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TwenTieTh ediTion • season 2013/14 VS CENTRAL COAST MARINERS PROUDLY BROUGHT TO YOU BY INSIDE THIS ISSUE REDEMPTION FOR POLENZ SPIRANOVIC VS SAINSBURY Summertime IS FOOTBALL'S TIME MARINERS: GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN ALUSINE FOFANAH PACKAGE DETAILS RELEASED SOON! Package Tours will include: • Premium business packages • Supporters packages • Reciprocal ticketing to both home and away games. • Members exclusive travel packs • Private lunch or dinner function • All transfers • On the ground support team • Members discounts Individual tailored packages are also available for extended stays throughout China, Japan & Korea. Please register now on www.wanderlandtravel.com.au or Call 02 8488 8250 THE OFFICIAL TOUR 03 VISIT WSWANDERERSFC.COM.AU & SIGN UP TO THE WEEKLY WANDERER THIS WEEK ... FOLLOW US @WSWANDERERSFC 05 FROM THE PARTNER 27 TAKE FIVE WITH ... a message from shihonmatsu san, Managing Kwabena appiah takes some time director Mitsubishi electric australia to chat with The wanderer 07 NEWS AND VIEWS 29 REMEMBER THE NAME PACKAGE DETAILS The Gawthorne’s are our wandercrew Members of Get to know one of our upcoming stars as RELEASED SOON! the week plus all the stats and scores for this week alusine Fofanah lets you in on his story 08 REDEMPTION 33 SpOT THE DIFFERENCE only one thing is on our mind as we Can you spot the five differences this week? Package Tours will include: head into our first home match against the Mariners since the grand final 34 WANDERERS AND PEPPER JOIN FORCES • Premium business packages a welcome to Pepper who have joined • Supporters packages 13 PLAYERS TO WATCH the nRMa insurance western sydney Matthew spiranovic and Trent sainsbury wanderers as sleeve sponsor • Reciprocal ticketing to both 15 iT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR 36 #WANDERTWEET home and away games. Find out what our players like to do This week’s wanderTweet section during the festive season features images that were sent in of you • Members exclusive travel packs enjoying the win against newcastle 18 SUMMERTIME: IT'S FOOTBALL'S • Private lunch or dinner function TIME TO SHINE The views in this publication are not necessarily the • All transfers with summer of Football just around the views of the NRMA Insurance Western Sydney Wanderers corner The wanderer talks to the crew of Fox • On the ground support team FC. Material in this publication is copyrighted and may sports to see what they love about summer only be reproduced with the written permission of the • Members discounts 20 TODAY'S MATCH NRMA Insurance Western Sydney Wanderers FC. All Brought to you by amart sports photography courtesy of Getty Images, George Suresh, efcso media, and Quarrie Sports Photography. Front cover Individual tailored packages are also 23 MARINERS: GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN and this page courtesy of Getty Images. The Mariners may no longer have a westfield available for extended stays w-League team but a number of their players live on through the wanderers VISIT WSWANDERERSFC.COM.AU throughout China, Japan & Korea. & SIGN UP TO THE WEEKLY WANDERER FOLLOW US @WSWANDERERSFC Please register now on www.wanderlandtravel.com.au or Call 02 8488 8250 THE OFFICIAL TOUR OFFICIAL HYUNDAI A-LEAGUE PARTNERS WSWANDERERSFC.COM.AU 05 LETTER FROM THE PARTNER in august 2013 Mitsubishi electric australia and the nRMa insurance western sydney wanderers announced their multi-year partnership starting with the hyundai a-League 2013/14 season. This partnership sees the Mitsubishi electric brand feature prominently on the back of the wanderers playing jersey. e are thrilled to be partnering with the western sydney wanderers and this builds on our existing supportW for their terrific home ground Pirtek stadium. we wish the wanderers every success in the forthcoming 2013/2014 season and hope that they manage to go one better in the Grand Final this time around. Community is one of our company's guiding principles and the wanderers embody this in the way in which they have galvanised western sydney and their promotion of health, integration and youth participation in our region. The commitment to work together long term provides a wonderful connection between Mitsubishi electric’s strong international brand and the western sydney community with Mitsubishi electric’s australian based head office being located in Parramatta. The western sydney wanderers had an amazing inaugural hyundai a-League season which saw them win the Premiership and contest the Grand Final, they will also compete in the aFC Champions League in the coming season. while the J-League teams in the aCL are of particular interest to our Mitsubishi electric colleagues in Japan, we are sure that the wanderers will account for themselves well with their usual tenacity and commitment and we are expecting some excellent games. we have thoroughly enjoyed our partnership with the wanderers so far. we