while Corio and Rangers share…
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Jasko Ikanovic (9) tries to force his way through the Rangers defence Geelong crush Rangers in CoGG Cup Geelong ran up four goals without reply…
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Gary Burton, Sam Ryan (8) and Justin Cortorillo of Bell Park combine to thwart North Geelong’s Nathan Cook (32) North Geelong struggle to subdue Bell…
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Melbourne Heart fans and their banners Melbourne Heart 2 Sydney FC 2 Melbourne Heart and Sydney FC rounded off their participation in the 2010–11…
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North Geelong on the attack against Corio North Geelong defeat Corio, Rangers and Surfcoast draw In the third round of matches in the City of greater…
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CoGG Cup matches settled by late goals Action from the Geelong Rangers versus Bell Park match in the CoGG Cup In the round robin matches in the 2011…
Melbourne Victory 2 Newcastle Jets 1 Melbourne Victory pulled off a last-minute win over a very competitive Newcastle…
(Published in the Geelong Advertiser on 22 December 2010, p. 34 as 'Round ball kicks on'. Melissa Barbieri of Melbourne…
Melbourne Victory 2 Perth Glory 0 Melbourne Victory achieved its first win in three attempts against Perth Glory in a…
Melbourne Victory Women 0 Perth Glory Women 1 Melbourne Victory and Perth Glory played a high quality W-League match as…
Melbourne Heart 1 Melbourne Victory 3 Melbourne Victory had too much firepower for Melbourne Heart and won the second…
Melbourne Heart 0 Newcastle Jets 2 Melbourne Heart set out to break a seven-game run since its last victory against…
Why did we not learn from our own history? Recriminations will continue for some time after the failed bid to bring the…
Melbourne Victory 3 Brisbane Roar 3 In a six-goal thriller at AAMI Park, Melbourne Victory fought back from two goals…
Melbourne Heart 0 Sydney FC 0 Melbourne Heart and Sydney FC drew-nil at AAMI Stadium on Saturday night. With three…
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Melbourne Heart 0 Adelaide United 2 Adelaide United got back to winning form with a two-nil away result against Melbourne Heart at AAMI Park on…
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Melbourne Victory 2 Central Coast Mariners 2 Melbourne Victory and Central Coast Mariners shared the points in a two-all draw at AAMI stadium before…
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Melbourne Heart 1 Brisbane Roar 2 Melbourne Heart lost a goal in the last minute of regulation time to concede a two-one home defeat to league leader…
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The football World Cup, which reaches its climax in Germany this weekend, is the greatest multicultural sporting extravaganza of modern times. Its…
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Melbourne Victory knocked off the defending champion, Sydney FC by three-goals to two in an A-League second round match that had everything before a…
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Geelong Advertiser, Thursday 24 August 2006, p. 39. Melbourne Victory launched its second A-League season with a flourish in Melbourne yesterday. As…
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Geelong Advertiser, Monday 2 October 2006, p. 31. Top of the table Melbourne Victory recorded its sixth win in a row against second-placed Queensland…
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Melbourne Victory left it very late but came up with another victory by a goal to nil over Perth Glory in the A-League match at Telstra Dome last…
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Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 9 December 2006, p. 100. Melbourne Victory and Sydney FC fought each other to a standstill in a high quality but…
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Melbourne Victory and the Central Coast Mariners drewthree-all in an extraordinary Round Eleven match in the A-League at Telstra Dome last night in…
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Geelong Advertiser, Friday 7 December 2006, p. 52. For a city with a population catchment of over 200,000 Geelong lacks a compact stadium to house…
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What are we to make of the Asian Cup and Australia’s performance in its first foray into the competition? The tournament was a mixture of the…
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Thanks to the good offices of the departing Scottish press officer Andy Mitchell, who helped me with information on my grandfather’s career, I was…
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Ross County threw away a great chance to win a tightly fought Scottish Second Division match at Victoria Park against Airdrie United on Saturday 1…
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The year 2005 was dominated by the qualification campaigns for the World Cup in Germany in June 2006 and by parts of two superb seasons of European…
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Melbourne Victory completed its first A-league season with a two-one win against last-place New Zealand Knights at Olympic Park on Saturday night in…
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A depleted Melbourne Victory lost its second match of the season by a goal to nil against Newcastle Jets in Round 14 of the A-League at Telstra Dome…
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Geelong Advertiser, Monday 18 September 2006, p. 36. Melbourne Victory ran out one-nil winner over the Central Coast Mariners in its Round Four match…
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A four-nil win for Melbourne Victory over New Zealand Knights marked its return to Olympic Park last night for what may be its last game at the…
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United force needed, Geelong Advertiser, Thursday 23 November 2006, p. 39. Tucked away at the end of the Football Federation of Victoria press…
