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Santo Cilauro talks Socceroos, A-League
February 19 2010
One my favourite moments at the last World Cup in Germany was reading about the meeting between Santo Cilauro and Socceroos captain Mark Viduka after Australia’s dramatic 2-2 draw with Croatia.
Ian,
Yesterday I was helping my brother and his wife move house. A carpet steam cleaning company arrived. On the van was a Sydney FC sticker. My bro’s wife asked if he was an FC supporter. He said no, and that his son was an FC supporter and he stuck it on the van.
He said that we was an Apia supporter and that because of the way they had been treated he refused to follow Sydney FC because of Frank Lowy and all that old Soccer vs new football stuff.
The parents have the shits with the new football regime because of what the perception of old Soccer vs new Football did to the old NSL cubs . The wife said that Lowy doesn’t own Sydney FC anymore. The father said: “it doesn’t matter maybe when the new team comes”
This attitude is not uncommon for football fans all over Australia particularly in NSW and Victoria.
The kids now support Sydney FC but the parents don’t. The parents still watch on Foxtel but no way will they go to games. Sydney FC didn’t engage with this community at the beginning and relied on new fans and the wow factor of Dwight Yorke and bling.
You have an opportunity to get these disgruntled fans and with the kids being fc supporters and the parents being potentially Rovers supporters you already have a healthy rivalry happening.
But It’ not just words like engage or community that will get them to come. It’s free passes for the kids and volunteers that are on the football pitches every weekend it’s going into schools and talking to the kids and teachers.
That’s it. You can send my
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