have seen some great competition as the standard of the hyundai a-League gets even better and we have had the pleasure of joining with the wanderers and their management team at some great events including our Company Children’s Christmas Party. we are looking forward to the rest of the season and have every confidence in the entire wanderers team to deliver a fantastic result and to continue to live their values of inclusion, engagement and commitment. Takeshi Shihonmatsu Managing director Mitsubishi electric australia WSWANDERERSFC.COM.AU 07 NEWS & VIEWS ROUND WRAP-UP HYUNDAI A-LEAGUE Round 9 sat 7 dec, Pirtek stadium Western Sydney Wanderers 1 (Mooy 44) Melbourne Heart 1 (williams 38) Round 10 sat 14 dec, hunter stadium Courtesy of andrew howe @AndyHowe_statto Newcastle Jets 0 Western Sydney Wanderers 1 ON THIS DAY... (Bridge 33) december 1990 marked a turning point for nsL club Parramatta WESTFIELD W-LEAGUE Round 5 sat 14 dec, (Melita) eagles. after struggling in their previous two seasons in the Marconi stadium 23national league, the eagles started 1990/91 again in unconvincing fashion. Western Sydney Wanderers 3 almost 6,000 people crammed into south Granville's Melita stadium for (Petinos 45+2, Garriock 61, the Round 11 fixture against arch-rivals - and reigning nsL champions - Kingsley 75) sydney olympic. a Geoff Gunning goal decided the 23 december contest Perth Glory 0 for Parramatta, the 1-0 win signalling a change of fortune for the club. The eagles lost just two matches over the remainder of the season to secure its first nsL finals series berth and also take out the 1990/91 nsL national Cup. FOXTEL National YOUTH LEAGUE Round 7 sun 8 dec, OF WANDERERS MATCHES ARE Blacktown Football Park Western Sydney Wanderers 3 ONE GOAL WINS (sotirio 31, McGing 75, Fofanah 92) EXACTLY TWICE THE RATE OF ALL OTHER Central Coast Mariners 0 % HYUNDAI A-LEAGUE TEAMS Round 8 sat 14 dec, COMBINED (20.5%) Marconi stadium Western Sydney Wanderers 1 41 (hanna 77) Collated by andrew howe @AndyHowe_statto Sydney FC 4 VISIT WSWANDERERSFC.COM.AU (Gameiro 28, Tomelic 64, & SIGN UP TO THE WEEKLY WANDERER Petkovski 71, Mcdonald 86) WANT MORE? FOLLOW US @WSWANDERERSFC GUARDIAN FUNERALS WANDERCREW MEMBER OF THE WEEK: THE GAwthorne’s i everyone, our names are Chelsea and eliza Gawthorne and we, like all of you, sing for the wanderers! we first became involved Has wandercrew members at the beginning of this year by helping out at the school Cup Gala days. now our role as wandercrew Proudly BROUGHT TO YOU BY members is to take part with the on-field skills during half-time with young football fanatics from different clubs around western sydney. WSWANDERERSFC.COM.AU 08 REDEMPTION story by Chad Bennett @ChadZZBennett Last season’s grand final loss to the Mariners was notable for a number of reasons. WANDERERS FC VS CENTRAL COAST MARINERS 09 he match set the bar for fan-created atmosphere at an australian sporting decider and helped create Ta new australian sports rivalry but it also robbed the Red and Black of the perfect inaugural season. The 10-game winning streak in the latter half of the season stands as a hyundai a-League record and the 13-game unbeaten run will last in the minds of wanderers supporters for a long time. having won the Premiership on the back of consistency, organisation and discipline, the wanderers were denied a fairy tale finish by the Mariners who completed a Cinderella story of their own. The 2-0 loss was a disappointing end to western sydney’s maiden season and particularly so for wanderers defender Jerome Polenz. "THE GRAND FINAL LOSS IS ALREADY BEHIND ME. I DON'T LOOK TO THE PAST, I ONLY LOOK FORWARD." WSWANDERERSFC.COM.AU 10 "WANDERLAND IS A FORTRESS AND WE'VE DEFENDED IT WELL SO FAR." after nearly cancelling out Patrick Zwaanswijk's opener with a low drive that forced Mat Ryan into a save early in the second half, his 67th minute handball allowed daniel McBreen to convert from the spot and seal the result. But with 10 games already gone in the new season Polenz claims to have moved on. "did i have a handball there?" he joked. "The grand final loss is already behind me. i don't look to the past, i only look forward. "Last season is gone, we have a new season and we have to do everything we can to pick up results in this season." while the memory may already be banished for Polenz, the denial of the hyundai a-League QUALITY WORKMANSHIP DELIVERED ON TIME For outstanding quality, prices, passion and integrity, you to demonstrate Absolute Tilings core values and discuss your cannot surpass market leaders, Absolute Tiling Solutions who project’s needs. are part of the Versatile Group. Their reputation is solidified For more information contact Absolute Tiling Solutions, by their ‘One Contract, One Contact’ approach—a fix and supply 2-3/23 Rowood Rd, Prospect NSW 2148 or PO Box method, where clients receive a single and efficient tiling solution, 947, Seven Hills NSW 1730, phone 02 9896 7727, mobile with an assigned project manager.