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Football is and has been for more than a generation the global sport par excellence. There are more members of the Fédération Internationale de…
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When the current European football champion, Greece, comes to play the Socceroos in Melbourne in May in a warm-up game for the World Cup in Germany…
Published in the Geelong Advertiser, Tuesday 24 October 2006, p. 34. under the heading 'Joey's Dutch courage' You…
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Geelong Advertiser, Monday 14 August 2006, p. 46. Geelong teenager Matthew Spiranovic has anchored the Young Socceroos’ defence in its second draw in…
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Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 2 December 2006, p. 101. The Geelong (soccer) football community learned what the future of the game holds when the…
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2006 - Results and fixtures Day Date Time Home Team Goals Away Team Goals Thursday 26 Jan 06 7 pm North Geelong 7 Geelong 1 (Ante Deak 2, Tony Saric…
Jimmy Johnstone, ‘Jinky’ to everyone, the man voted the greatest Celtic player ever, has died at the age of 62 after a…
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Geelong Advertiser, Monday 16 October 2006, p. 35. Melbourne Victory went gunning for its eighth straight win in the 2006-07 A-League against…
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There have been a number of high profile cases or allegations of corruption in sport in recent weeks. Mike Newell, manager of Luton Town football…
Geelong Advertiser, Monday 9 October 2006, p. 37. The football World Cup is the greatest multicultural sporting…
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The Football Federation of Victoria has revealed its plans for the proposed new V-League which is due to replace the existing Premier League in…
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Seven month off-season Shame FFA. (But only six if Victory had made the finals) Sack Desira Kitz thanks for the memories Go home Merrick we want a…
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Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 26 August 2006, p. 83. Melbourne Victory opened its 2006 A-League season with a two-nil win against last year’s finalist…
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Geelong Advertiser, Tuesday 13 March 2007, p. 41 Is it about time we started examining the processes by which we select and develop our young sports…
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Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 13 January 2007, p. 86. A last minute goal by Dario Vidosic for Queensland Roar denied Melbourne Victory a point in the…
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Edited version published as 'Reds snare Sarkies', Geelong Advertiser, Monday 2 April 2007, p. 27. Melbourne Victory is being stripped of more of its…
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Published as 'Easy Melbourne Victory in the battle of the signs' in, Geelong Advertiser Tuesday 20 February 2007, p. 38 The Melbourne Victory team…
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Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 17 February 2007, p. 58. Having wrapped up the home and away league title and reached the grand final, Melbourne Victory…
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Geelong Advertiser, 13 August 2007, p. 31. Melbourne Victory’s poor pre-season run continued when it lost by a goal to nil to Sydney FC at Olympic…
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Geelong Advertiser, Friday 16 February 2007, p. 48. Geelong will have more time to prepare an attempt to join the Football Federation Victoria’s…
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Australian and British Soccer Weekly, Tuesday 27 February 2007, p. 4 Also published as 'There's room for all the football codes' in, Geelong…
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Published as 'High achievers: Geelong's star performers in the world game', Geelong Advertiser, Monday 1 January 2007, p. 37. This was an…
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Geelong Advertiser, 1 August 2007, p. 43. For many years the first evidence I could find of a soccer match being played in Geelong was in 1920, a…
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Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 3 February 2007, p. 92. Melbourne gets its first taste of A-League football finals at Telstra Dome when Melbourne…
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Geelong Advertiser, Thursday 21 June 2007, p. 00. Billed in some quarters as old soccer versus new football one of the powerhouses of the National…
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Published as Five goal Archie destroys United, Geelong Advertiser Monday 19 February 2007, p. 36 The second A-League Grand final will be known as the…
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Geelong Adelaide, Monday 5 February 2005, p. 00. Melbourne Victory overcame Adelaide United by two-goals to one in a thrilling major semi-final of…
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Edited version published as 'Poaching when the boot's on the other foot', Geelong Advertiser, Friday 6 April 2007, p. 31. The news that the Croatian…
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Geelong Advertiser, 18 July 2007, p. 46. They say that defending a premiership is harder than winning it and Melbourne Victory may find the truth of…
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Geelong Advertiser, Wednesday 14 February 2007, p. 49. So here we go again. Steve McLaren, the manager of the English national team is pilloried for…
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Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 27 January 2007, p. 91. Melbourne Victory won the home and away series, or the Minor Premiership, of the A-League by the…
