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National Premier League 2021 FLOREAT ATHENA Floreat Athena FOOTBALL CLUB vs. Armadale SC Round 10 Kick-Off Saturday, 08/05/2021 3.00 PM #70YearsStrong #OneAthena Matchday Programme brought to you by: Design and Content: Desiree Durrani Photographer: Owen Gregory PRESIDENTʼS WELCOME Welcome to all players, coaches and supporters to both clubs for our home matches against Armadale Soccer club. The next four days sees a big few days of home matches with our U18s, U20s and First team versus Armadale. This is then followed by our junior NPL teams who face Subiaco at home, and finally, our FFA cup quarter-final on Tuesday night at 7pm. Please try to get down to support the teams for these games. Last Saturday also saw 15 of our miniroos coaches complete a Skills Acquisition Training course which will further enhance the coaching our juniors continue to receive. Thank you to these coaches who continue to up-skill themselves for the benefit of all the juniors in future years. All these coaches are volunteers and the time and effort they put into coaching and being role models the kids can look up to is something they should all be proud of. In other news, the board is continuing to regularly meet with the City of Vincent in regards to the clubroom upgrade and new change rooms as well as the training lights upgrade to Britannia reserve. We foresee this project should have some finalised plans in approximately two months. Please enjoy the hospitality of the club in the canteen and bar and here’s to three matches played in good spirits. Con Poulis FAFC President FAFC COMMITTEE Peter Kapsanis Nick Farrell Kim Macpherson Sam Albanis Vice-President Treasurer Secretary Committee Member Andrew Kailis Gabriel Tana Lesa Thomson Steven Belk Committee Member Committee Member Committee Member Committee Member FIRST TEAM COACHʼS WELCOME I would like to welcome our visiting players, sponsors, supporters and officials to Litis Stadium for the Round 10 fixture versus Armadale. The last three weeks have again seen some good performances and results from our boys. Round 8 was a tough encounter against Sorrento. After taking an early lead, Sorrento were able to fight back to score two goals and take the lead into the halftime break. In the second half, we were able to regain control and apply a lot of pressure. We eventually equalised and were unlucky not to walk away with the three points especially after having three goals disallowed. Last week, we travelled to Edith Cowan University (ECU) to take on second place ECU Joondalup. A victory was very important for us as they had game in-hand and draw would still give them an opportunity to go above us in the coming weeks. After conceding an early goal we were able to remain calm and maintain our game plan to equalise and then take the lead shortly after. Our experienced boys really stood up particularly in the 2nd half where out defensive organisation made it very difficult for ECU to break through allowing us to walk away with a 2-1 victory. Todays clash with Armadale will be a tough encounter as it always is. We need to maintain our focus and high level of play if we are to continue our great form. Finally I would like to thank the Club, volunteers, sponsors, and fans for the their ongoing support, hopefully we can celebrate another victory. Vas Vujacic Head Coach FIRST TEAM SQUAD 1 Jason Saldaris 12 Jawad Rezai 18 Phillip Arnold 2 Marco Santalucia 13 George Festa 19 Liam Murray 3 Cameron Murray 14 Ludovic Boi 20 Andrew Palmer 4 Ben Steele 15 Chris Saldaris 32 Robert Harding 10 Nick Ambrogio 16 Kyle Murray 40 Wesley Casimir 11 Dennis Galan 17 Dean Evans (C) 41 Joshua Hunter LEAGUE STANDINGS POS CLUB W D L POINTS 1 FLOREAT ATHENA* 7 2 0 23 2 ECU JOONDALUP SC 6 0 2 18 3 PERTH SC 5 2 1 17 4 SORRENTO FC 4 3 1 15 5 PERTH GLORY 3 2 3 11 6 GWELUP CROATIA 2 4 2 10 7 INGLEWOOD UTD 3 1 4 10 8 BAYSWATER CITY SC 3 0 5 9 9 ARMADALE SC 2 2 4 8 10 BALCATTA 1 3 4 6 11 COCKBURN CITY SC* 2 0 7 6 12 ROCKINGHAM CITY 1 1 6 4 *Teams have played one game more than the rest. UPCOMING MATCHES ROUND AGAINST LOCATION DATE TIME FFA GOSNELLS CITY FC HOME 1 JUN, TUE 7:00PM CUP SAFERAD 11 ROCKINGHAM CITY SC 5 JUN, SAT 3:00PM STADIUM GRINDLEFORD 12 BALCATTA SC 12 JUN, SAT 3:00PM RESERVE U20s COACHʼS WELCOME Firstly, I would like to welcome Armadale