Michael Owen has joined English champions Manchester United on a two-year contract, the club announced here on Friday, in a remarkable turnaround for the injury-prone striker.
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Portuguese striker Cristiano Ronaldo said on Saturday that the 94 million euros ($A165.67 million) Real Madrid paid for him was a “fair price” and he is delighted to be the most expensive player in the world.
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Perth Glory coach Dave Mitchell hopes to know by Monday whether the A-League club has been successful in luring Socceroos defender Chris Coyne.
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To be fair to Con Constantine, the great ogre of Australian club football, he does make a good point about the propriety or lack thereof in Football Federation Australia’s role in poaching Gary van Egmond from the Jets to the AIS and the national under-17s.
The first reason is Tim Cahill, the Socceroos’ most important player. Cahill is as effective as any footballer in the world right now. He is unique in Asia for his box-to-box abilities. In fact, few countries have a player like him. We do.
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The Townsville indigenous football festival kicks off
New Melbourne Victory signing Surat Sukha faces one of the toughest assignments in world football before he makes his A-League debut — going head-to-head with Liverpool midfielder Steven Gerrard.
Pohang’s 6-0 thrashing of Newcastle Jets last week may have ended Australian interest in the Asian Champions League, but the competition itself rumbles on towards the final.
It’s an interesting time for Japanese football and, as a football lover, I’m glad to be in the country. On Monday night, as I headed towards the terminal to catch my flight out of Australia, I was greeted by two tall but rather recognisable figures.
Socceroos midfielder Jason Culina wasted no time announcing his arrival as a Gold Coast United player, scoring on debut in a 4-0 friendly win over the Singapore under 23 side on Wednesday.
A minnow of international football for so long, the Socceroos have been officially recognised among the world’s elite after their ranking soared to a stunning sixteenth in the latest list published by FIFA.
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It’s an issue that never seems to be far away, and never fails to polarise public opinion. Our country’s multicultural past has played a huge part in the state of football in Australia today, and players claiming different nationalities through ancestry has been a direct by-product.
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They produced players like Alexander Hleb and Vitali Kutuzov, two of the highest profile current Belarusian internationals currently plying their trade abroad. And now, BATE Borisov are building a dynasty in their own right.
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The Socceroos are ranked sixteenth in the world. It’s hard to believe they are sitting one place above football pretty boys, Portugal, a team who are struggling to make South Africa next year, even with the best player in the world in their side.
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Tomorrow in Townsville, 200 of the brightest indigenous football talents in our great country take part in one of Australia’s most widespread football festivals involving competitors from all corners of Australia.
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Finally Australia has reached sixteenth place on the recent FIFA Rankings, a personal best for the team. It’s where we deserve to be as we had a great run on our road to the World Cup.
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A recent article out of the Netherlands named Dutch football as the most successful of the past forty years. With Verbeek and Henk Duut (ex Feyenoord) leading Australia to another World Cup, the Dutch school must be close to being declared Holy Down Under.
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The Socceroos are expected to be ranked sixteenth in the latest FIFA world rankings. This will be Australia’s highest FIFA world ranking ever, moving up from 29th.
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The 2009 Confederations Cup just finished up on Sunday with Brazil taking out the big prize in a dramatic 3-2 win over the United States, with skipper Lucio grabbing a late winner.
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There is no bigger critic of SBS than me. The questions raised by SBS about the A-League and the national team, especially pertaining to technical standards, would be different if SBS owned the rights.
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The recent transfer by Manchester United of Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid highlights why the world’s most popular soccer league, the English Premier League, should introduce a draft system, similiar to the NBA in America.
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Just think back to the weekend of August 16 and the excitement as Chelsea kicked off against Portsmouth. Scolari was doing his business on the touchline, and optimism was all around us.
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The other week on SBS, Craig Foster Interviewed Arsene Wenger in Singapore for The World Game. The two professors of football exchanged a mutual droolfest of ideas on the game.
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Six games into pre-season and already it has become evident (if it wasn’t already) that A-League new boys NQ Fury will largely be relying on Robbie Fowler for the upcoming A-League season.
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Gary Van Egmond has resigned as manager of the Newcastle Jets A-League football club to take up a $200,000 a year position at the AIS as head coach of the national U17s football team.
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I know I’m taking a dangerous route here. As far as my knowledge goes and from what I’ve read from the 606 and other message boards and forums, only some 99.99% of us Blues fans hate Peter Kenyon.
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In all sports, strength of character and courage are talked of in glowing terms. The player going high for the mark in AFL, blind to what those around are doing, the one on one tackle in league and union, the strength to carry on after a heavy hit.
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To many F Troop is merely recognised as an old American sitcom, or a now non-existent group of Millwall fans. But those up to date with the happenings of North Queensland Fury would know F Troop is the recently formed supporters group of the A-League newcomers.
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During a speech at the Press Club gallery, FFA Chairman Frank Lowy said that Australia had embarked on a Herculean task in trying to win the right to host the 2018 or 2022 World Cups.