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Australian and British Soccer Weekly, Tuesday 12 June 2007, p. 11. and Geelong Advertiser, Wednesday 13 June 2007, p. 46. If evidence were needed of…
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Geelong Advertiser Monday 19 February 2007, p. 37 ‘IT was an historic occasion which will never be repeated in a Grand Final,’ the Victory’s coach…
Aussie and Croatian fans at the Gottlieb Daimler Stadion in Stuttgart, 22 June 2006
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Scots go crazy over Trinidad and Tobago The World Cup is under way, but the Scots are not there. No worries. We will just support Trinidad and Tobago…
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Guus Hiddink, pragmatist, strategist and gambler It is perhaps too early to assess Guus Hiddink’s contribution to Australian football, but it is…
Goal Weekly, Monday 11 May 2009, p. 12. I know this column is called Blast from the Past, but given that most people…
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Goal Weekly, Monday 12 May 2008, p. 11 Next month Australia will continue its attempt to reach the World Cup finals in South Africa with a series of…
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Geelong Advertiser, Wednesday 19 November 2008, p. 47. It is 50 years since Sir Alex Ferguson pulled on his boots as a 16-year-old and made his debut…
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Goal Weekly, Monday, 2 June 2008 JUST, the Jugoslav United Soccer Team, was founded in Melbourne in March 1950 by Ivan Kuketz, a local hotelier and…
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Geelong Advertiser, Thursday 17 April 2008, p. 39. Geelong lawyer and soccer writer John Didulica has just won a key post as Legal Counsel for the…
Geelong Rangers won the Goforyourlife Cup by a single goal against Surfcoast on Sunday night. It was the first time…
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North Geelong won the first Century 21 Geelong Community Shield at Stead Park yesterday by five goals to one against a plucky Geelong Rangers team…
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Results and Fixtures 2007 Day Date Time Home Team Goals Away Team Goals Total goals 50 Fri 2-Feb-07 7.00 North Geelong 1 Geelong Rangers 1 (Daniel…
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North Geelong won the Century 21 Community Shield with a two-nil result against Geelong Rangers at Elcho Park on Sunday 11 March 2007. In a game of…
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National Youth League resumes at last After a hiatus of four years the new National Youth League kicked off again yesterday at Green Gully Reserve…
Melbourne Victory Youth 0 Queensland Roar Youth 2 On a dry, bumpy and windswept pitch at Green Gully Reserve, Melbourne…
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Melbourne Victory Youth 0 Perth Glory Youth 2 Melbourne Victory Youth played Perth Glory Youth at Green Gully Reserve on Sunday 5 October and looked…
It was a St Valentine’s Day massacre at Telstra Dome on Saturday night when Melbourne Victory trounced Adelaide United…
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Geelong Advertiser, Thursday, 7 February 2008, p. 46. They say the longest journey begins with a single step, and last night at a packed Telstra Dome…
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Published as 'The Italian Jobs', Goal Weekly, Monday 5 May 2008, p. 11. The mighty Juventus will play Melbourne Victory on 30 May bringing back…
Eddie Dorris was presented with the trophy as Geelong Soccer Personality of 2007 at the launch of the Century 21…
Geelong Rangers continued its march to the finals of the Goforyourlife Cup with a two-one win over North Geelong at…
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Host club Geelong Rangers ensured qualification for the finals of the Goforyourlife Cup, sponsored by the Victorian government, at Myers Reserve on…
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Day Date Time Home Team Goals Away Team Goals Grp Fri 6-Feb-09 6.00 Corio 0 Geelong Regional Football Assn 0 A Fri 6-Feb-09 7.20 North Geelong 0 v…
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Geelong’s pre-season competition has a new sponsor, the Victorian government, and the tournament will be called the Go-for-Life Cup. The format will…
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Published as 'Geelong must follow Jets into A-League', Geelong Advertiser, Tuesday 26 February 2008, p. 35 On Sunday the Newcastle Jets won the third…
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Geelong Advertiser, 29 October 2008, p. 17. It may turn out to be a storm in a teacup but the proposed and then rescinded banning of Eureka flags at…
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Goal Weekly, Monday 30 June 2008, p. 11. At last there are signs that the Football Federation of Australia is beginning to recognise that the game in…
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Results and fixtures Day Date Time Home Team Goals Away Team Goals Thursday 26 Jan 06 7 pm North Geelong 7 Geelong 1 (Ante Deak 2, Tony Saric 2, Tom…
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Results and fixtures Day Date Time Home Team Goals Away Team Goals Grp 50 Fri 8-Feb-08 6.00 North Geelong 1 Geelong Regional Football Assn 0 A (Grgo…
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Goal Weekly, Monday 28 July 2008, p. 11. Hakoah, one of two clubs which represented the Jewish community in Melbourne, was founded just after the…
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Goal Weekly, Monday 22 September 2008, p. 21. It is only two years ago since Australia played in the World Cup in Germany in 2006, but already it…
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The Australian Masters Games for 2009 kicked off at Bell Park Sports Club in Geelong on Saturday with 17 teams competing in four groups, men’s 30–35…
Two of Geelong’s teams won gold medals in the Australian Masters Games tournament held at Bell Park last week. The…