SC for Round 10 of the NPL season. We come off the back of a good performance away from home last week against ECU, our first away win of the season and some very nice football was played. Armadale SC have always been tough competitors and I don't believe that their result against Bayswater last week truly reflected their game. It has been a tough month or so for the squad with some less than acceptable results but hopefully following our win at ECU we have turned a corner now and we can begin to kick on and make a chase of the top 4, where we set our ambitions earlier this year. Good luck to Frank and Vas today, I'm sure it will be a good day of football as it always is here at Litis Stadium. Lastly, a special mention to my assistant Ryan Banks who often goes unnoticed however is always putting in the hard work behind the scenes to make sure we are ready to go come match day. The boys appreciate you mate! Zack Morgan U20s Coach U20s SQUAD Josh Hunter Abdipanah Rob Ferrante Changewe Theo Sarris Elijah Haas Laat Mathiang Ayouba Kanneh Filip Minic James Nixon Yared Nedew Raphael Kanzi George Norton Jethro Haas Dimitrij Blazeski James Nixon Ethan Anthony Mou Marial Msrvin Wesley Casmir Mwansa LEAGUE STANDINGS POS CLUB W D L POINTS 1 PERTH GLORY 6 2 0 19 2 BAYSWATER CITY SC 5 1 2 15 3 GWELUP CROATIA SC 3 5 0 13 4 PERTH FC 3 4 1 13 5 FLOREAT ATHENA SC 4 1 3 9 6 INGLEWOOD UTD FC 3 3 2 7 7 SORRENTO FC 2 5 1 6 8 ECU JOONDALIP SC 2 2 4 5 9 ARMADALE SC 1 3 4 5 10 ROCKINGHAM CITY FC 2 0 6 5 11 BALCATTA FC 0 5 3 4 12 COCKBURN CITY SC 0 3 5 3 U18s COACHʼS WELCOME Welcome to our Round 10 clash with Armadale SC. I extend a warm welcome to all players, coaches and supporters to Litis Stadium. Last week’s game against ECU Joondalup was a game of two halves, we played poorly in the first half and dominated the second half, unfortunately we were unable to bridge the gap in goals, and lost 3-1. Today’s opponents will be another difficult game and we will have to play well over 90 minutes to be competitive. We look forward to the challenge. Good luck to Vas and Adrian and our first team,and also to Zack and Ryan with the U20s. Looking forward to seeing you all on the day. Frank Mariano U18s Coach U18s SQUAD Matthew Webster Matthew Holmes Ethan Schimfe Augustine Niyonugabo Riggyan Kurran Andrea DiCiano Caleb Meleca Anton Uvarov. Mitch Dudarz Nicholas Boudville Shay Natalotto Baillee Takoniatis Flynn Gilson Luca Piffaretti Daniel DeLore Louis Fairhurst Lukas Stambelos LEAGUE STANDINGS POS CLUB W D L POINTS 1 BAYSWATER CITY SC 7 0 1 21 2 INGLEWOOD UTD FC 6 1 1 19 3 SORRENTO FC 6 0 2 18 4 PERTH GLORY 5 2 1 17 5 COCKBURN CITY SC 4 0 4 12 6 PERTH SC 3 2 3 11 7 ECU JOONDALUP SC 3 1 4 10 8 GWELUP CROATIA SC 2 1 5 7 9 ARMADALE SC 2 1 5 7 10 BALCATTA FC 2 0 5 6 11 FLOREAT ATHENA FC 1 1 5 4 12 ROCKINGHAM CITY FC 1 1 6 4 FAFC NEWS FAFC in mainstream news Just over a week ago, FAFC was featured in the community newspapers around Perth about the exclusive King Otto screening that took place this past Thursday, 27 May at 7pm. The Athena family had a great time together re-living one of the most memorable football matches in the world. 70 Anniversary Heritage Strip Unveiling We recently unveiled our new Heritage Strip kits that our NPL teams will be sporting in future matches. If you would like one, please email [email protected] or see our website for more details. Goalkeeper Jason Saldaris (left) and Captain Dean Evans (right) Photographer: Owen Gregory Juniors Matches Report Our juniors braved the cold and wet weather last Sunday in their matches. While our U16s performed exceptional, our other junior teams had a rough day out on the field. We want to encourage our juniors not to be upset but instead, have fun and play your best when you are out on the pitch. FAFC SPONSORS FAFC would like to thank our sponsors for making our club activities and social outreach programmes possible. Matchday Programme Sponsor Major Sponsors Partner Sponsors We would like to extend our most sincere thanks to Owen Gregory for donating his time to photograph our players in their new heritage strip kits. For our full list of sponsorship packages or if you need more information, please don’t hesitate to contact [email protected] FLOREAT ATHENA FOOTBALL CLUB Follow us on Facebook and Instagram at @floreatathena_official, and Twitter @floreatathena.