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Australia’s Favourite Football Fanzine And Even Bigger In Coolaroo! ? www.goalweekly.com $4 Season 5: Issue 17 Monday 29th June 2009 Photo: John Punshon MAN CITY AND THE LOVE OF MONEY ? THE REAL DEAL WITH ? REAL MADRID HUME CITY BURST DANDY’S BUBBLE! THUNDER’S UNBEATEN STREAK SILENCED END FOR OWEN? / NEW YORK COSMOS / VPL RD 16 p2 Monday 29th June 2009 Issue 17 [email protected] SOCCER HOTLINES THIS WEEK’S LINE UP ON THE MAIN MARK Soccer Hotlines 3 Q&A Interview with FFV’s CEO Mark Rendell Errea Scoreboard Page 4 Goal! Weekly’s Chris Aloi goes one on ing a fi nals series with the Womens Premier League one with Football Federation CEO, Mark this season. The intention is to see how that goes, Hume v Thunder 5 Rendell. see how it is accepted by the clubs and players with the intention to see if it’s viable to do something Eagles v Lions 6 The FFV recently held a Strategic Work- along those lines for the juniors and men’s competi- shop to discuss the future of semi-pro tion. Knights v Gully 7 men’s football in Victoria. Can you talk There has to be a review done to see if the regional a little about that and the direction we’re splits are still appropriate. When you get down to Georgies v Cannons 8 heading in? State League 3 and Provisional Leagues, do the We’ve written out to all VPL clubs and the men’s players and clubs actually want to travel that far, or Magic v Bergers 9 standing committee advising that FFA now have would they be more comfortable if they could play a working party that is reviewing state leagues their football in a more localised way? It would be South v Zebras 10 across Australia. So what the Board agreed to at the a very valuable discussion we need to have with the Workshop and subsequent meeting was that we’re clubs and it’s on the agenda, and we’ll look at that John Warren Dinner 16 not moving forward with any restructure of the at the end of the year or early next year to look at VPL next year. We still will fi nalise the VPL review something from 2011 onwards. The Regulars 18 currently being conducted by Ken Jacobs, but the status quo will remain for 2010. There won’t be What is the FFV’s view on the possible Blast From The Past 23 a men’s summer league for 2009/10 and the VPL re-introduction of a Cup competion for the will continue in it’s current form in 2010 while FFA state? Front Cover conducts their review in terms of state leagues in It’s on the agenda. Two issues are access to Hume City’s Michael Bosevski, Australia. grounds and making sure there is enough interest in a Cup competition at the lower levels. I think it Alfonzo Opazo and Ross Thomp- penalties? Is the FFV merely conducting an Is the FFA review you mentioned looking at would work well as a pre-season competition for excercise in revenue raising? son in the 3-0 defeat of Dandenong the viability of a possible national second- the lower levels and bringing the VPL clubs and Our grievance and disciplinary by-laws are aimed Thunder. Photo: John Punshon tier competition with a view to introducing State 1 clubs in for the later rounds. It’s a matter of to address the issues that come up within the sport. promotion/relegation into the A-League? logisitcs, planning and making sure that it’s some- When we did a review last year the Board identi- I think the review is more in line with seeing what thing everyone wants. fi ed a number of areas, and one was abuse towards each member Federation conducts for their highest match offi cials. Abuse towards match offi cials is at level level mens competitions and seeing how they Is there any progress on the FFV securing a a level that is actually driving them out of the game may be able to get some form of unity or standardi- major sponsor for the VPL? and makes it harder to attract people to become ref- sation across some of those leagues. We’re in discussions with a number of companies erees. Therefore we need to have a zero tolerance From the FFV point of view, we will wait for that regarding a premier partnership, with part of that towards them doing their jobs. The penalties have Goal! Weekly is available every Monday from process to be fi nalised before moving forward with being naming rights to the men’s and women’s been based around that zero tolerance approach. So all good newsagents. any restructures of the VPL orthe introduction of a premier leagues. It’s not an easy market to fi nd we’ve strengthened that, we’ve strengthened penal- men’s summer league. sponsorship, but we’re working hard. We are get- Publisher ties relating to anyone going onto the pitch who In light of the FFA’s review of state leagues, will ting some runs on the board with our recent annon- Alimental Enterprises Pty Ltd shouldn’t be there. Two things – in melee situations the review of the VPL currently being undertaken cement of Clear Solar’s sponsorship of women’s PO Box 142 when things can get out of control very quickly, if by Ken Jacobs still be completed? football and Melbourne Victory Women’s team and Port Melbourne VIC 3207 spectators or anyone who’s not a player enters the Yes, that’s still a valuable document and we’d we are talking to a number of very interested parties Tel 9645 1440 fi eld of play, penalties have been strengthened in want to feed that into the national process as well that want to get involved, but it is diffi cult. that area. And the other in is un-registered players. because you’ll have the view of all the clubs in Printer If a player is unregistered it’s a form of cheating, Victoria. Is there sponsorship or naming rights sponsor- Streamline Press isn’t it?. So we’ve taken a zero tolerance approach 155 Johstone St ship for the Summer League? to un-registered players. Fitzroy VIC 3065 Has the unwillingness of some of the clubs We’ve got a number of properties - summer league, The sanctions in those areas need to be severe to Tel 9417 2766 to participate in the VPL review with Ken men’s and women’s premier leagues, the state ensure to ensure that those type of behaviours don’t Jacobs hindered the process? leagues - that are all viable and valuable properties hinder the development of the game. If we want Distributer Ken’s out there knocking on doors and talking to that we want to make sure we get the right partner to get more referees and better quality refereeing All Day Distribution Pty Ltd people within clubs, though there has been an issue with. We’re also looking at our beverage parnter withing the sport we need to get more people in PO Box 42 that a number of Premier League clubs haven’t at the moment, so hopefully we may have an an- the refeering system and they need to be shown the North Carlton VIC 3054 been prepared to speak with Ken directly and that nouncement on that shortly. We’re working through respect they deserve, because they are basically Tel 9482 1145 has delayed the process. We would have liked to the process but obviously we want to get the volunteers doing their job to the best of their ability. have Ken’s report fi nalised by now and being con- premier partner on board, it’s a priority as it’s the News Room 03 9645 1440 They will make mistakes, everyone makes mistakes sidered by the Board but is has been delayed. biggest one but we’re not going to give it away and Advertising 03 9645 1440 in life, but they don’t need to be abused for provid- FFV have advised players who hope to be picked we’re going to make sure we get the right partner ing a community service for the sport, so penalties for the junior state teams that they must participate for the competition. Email [email protected] need to be harsh. in the FFV’s junior summer league to be eligbile Letters [email protected] to be picked. Some people are questioning that. Has there been any progress on FFV’s pro- Web www.goalweekly.com Are the FFV doing enough to support clubs What’s FFV’s justifi cation for enforcing that selec- posed business intiatives as per the FFV in dealing with instances of crowd disrup- Editor Costa Koutropoulos tion criteria? Strategic Plan? tion or violence? What are FFV doing about Art Director Carlos Ibarra There’s always a process to be selected for your We’re looking to have an online retail outlet up it? Design/Creative Ivan Andreevski state. You have to participate in a process to be and running for next season so we can provide a We have very strong disciplinary and tribunal Production MJ Ali. selected for your state. The process here is that you good quality service to all of our by-laws in place so if there there is inapprorpri- play for your club in wintertime and you play for stakeholders and we’re also looking at the venue ate behaviour the penalties are harsh.