Posts Tagged "Mark Viduka"

If picking the best player ever is a recipe for countless pub debates, Australian football has gone several steps further by asking fans to also nominate the sport’s best team and best coach.

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The Victorian Premier League (VPL) kicks off today with defending champions Green Gully Cavaliers travelling to Kingston Heath Soccer Complex to take on a youthful Bentleigh Greens outfit.

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Asian football has come a long way in the last decade. It began promisingly enough with the World Cup being staged in Asia for the first time in 2002 in South Korea and Japan.

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The National Soccer League kicked off in 1977, thirty-four years ago this month. As we saw, the NSL was a brave and innovative step in Australian football, creating the first ever truly national football competition.

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Is this a world first? This week it was announced Mark Viduka had won the Alex Tobin medal, awarded by PFA and based on the attributes of Tobin – leadership, achievement, commitment to one’s fellow professionals, and service and dedication to the game.

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As expected this season’s standout side, Brisbane Roar, dominated the PFA’s Alex Tobin Medal awards night in Melbourne yesterday. With seven players in the starting eleven plus a substitute and coach all coming from the A-League Premiers, Ange Postecoglou’s Roar revolution can add another notch to its belt.

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Mark Viduka has been officially made a legend of Australian soccer – and is officially retired. The former Socceroos striker, who has not played since mid-2009, was bestowed with one of the highest honours in Australian football on Monday night – the Alex Tobin Medal from his peers.

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Former Socceroos legend Mark Viduka will become the fourth beneficiary of the highly regarded Alex Tobin medal. The ceremony will take place in February at a gala function celebrating the enormous contribution he has made to the Melbourne football fraternity, the Australian sporting landscape, and his effect on the global stage.

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For so long, the Socceroos were a two-man show in the eyes of the Australian media and a large segment of the general population. In those days, in the late 90s and early 2000s, the Socceroos were Harry Kewell and Mark Viduka.

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Australians in the English Premier League are becoming an endangered species, their presence in arguably the world’s top domestic league shrinking steadily in recent seasons.

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The new Socceroos are essentially the old Socceroos – the same team that captured the world’s imagination by fighting to the brink of a quarter-final spot at Germany in 2006.

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Socceroos legend, Mark Viduka, hasn’t played football for a year, but apparently he hasn’t retired. With all due respect, Dukes, it’s time you tell us something.

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What a week it was for the A-League’s newest franchise, the Melbourne Heart, with the signing of former Sydney FC pair John Aloisi and Simon Colosimo, revealing their strip and announcing their training and administrative base.

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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.

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Socceroos great Mark Viduka is considering playing in the A-League, saying he is “in two minds” about whether to return to the game.

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Fox Sports are claiming a world exclusive with Mark Viduka appearing on Fox Sports’ Hyundai Matchday Saturday. Despite the Matchday Saturday tag, this week the show airs on Friday night as a live Grand Final Preview Special.

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Last Friday, the Melbourne Knights announced Mark Viduka would be the team’s number one ticket holder for the new Victorian Premier League season.

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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.

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After five years the A-League Marquee can be assessed. And with a couple of significant exceptions, in my view, the idea has failed.

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Each year, the A-League supplies an increasing number of young Australians who start to shine. And this season is no different. In fact, I’d say we have more quality young guns coming through than ever.

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