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FOOTBALL FEATURE ON MARVELOUS MELBOURNE JAMES KALIFATIDIS MAGYARS Australia’s Favourite Football Fanzine And Even Bigger In A Love Parade! THE LINE UP Still $4 State League Vol. 7 No. 07 Monday 28th March 2011 Season Preview & Squad Lists Page 15 Match Details Germany v Australia Tuesday, 29 March 2011 Borussia-Park, Mönchengladbach, Germany Kick-Off 8:45pm local (Wednesday 5:45am AEDT, 5:15 ACDT, 4:45am AEST, 2:45am AWST) Q&A with STEVE LAURIE Page 4 PHOTO: SMP IMAGES SMP PHOTO: BFTP: ZORAN MATIC Page 9 TIME TO STAND TALL AGANST GERMAN MIGHT AND CREATE SOME NEW HOLGER’S VPL Round 7 Zigi’s Star Dusts Gully With apologies to HEROES!Colonel Hogan Page 22 This week’s LIVE games at ZAGAME’S Sat Apr 2 West Ham v Manchester Utd 10.40 pm Sun Apr 3 Stoke v Chelsea 12.55 am Sun Apr 3 Everton v Aston Villa 12.55 am Sun Apr 3 Newcastle v Wolves 12.55 am Sun Apr 3 West Brom v Liverpool 12.55 am Sun Apr 3 Wigan v Tottenham 12.55 am Sun Apr 3 Arsenal v Blackburn 2.25 am Sun Apr 3 Birmingham v Bolton 8.00 pm (DELAY) Sun Apr 3 Fulham v Blackpool 10.25 pm 2 Monday 28th March 2011 What did you think of the match? Tell us on Facebook International Friendly Catch live GW commentary on Twitter Break of New Dawn Awaits Socceroos Osieck will be coaching against By Daniel Iaconis his homeland for only the second Match Details time, the first occurring when he Tuesday’s international friendly Germany v Australia was manager of Canada in 2003; against Germany is as much Germany took the honours winning about new beginnings then it is Tuesday, 29 March 2011 4-1 in Wolfsburg. about redemption for Australia. Borussia-Park, Germany come into the friendly A lot has changed in the 9 months on the back of a 9-game unbeaten since Australia was humiliated Mönchengladbach, streak, suffering their last loss in 4-0 by Germany in the 2010 Germany the semi-final against Spain at the World Cup and with the addition Kick-Off 8:45pm local South African world cup, and the of a new coach, new players and German’s unrelenting form in the a new playing style; Australia (Wednesday 5:45am Euro qualifiers continued Saturday must now forge a new identity AEDT, 5:15 ACDT, 4:45am when they beat Kazakhstan 4-0 in for itself. AEST, 2:45am AWST) Kaiserslautern. The rebirth of Australian football The fact that Australia went under Holger Osieck’s reign was through the AFC cup having only complete in January when Austra- conceded one goal in regulation lia made it to the AFC Asian Cup time won’t count for much come final where they lost to Japan at kick-off, with the Germans show- the end of extra time. Australia’s ing in their most recent outing with exploits under Osieck at the tour- Australia just how devastating they nament really galvanized the foot- can be in attack. ball public in this country, many The German attack will be far whom 9 months ago were prepar- more organised and ruthless com- ing the sides obituaries, and the pared to the docile forward set ups sides performances restored a lot that the Australian defence faced at of self-belief and pride in the green the Asian Cup and after their most and gold. recent loss to the Germans, the It is Osieck’s willingness to em- Australians should recognise the ploy players from Australia’s do- need to employ an off-side trap that mestic competition, the A-League, actually works. that sets the German apart from Far too often in Durban Lucan his predecessor Pim Verbeek who Neill and co were left red-faced and would often lament the lack of pointing to the linesman as their quality offered domestically. opponenents, the likes of Miroslav Gone are names like Scott Chip- Klose and Lukas Podolksi, were perfield, Craig Moore, Vince Grella put through in on goal, and if Aus- and Mark Bresciano who for so tralia’s defence does not hold up long were mainstays in the green then we may likely be in for an- and gold, and in come Matt Mckay, other embarrassing display. Sasa Ognenovski, Robbie Kruse The quality which will be on dis- and Mitchell Langerak all of whom play on the pitch will be a clear have played or are still playing do- indication as to why Germany is mestically. ranked 3rd in the world, boasting While the nature of the match world class players such as Bastian may be purely platonic, and to Schweinsteiger, Philip Lahm, Me- some a forgone conclusion, it still sut Ozil, Sami Khedira and Thomas presents Osieck and his men with Muller. the opportunity to gauge how much What Australia must take out of work needs to be done ahead of this encounter is the attitude that their World Cup qualification cam- you learn from