The 2009/10 season will see Gold Coast United make their debut in the A-league as one of two new teams in the competition. Under the ownership of Queensland Billionaire Clive Palmer, the Gold Coast signed current Socceroos and PSV Eindhoven midfielder Jason Culina as the club’s marquee player. United will play their A-League games at Skilled Park – home of fellow NRL club the Gold Coast Titans.
Socceroos midfielder Jason Culina has won the major award at Gold Coast United’s inaugural player of the year function. World Cup-bound Culina was named player of the year for his efforts in captaining the A-League expansion club to third place in the premiership.
The former PSV Eindhoven star played 26 games, scored three goals and laid [...] Read article
Make no mistake, we are currently witnessing one of the most intriguing and wide-reaching expansion phases in the history of Australian sport with codes venturing into uncharted waters like never before.
In the last week alone we’ve seen:
- The AFL’s Gold Coast FC launching their inaugural membership drive.
- An AFL NAB Cup match being held in [...] Read article
At the end of their first season as an A-League club, we cannot say with any great certainty that Gold Coast United is a sustainable franchise. It was a tumultuous debut season of off-field debacles that blighted on-field achievement, culminating in penalty shootout heartache and another deplorable crowd figure.
On the park, Gold Coast were exactly [...] Read article
Newcastle goalkeeper Ben Kennedy produced a sensational performance to lift the Newcastle Jets to victory on penalties in the A-League elimination semi-final against Gold Coast at Skilled Park on Saturday night.
Kennedy capped his match-winning effort by saving the 14th shot of the penalty shootout taken by United’s Zenon Caravella to give the Jets victory 6-5 [...] Read article
While all the focus is on the big city clubs, Sydney FC and Melbourne Victory, the A-League winner is likely to come from the club with the smallest crowds in the league, Gold Coast United.
Now it’s easy to predict the winners when it’s a two horse race but I thought Roar fans would love to [...] Read article
Gold Coast United have missed their chance to finish in the top two on the A-League ladder after being defeated by the North Queensland Fury 2-1 at Dairy Farmers Stadium on Saturday night.
A home crowd of 8,517 got to see the Fury have a win in their last game of the season with David Williams [...] Read article
The race for the A-League minor premiership will go down to the wire with Sydney FC and Melbourne Victory set to fight it out in next Sunday’s blockbuster match at the Sydney Football Stadium.
Sydney’s 3-2 win over Perth Glory at Parramatta Stadium on Sunday, and Gold Coast United’s 1-0 loss at home to Wellington has [...] Read article
Hardly gun-shy after running foul of Football Federation Australia all week, Gold Coast United came out firing after their A-League minor premiership chances were dashed by a 1-0 loss to Wellington Phoenix on Sunday.
Following days of off-field controversies, United coach Miron Bleiberg hinted that the FFA had sent their “best sheriff” to the tourist strip [...] Read article
If you cross back over to the Italian mainland from Venice and then take the freeway northeast for about half an hour, you’ll eventually arrive at Portogruaro.
The Stadio Piergiovanni Mecchia, home of local side Portogruaro-Summaga, stands as one of the first main sights you’ll see as you enter the town. However very few in [...]
Sydney FC’s penalty shootout hero Clint Bolton has admitted the difficulty of maintaining the focus which won his side the A-League grand final as the club ushered him to the exit door.
Bolton broke down in tears after playing his part in the shootout win over Melbourne Victory which secured the championship – admitting it was [...]
With an A-League championship and man-of-the-match honours secured hours before, Sydney FC grand final hero Simon Colosimo jetted off on Sunday to make the biggest dream of his footballing life a reality.
Colosimo, outstanding in Sydney FC’s gripping penalty shootout grand final win over Melbourne Victory at Etihad Stadium on Saturday night, had no time to [...]
Sometimes the best nights turn out nothing like you’d planned. A chance happening, a change of circumstances, an unscripted turn of events can make what was going to be a quiet one into a belter – destined to be remembered for years and years.
And so it was for the A-League on Saturday night – the competition [...]
Melbourne Victory may be tempted into making a play for Socceroos striker Mark Viduka after their worst fears were confirmed with Archie Thompson’s A-League grand final knee injury.
Thompson is facing a full knee reconstruction and up to 12 months on the sidelines after scans on Sunday confirmed he had ruptured the anterior cruciate and medial [...]
Many of you will read the above title and think “what is this author saying?” It’s OK guys, I’ll explain it to you.
Sitting inside Etihad Stadium on Saturday night, an amazing sensation came over me. Whilst it took 80 minutes to happen, the “sensation” bit me quicker than you could say “Archie Thompson ACL Joint”.
The [...]
The A-League is ready to introduce a Supercup. The winner of the league the season before (home), versus the the winner of the grand final (away). If a team wins the double, then the losing grand final team would play.
It would be a great way to kick-off the season.
The game to be played one week before [...]
Given very little separated Sydney FC and Melbourne Victory throughout the regular and post seasons, it was perhaps fitting last night’s A-League championship decider went to penalties, and perhaps even more fitting it went to the team that finished first past the post.
A hundred and twenty minutes of attritional, confrontational, energy sapping football ultimately couldn’t [...]
Melbourne Victory coach Ernie Merrick was left frustrated that Sydney FC were not penalised more heavily for a string of “blatant professional fouls” in Saturday night’s A-League grand final.
The Sky Blues won a epic match 4-2 in a penalty shootout at Etihad Stadium after the teams were locked 1-1 at the end of extra time.
Merrick [...]
Melbourne Victory’s star striker Archie Thompson is facing up to 12 months on the sidelines after a serious knee injury destroyed his, and the club’s, A-League grand final.
Thompson was stretchered off after 12 minutes following a challenge from Sydney FC defender Simon Colosimo – a strong but fair tackle after which the striker landed awkwardly [...]
