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- Member Since:
- September 2011
- Based In:
- Australia
- Favourite Sporting Team:
- A.C. Milan, Socceroos, Magical Magyars, Melbourne Heart
- Favourite Sports:
- Football,
Latest Articles
Ronaldo vs Messi: Who deserves the Ballon d'Or?
9 Nov 2012For the past five years, the same debate has raged tiresomely: who is better, Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi? By now football fans should have adjusted to the fact that both are equally as good, despite their footballing and personality differences. While the debate will never settle, the respectful conclusion should be to respect each [...]
Generation Next: Where to for the Socceroos?
27 Oct 2012What will happen to Australia’s national football team come 2014? It is not a new question – it has been asked since 2006 – and is more important now than ever. With the nation grasping at straws by holding onto the stars of Germany 2006, the immediate future is not looking as bright as once [...]
Morosini one more tragic tale of football’s fallen heroes
16 Apr 2012As I lay awake just before 2 A.M, anticipating the AC Milan-Genoa clash, I began to wonder why kick off was taking so long. Breaking news came through the internet – Piermario Morosini had died from a cardiac arrest. I just could not believe it. The Livorno midfielder collapsed 33 minutes into the Serie B [...]
Milan, Napoli and Inter show Serie A is still powerful
28 Nov 2011Rewind back to the yester-years of the late eighties and early nineties, and Serie A stood in even bigger acclaim than the current La Liga. Arrigo Sacchi’s Milan was deemed to be the greatest club side any football team had ever produced. Up with the fifties and sixties Hungarian national team, where Ferenc Puskas showed [...]
Next gen Socceroos look the goods
12 Nov 2011When the 2006 World Cup qualifiers were uniting Australian fans through cheers, beers and tears, it was one of the greatest feelings of our lives. For the first time in 32 years, we qualified for, and earned the right to participate in the world’s largest sporting event. It was bliss. I can guarantee that each [...]
Real Madrid and the Portuguese prodigies
10 Nov 2011Football, like most things in the world, works in cycles. Adhering to this theory was the shift from Serie A to the EPL over the late 90s. The weight of the focus, desire, expertise and money inadvertently entered the beautiful game in the Premier League and a majority of consumers never looked back. But then [...]
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