2018 Round 19 Wollongong Wolves FC V APIA Leichhardt Tigers FC
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KICKOFF vs ROUND 19 WIN STADIUM 7PM SATURDAY 21ST JULY 2018 #NPLNSW CORPORATE PARTNERS 2 NPLNSW.COM.AU CONTENTS WOLLONGONG WOLVES COACHING STAFF & MANAGEMENT 1st Team Coach Jacob Timpano 1st Grade Assistant Coach Luke Wilkshire and Nick Montgomery Senior Manager Robert Positti Under 20s Manager Robert Positti Under 18s Coach Richard Lloyd GK Coach John Krajnovic Health and Medical Services Figtree Physiotherapy Match Preview 6 Technical Director Neil Mann Team Lineups 20 CEO Chris Papakosmas Season Draw 38 Admin Manager Susan Gatt Program Contributors Malcolm Rowney Photographer - Seniors Pedro Garcia Photographer – Juniors Chris Horn Ground Announcer Andrew Byron For advertising opportunities, please contact Susan Gatt on 02 42 722 624. This program is proudly printed by WOLVES SHOP 32 Waverley Drive Unanderra Public Notices: • Entry inside the perimeter fence of the playing area is prohibited at all times and offenders will be prosecuted. • All spectators are requested to vacate the ground within 15 minutes of the end of the final game. Police may be requested to remove any unauthorised people who remain after the stipulated time. • The setting alight of, or the lighting or discharging of any type of object, including fireworks, signal or smoke flares is strictly prohibited. Offenders will be arrested and charged. Website: wollongongwolves.com.au Email: [email protected] Phone: 02 42 722 624 Address: 32 Waverley Drive Unanderra NSW 2526 Twitter: @wollgongwolves Facebook: fb.com/wollongongwolves Instagram: @WollongongWolves 3 WELCOME #NPLNSW elcome everyone to our Round 19 many with their strong form. They have gelled Wmatch against competition leaders APIA together beautifully as a team and are looking Leichhardt. to finish the season off strongly, giving them a great springboard for finals football at season’s Crunch match for our mighty Wollongong end. Up front Tory Musumeci has been Wolves. A win here is crucial to stay in touch in sublime finding the back of the net 12 times, the hunt for a top 5 finish. with some of his goals having to be seen to be Lining up today against the competition’s most believed. He will be hungry to add to his tally impressive and consistent team throughout today and keep our up and coming U20s firmly the year, the challenge we face is a big one but entrenched in the top 5. one we are more than capable of meeting. Our U18s are starting to hit a purple patch of APIA sit atop the table and have been the form at exactly the right time of the season. form team and premiership favourite from the After a frustrating and disruptive beginning to outset. They have the best attacking record their 2018 campaign they have turned things of all the teams in the competition and their around and currently sit on 29 competition sharpshooter Jordan Murray has been on fire, points alongside 4 other teams. These sides netting 19 times this year to easily lead the top will be battling it out for 4th and 5th spot on goal scorer list. Our credentials will definitely the U18s premiership table and our Wolves are be put to the test today, and our boys are now right in contention for a finals finish. Lead ready to prove we can more than match it with brilliantly by goal keeper Brendan Krcanoski anyone in the competition. our U18s have enjoyed a 4 match winning streak that has seen them roar up the table Playing at WIN Stadium – The Wolf Den is a and will be looking to make it 5 on the trot and huge bonus as we play our best football at continue their winning ways today against APIA home, in front of our proud and loyal fans, Leichhardt. who are the best and most passionate fans in the league. Each and every game today will have a huge bearing on the remainder of the season BIG GAME TODAY – AND WE ARE READY!!!! and with only 4 rounds to play, maximum 3 Plenty to play for in our lower grade games points on offer for a win will be absolutely today as well. paramount. Our U20s have been the surprise packet of Sit back and enjoy the best quality the competition this year. Many had written representative football across the Illawarra and them off, giving them little hope at the start South Coast in the best football stadium in our of the season. Our young tyros though have competition. Cheers on our teams as we look responded brilliantly and are currently sitting to continue our push to finals football. in 4th spot on the premiership ladder. Playing GO YOU MIGHTY WOLVES! quality football our U20s have surprised 4 01: