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FOOTBALL FEATURE ON MARVELOUS MELBOURNE JAMES KALAFITIDIS MAGYARS Australia’s Favourite Football Fanzine and Even Bigger In Robina! Vol. 6 No. 7 Monday 5th April 2010 Still $4 VIC STATE LEAGUE SEASON PREVIEW FOOTBALL FOCUS ON ANTE KOVACEVIC EXCLUSIVE : TURN TO PAGE 3 EDDIE GOES STEVE STAREK PHOTO: FOR GOLD! KRNCEVIC ZEROES IN ON GOLD COAST ROLE PHOTO: PETER PSARROS WILLIAM WALKLEY / SOUVENIR KNIGHTS POSTER ACL CHAMPIONS LEAGUE goalweekly.com Melbourne Victory scrape home Soccer Hotlines 3 Overseas Wrap 5 Blast From The Past 7 London Calling 12 against Kawasaki Frontale State League Preview 16 Tasmania 20 By Roy Hay An even better save prevented Kurotsu wasting, though Victory still threatened Asian Champions League Round 4 once again but at the other end Victory on the break. Melbourne Victory 1 (Kevin Muscat 60’ pen.) NSW 21 Kawasaki Frontale 0 In front of the lowest home crowd raised the siege when Nick Ward’s quick Igawa Yursuke was booked to tugging Sth Aust 22 Etihad Stadium, Melbourne for years, 6,011, Melbourne Victory throw put Kruse clear only for the striker back Mrdja, but Hernandez could not Saturday, 31 March 2010 West Aust 23 gained its first win in this season’s to fi re across goal from a narrow angle. penetrate the wall with his free kick and Referee: Mozaffarizadehyazdi Saeid TV Listings 10 Asian Champions League by a Angulo then set up Hernandez but the there was time for one last surge by Ka- Assistant referees: Karimi Morteza and Abolfa- Victorian Fixtures 26 penalty goal to nil against Kawasa- usually accurate midfi elder pulled his wasaki. zli Mohammadreza Fourth offi cial: Phung Dinh Dung ki Frontale on Wednesday night. low drive wide. Man of the match Langerack saved the Crowd: 6,011 Coming off a four-nil hammering in The second half began with Muscat jerseys in the last minute with a fi nger- Japan last week, Victory started with landing an elbow on Noborizato Kychei tip fl ick over the bar from a desperate Melbourne Victory line-up: 1.Mitchell LANGER- Robbie Kruse and Carlos Hernandez in but he escaped without penalty. attempt by Renatinho. AK (gk), 2.Kevin MUSCAT (c), 5.Surat SUKHA, The creative side of the skipper’s game Kawasaki coach Takahata Tsutomu 8.Grant BREBNER, 11.Marvin ANGULO (28. attack, and Matthew Foschini at right Diogo FERRIERA 88’), 12.Rodrigo VARGAS, wing back. was shown fi ve minutes later with a pre- thought the long distance travel had 16.Carlos HERNANDEZ, 17.Matthew FO- Goal! Weekly is available every Victory had a good share of the pos- cise through ball to Nick Ward whose worked against his team, which had the SCHINI, 21.Robbie KRUSE (9.Nik MRDJA Monday from all good newsagents session in the fi rst half, and did not look quick shot went straight to the keeper. opportunities to have won the game but 73’), 22.Nick WARD (19. Evan BERGER 71’), across Australia. The game turned on a critical decision in failed to take them. 23.Adrian LEIJER. (Tuesday in some territories) like conceding an early goal, though Kawasaki were always dangerous on the 59 minutes. Ernie Merrick said that Victory had a se- Front cover: HAL Grand Final winners Substitutes Not Used: 20.Glen MOSS (gk), break. Kruse was running in on goal when he ries of good chances in the fi rst half and 3.Mate DUGANDZIC, 25.Aziz BEHICH, Publisher: Kurotsu Masaru got between Matthew was challenged on the edge of the area deserved its win. 29.Petar FRANJIC. Alimental Enterprises Pty Ltd Foschini and Kevin Muscat in the 11th by Komiyama Takanobu. Neither coach was forthcoming about PO Box 142 Port Melbourne VIC 3207 minute but his shot was always rising It seemed like a shoulder-to-shoulder the penalty incident. Yellow