2 x 13 minute halves
sometimes a bit too long for my liking!

2011 Season 1 Adelaide Corporate Challenge is looking for mixed indoor soccer team in order for the comp to go ahead. Comp runs from early February to early April, each Friday at the Metropolitan Fire Station gym on Wakefield St. Its a very 'social' comp, designed ideally for city workplace teams ...

from www.the-afc.com Group C C1. Korea Republic C2. India C3. Australia C4. Bahrain Match Day 1 Korea Republic v Bahrain, India v Australia Match Day 2 Bahrain v India, Australia v Korea Republic Match Day 3 Korea Republic v India, Australia v Bahrain Group A A1. Qatar A2. Kuwait A3. China A4 ...

I used to try to keep track of Aussies playing in Greece, but have found it harder to keep up in the last couple of years. Aside from current players (listed in my earlier posting), I have compiled the following list of Australians who have played professionally in Greece. Can anyone think of anyone ...

PAOK RE wrote:ill be glad to answer any questions that aussies may have about aussie players in Greece if i know or ill just look it up for ya.

Thanks buddy!!
And thanks to The Kop too

Any Greek experts know the deal with why so many aussies playing in Greece atm? Zeljko Kalac - Kavala Paul Giannou - Kavala Robert Stambolziev - Kavala Matt Deegan - Zakynthos Yannis Galanos - Zakynthos Nick Marinos - Zakynthos Andreas Govas - AEP Kozanis Chris Tomaras - AEP Kozanis Foti ...

Any Greek experts know the deal with why so many aussies playing in Greece atm? Zeljko Kalac - Kavala Paul Giannou - Kavala Robert Stambolziev - Kavala Matt Deegan - Zakynthos Yannis Galanos - Zakynthos Nick Marinos - Zakynthos Andreas Govas - AEP Kozanis Chris Tomaras - AEP Kozanis Foti ...

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: HA, HA, makes the 0-6 v Argentina a good result Now we know that Montenegro has the better players, and now that they have split, they have all left :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink: Hey - Zeljko Jurin!? I remember you ! :lol: Didn't you play for Sydney Croatia for seven ...

Look i dont like to bring politics into FOOTBALL because it does ruin it but on this occassion i hope we SKISI the crap out of those disrespectful KOLOPETHA, why u ask??? Because of independance day??? NO. But because those turkish maggots (and calling them maggots is being nice to them the way i ...

u idiot, why post crap like that one here? Am i supposed to hide the fact that it is Greek National day on the 25th March, The day we officially took arms and fought for our independance against the turks in 1821 eh!. Ti ellinas eisai esi. This is our history it is not crap, and it will never be ...

Cerveza wrote:where ya hear that ?

http://www.theage.com.au/news/Sport/Soc ... 87023.html

with names like 'yankos' and 'lazaridis' u can safely bet ur ball bags that their greek all names ending with is, os, as are GREEK.... the 'slavs' (wannabe maco's) names are difft in addition... there is no such thing as a 'macedonian' unless ur refering to a greek from the province of macedonia ...

Yeah, I think Vidmar's mum is Slovenian.

Brescaino has a Cro mother

Yankos is 'Maco' but I'll leave it at that!!

And I'e just learned that, apparently, Stan Lazaridis considers himself Slav-Maco... will chase that up

Interesting article from http://www.jadransport.org/



The Make Up of An Ex-Yu Socceroo Team
25.12.2006 by Erik Bickford

A few weeks ago, I was with friends sitting at a cafÈ on Melbourne’s famous Lygon Street. Lygon Street is Italy’s gift to Australia. A 3 Kilometre stretch of road, laced with Italian restaurants, Italian CafÈ’s and Italian Bars, all side by side. All 100% owned, and ran by Italian families who migrated to Australia in the 50’s and 60’s. Alfa Romeo’s, Ferrari’s and Vespa’s all parked on this magnificent promenade. Tourists would be forgiven for thinking they caught the wrong plane and were in the cafÈ riddled centre of Milan or Naples. We sat and discussed how much of an influence the migrants had made to this glorious country we call Australia. The Italians, Greeks, Croats, Serbs and Macedonians brought culture, great international food, history, business skills and a host of other nation changing benefits.

1 Suitcase + 1 Yugoslav = 1 Socceroo?
However, no nation has delivered more to Australian football, than the former Yugoslavia. I went home that night, and realised, that you could almost field two teams per generation, that solely consisted of Ex-Yu’s, whether they be born in Ex-Yugoslavia, or born in Australia to 1st generation migrants. The gift that Yugoslav migrants delivered to Australian football is unbelievable. At last count, on the 16-10-2006, there have been 499 players capped with the green and gold Socceroos jersey. Of these 499, an astonishing 79 are of Ex-Yu descent. The core, and most recent are of Croatian background, and the rest are a mix of Slovenes, Macedonians and Serbs.

The Jadranroos?
I started the arduous task of creating an “All Star Socceroos-Ex-Yu Teamâ€￾. And after many hours of deliberation came up with the team below:

Goalkeeper:
Mark Bosnich (Cro/Aus)

Defence:
Tony Vidmar (Slo/Aus), Milan Ivanovic (Srb/Aus) Ned Zelic (Cro/Aus),
Doug Utjesenovic (Srb/Aus)

Midfield:
Marco Bresciano (Cro/Aus), Zarko Odjakov (Mkd/Aus), Josip Skoko (Cro/Aus),
Jason Culina (Cro/Aus),

Strikers:
Mark Viduka (Cro/Aus), Aurelio Vidmar (Slo/Aus)

Bench:
Mehmet Durakovic (BiH/Aus), Tony Popovic (Cro/Aus), Mile Sterjovski (Mks/Aus), Branko Buljevic (Srb/Aus), Eddie Krncevic (Cro/Aus), Zejlko Kalac (Cro/Aus).

Coach:
Rale Rasic (Srb/Aus)

Honarable Mentions:
Charlie Yankos (Mkd/Aus), David Zrillic (Cro/Aus), Ljubo Milicevic (Srb/Aus), John Markovski (Mkd/Aus), Steve Horvath (Cro/Aus).

What a team!
It includes 10 players, who at some stage have captained the Socceroos. It includes 9 players to have represented Australia at a world cup. All players have been part of a domestic championship winning side be it in Australia or in Europe. A combined effort of 751 caps between them. 4 ASF/FFA Hall of Fame inductees.

I will let you ponder, and maybe you can comment on other players you may think deserve a spot in that dream team. But that migration rush during the 50’s, 60’s, & 70’s to Australia beared some terrific fruit on our football grounds.

Not bad, for a bunch of wogs, hey?