Monday, 7 September 2026 · Melbourne AboutContributeContact
Australian sport, reported and explained — from the A-League and the AFL to the pathways behind them. Pitch a story

Archive · Football archive

National Youth League 2008-09

Archive material. This page was published on sesasport.com before the current editorial desk took the domain on. We keep it online for readers and researchers; it is not the work of the present desk, and personal contact details of the original authors have been removed.

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 much better in the first half than they had in the opening game against Queensland Roar. Nick Ward, the marquee youth player, started and looked a different class. He had only played about five minutes the night before at the end of the senior game and needed the run. Mathew Theodore and Michael Foschini also stood out, though Foschini was unlucky to be booked for a foot-up challenge by a somewhat fussy young referee, Lucien Laverdure. But Perth got the first goal when an inswinging corner was raffled by Mijo Marinovic and Adrian Trinidad bundled it in at the far post. Then in the second half, Steve Pantelidis was sent off after the Assistant Referee on the far side spotted a push on Trinidad who was booked. At the airport afterwards David Mitchell said that there was little in it and that referees should be looking out for violent tackles not that sort of incident. I left about ten minutes before the end, and David told me that Trinidad scored again in injury time to make it two-nil at the end.

← Previous Next →

FILTER BY CATEGORY

FILTER BY DATE

More from the archive

Football archive

From the desk

Front page