the best by play- paign. ing the best and while it would be Australia’s task became a lot unrealistic to expect Australia to tougher with news Tim Cahill win against such a world class op- will be absent through injury, but ponent a 2-1 loss would not be a Osieck will likely see this as an op- bad result. portunity to give a younger player the chance to grow on the interna- tional stage, and it could see new Fortuna Dusseldorf recruit Robbie Last Match Head-to-Head Overall record Germany The Squads Australia Kruse showcase his talents to the 2010 FIFA World Cup – Group D Match Goalkeeper: Rene ADLER (Bayer Le- German public. Germany 4 18th June 1974 Played 3. Win 0 Draw 0 Loss 3 Goalkeeper: Mark SCHWARZER (Lukas PODOLSKI 8’, Miroslav KLOSE 26’, Thomas MUEL- West Germany 3-0 Australia verkusen), Manuel NEUER (Schalke), Tim (Fulham), Mitchell LANGERAK (Borussia Harry Kewell and Nikita Ru- LER 68’, CACAU 70’) WIESE (Werder Bremen). Dortmund). kavytsya should provide Austra- Australia 0 Hamburg, West Germany FIFA Rankings Durban Stadium, Durban, South Africa FIFA World Cup™ lia’s main attacking threats, with 13 June 2010 Germany – 3rd Defenders: Dennis AOGO (Hamburg), Defenders: Lucas NEILL (Galatasaray), Referee: Marco RODRIGUEZ (MEX) Jerome BOATENG (Manchester City), Arne the option of Robbie Kruse coming Crowd: 62,660 Australia – 22nd David CARNEY (Blackpool), Jon McKAIN in off the bench. It will be interest- 15th June 2005 FRIEDRICH (Wolfsburg), Mats HUMMELS, (Al Nassr), Luke WILKSHIRE (Dinamo Germany: 1.Manuel NEUER, 3.Arne FRIEDRICH, 6.Sami Germany 4-3 Australia Marcel SCHMELZER (both Borussia Dort- Moscow), Sasa OGNENOVSKI (Seongnam ing to see how Osieck looks to curb KHEDIRA, 7.Bastian SCHWEINSTEIGER, 8.Mesut mund), Philipp LAHM, Holger BADSTUBER Germany’s midfield dominance OEZIL (23.Mario GOMEZ 74’ ), 10.Lukas PODOLSKI (21. Frankfurt, Germany The Odds Ilhwa). Marko MARIN 81’), 11.Miroslav KLOSE (19.CACAU 68’) , FIFA Confederations Cup™ (both Bayern Munich), Per MERTESACKER and whether McKay will be used as 13.Thomas MUELLER, 14.Holger BADSTUBER, 16.Philipp Germany 1.36 LAHM(C), 17.Per MERTESACKER (Werder Bremen). Midfielders: Brett EMERTON (Blackburn a holding midfielder. Rovers), Brett HOLMAN (AZ Alkmaar), Mile 14th June 2010 Draw 4.20 Yellow Cards: Mesut Oezil 12’, Cacau 90+2’ Midfielders: Christian TRASCH (Stuttgart), JEDINAK (Genclerbirligi), Harry KEWELL Red Cards: nil Germany 4-0 Australia Australia 7.50 Coach: Joachim LOEW (GER) Sven BENDER, Mario GOTZE (both Borus- (Galatasaray), Neil KILKENNY (Leeds Durban, South Africa sia Dortmund), Sami KHEDIRA, Mesut OZIL United), Carl VALERI (Sassuolo Calcio), Australia: 1.Mark SCHWARZER (GK), 2.Lucas NEILL (C), 3.Craig MOORE, 4.Tim CAHILL, 5.Jason CULINA, 7.Brett FIFA World Cup™ (both Real Madrid), Toni KROOS, Thomas Matt McKAY (Brisbane Roar). EMERTON (15.Mile JEDINAK 74’), 8.Luke WILKSHIRE, MULLER and Bastian SCHWEINSTEIGER Publisher: 11.Scott CHIPPERFIELD, 13.Vincenzo GRELLA (14.Brett (all Bayern Munich). Forwards: Robbie KRUSE ( Melbourne HOLMAN 46’), 16.Carl VALERI, 19.Richard GARCIA (17. Mini Blast From The Past: Alimental Enterprises Pty Ltd Nikita RUKAVYTSYA 64’) Victory), Tim CAHILL (Everton), Nikita PO Box 142 Gerd Muller scores for West Forwards: Andre SCHURRLE (Mainz), Lu- RUKAVYTSYA (Hertha Berlin). kas PODOLSKI (Cologne), Mario GOMEZ, Port Melbourne VIC 3207 Yellow Cards: Craig Moore 24’, Lucas Neill (AUS) 46’, Carl Germany against the Ph: 03 9551 7538 Valeri (AUS) 58’ Miroslav KLOSE (both Bayern Munich). Red Cards: Tim Cahill 56’ Socceroos at World Cup ‘74. Fax: 03 9551 7538 Coach: Pim VERBEEK (NED) WORLD OF SOCCER THE ONE STOP SHOP FOR ALL YOUR SOCCER NEEDS www.worldofsocca.com.au Monday 28th March 2011 3 Q&A with Bentleigh Greens’ Steve Laurie Laurie’s Green Valley Of Success STEVE Laurie’s football I think they should leave the pilgrimage has taken him to model the way it is and not many destinations around touch it for at least another the globe. Following an U17 three or four years. The more Australian game Laurie went teams you add, the more qual- over to the UK to ply his trade ity players you need to find. with West Ham and Peterbor- With the budget and salary ough Utd. Further on he had cap it’s hard to find those a stint in the inaugural HAL types of quality players. season with Sydney FC and captained Altona Magic to the What was it like to captain VPL Championship in 2009- a Altona Magic to the VPL feat he holds in high regard. title in 2009? Through sheer determination, It was awesome. Our presi- hard work, willpower and dent Melissa Fischer-Massa strength of character Steve was great.