LARGE USE: OVER 150MM WIDE This logo has a smaller ‘®’ symbol SPONSORS 02: SMALL USE: 55MM - 150MM WIDE This logo has a larger ‘®’ symbol 5 MATCH PREVIEW #NPLNSW ewly crowned premiership since 1987. N2018 Waratah Cup Last season Jordan Murray was the top scorer Champions and 2017 with ten goals with ten other players were also Premiers and Grand on the goal scorers list plus an own goal. The Finalists APIA Leichhardt team achieved 49 points from 16 wins and one are the Wollongong Wolves draw, scoring and conceding 50 and 18 goals opposition in today’s Round with a goal difference of plus 32, the best in the 19 match at WIN Stadium for the 47th meeting competition. Apia was kept scoreless on two in league matches since the first in 1981 which occasions, which was the best together with one concluded in a 1-1 draw on the 5th April with other team. The best result sequence without Peter Tredinnick (WW) and Zdenko Kafka (A) loss was five matches, Rounds 10-14 win, being the scorers. APIA is the leading team in win, win, win, win and win and Rounds 18-22, the 2018 competition after scoring six goals win, win, win, win and draw. D’Apuzzo scored versus Sutherland Sharks in Round 17. the quickest goal, which was achieved in the THE OPPOSITION TODAY – APIA LEICHHARDT third minute of the Round 19 Sydney Olympic A new coach for 2018 is returnee Billy McColl game. 6-0 was the highest scoring match over who has taken over from last year’s successful Parramatta FC in Round 18 while 4-2 was the gaffer, Danial Cummins. New recruits for APIA worst defeat. A multi scorer in a single match for this 2018 competition include Howard was Murray, with a hat trick (one of only three Fondyke (Parramatta FC) Zach Mackenzie in the competition) and brace in addition with a (Bonnyrigg White Eagles), Lachlan Roberts and brace by Ucchino. The team’s goal scoring per George Howard (Melbourne Victory). However, games average was 2.27 while the converse was In the middle of the year transfer Mackenzie 0.81. departed for Sydney Olympic. Fourteen players were included in the 2017 APIA Leichhardt since its inception in 1954 last ‘Team Of The Week’ with S. Symonds gaining the won honours by annexing the NPL NSW Mens1 most nominations i.e. seven. This was followed Premiership in 2017 when the team drew with by Sekiya (5), Murray (3), Biczo (3), Millgate Rockdale City Suns in Round 22 to tally forty (2), D’Apuzzo (1), Galimi (1), Lundy (1), Muata nine points from sixteen wins and one draw, -Marlow (1), Necevski (1), Parisi (1), J Symons (1), two points ahead of the second team. This was Turnbull (1), and Ucchino (1). the club’ first premiership since winning thirty In addition, Sean Symons was named the NPL years ago in 1987 when the club took out the NSW Mens 1‘Player Of The Year’ for 2017 and NSL Premiership with thirty-five points. Coached Danial Cummins achieved the ‘Coach Of The by Danial Cummins, players who turned out for Year’ award. Symons and Sekiya (as a substitute) APIA during 2017 were Ivan Necevski, Nathan were named in the ‘Team Of The Year.’ Millgate, Josh Symons, Sean Symonds, Franco APIA had a good run in the 2017 FFA Cup Parisi, Corey Biczo, Jordan Murray, Matthew West, David D’Apuzzo, Sean O’Connell, Adrian going out in the Round of 16 to Blacktown City. Vlastica, Brandon Lundy, Tasuku Sekiya, In addition, the team played in the National Dominic Cox, Adrian Ucchino, Themba Muata- Premier League Finals series winning the first Marlow, Bradley Bartels, Luke Turnbull and Paul match against Adelaide City 1-0 with Sekiya Galimi. scoring before bowing out in the semi finals 2-1 to Heidelberg United, Biczo scoring his team’s In the last four years, the Lambert Park club has goal. finished in 11th, 2nd, 8th and 1st, on the point’s table, which has been a bit of a rollercoaster THE MATCH-UP ride with little consistency. However, the club Since 2004/05 in the NSW competition, the two has reached the summit and no doubt will want teams have met 25 times with APIA leading by to stay in these high echelons in future and is two with 11 wins and being ahead in the scoring successful at this stage of the 2018 competition. department, 45 goals to 36. APIA’s best win is Danial Cummins had certainly done a great 3-0 in 2006 while the Wolves biggest victory is job in the coaching role to gain his club’s first 5-1 in 2014. The Wolves have five nil scores to 6 NPLNSW.COM.AU APIA’s three with the highest number of goals season, two hat tricks and four braces and also scored in a single match being 11, in the 6-5 the top scorer in the competition to date, so score line in 2009.