Card: 1.Mitchell LANGERAK 85’. Red Cards: Nil Ph: 03 9551 7538 and it cleared the bar. effort, and might have been outside the The result leaves both teams with a very Fax: 03 9551 7538 In 21 minutes there was a curious in- box, but the referee gave a penalty kick. slight chance of qualifi cation for the next Kawasaki Frontale line up: 1. KAWASHIMA Printer: cident when big defender Igawa Yusuke This time Muscat was his usual clinical round. Eiji (gk), 2. ITO Hiroki, 4. IGAWA Yusuke, 6. The Age Print Centre jumped all over Robbie Kruse, and when self from the spot. The Japanese fans had their huge banner TASAKA Yusuke (22. KIMURA Yuji, 90’), 7. KUROTSU Masuru, 8. KOMIYAMA Takanobu, 31 - 69 Western Avenue the ball broke Marvin Angulo continued Kawasaki threw men forward to try to and drum, and looked like they might Tullamarine Vic 3043 19. MORI Yusuke, 20. INAMOTO Junichi, 23. past a static backline to put the ball in equalise and came closest to getting it even outnumber the home support be- NOBROIZATO Kychei, (11. VITOR JR , 69’), Distribution: the net. when Tasaka Yusuke’s shot came back fore kick-off, but the hard core Victory 29. TANIGUCHI Hiroyuki (16. KUSUKAMI But the referee penalised Kruse, pre- off the cross-bar with Langerack beaten fans turned up and outshouted them. Jumpei, 62’), 34. RENATINHO , 5. SONODA sumably for backing in to his opponent, for once. But though Merrick thought that some Jun, 25. YOSHIDA Yuki, 28. SUGIYAMA Riki- hiro, Fairfax Media Publication Solutions so it was no goal. Victory sent on Evan Berger and Nik wins would bring back the fans, the fact Tel: 13 23 01 A couple of minutes later Angulo sent Mrdja for Nick Ward and Robbie Kruse, that less than one third of the member- Substitutes Not Used: 5. SONODA Jun, 18. News Room: 03 9551 7538 a grounder just wide of the post, but then but the fl ow was with the visitor. ship were present in a stadium which YOKOYAMA Tomonobu, 25. YOSHIDA Yuki, Advertising: 03 9551 7538 Mitchell Langerack had to pull off two Surat Sukha made a superb blocking holds over 50,000 and costs plenty to 28. SUGIYAMA Rikihiro. brilliant diving saves to deny Renatinho tackle to prevent a goal in 81 minutes operate, must be a worry to the club. Yellow Card: 4. IGAWA Yusuke, 89’. Email: [email protected] and Kurotsu in quick succession. and Langerack was booked for time Letters: [email protected] Red Cards: Nil Web: www.goalweekly.com Editor: Costa Koutropoulos REDS SUFFER Art Director: Carlos Ibarra Design: Ivan Andreevski SETBACK Adelaide United FC is still not as- Goal! Weekly endeavours to be as accurate as possible with everything it publishes. sured of a place in the Round of 16 after falling to Sanfrecce Hiro- The Fair Trading Act 1999 requires Goal! shima 1-0 at the Hiroshima Big Weekly to disclaim any belief in the truth Arch in Match Day 4 of the AFC or falsity of information which is supplied Champions League 2010 on Tues- to it and which is published in other than editorial content. day night. A goal on the stroke of half time from Sanfrecce captain and Japanese interna- GW Hall of Fame - Contributors tional Hisato Sato, was enough to con- Aritro Adebin, Nat Adamopoulos, Mark demn the Reds to their fi rst defeat in this Boric, Bruce Darnell, Lee Galiardi, Russ Gibbs, Andrew Fisher, Roy Hay, Markian year’s competition, the loss United’s fi rst Jaworsky, George Katsamboukas, since January. Eddie Krncevic, Jarrod Ellis, Francis In an uninspiring fi rst half from the Fields, John Fotinos, Matt Galea, Bart visiting Reds, goalkeeper Eugene Galek- Hulley, Adam Husseini, Peter Katholos, ovic kept United in the game until Sato Jacob Kagi, John Kyrou, Sebastian struck, the two time Adelaide United Kipman,George Kouroumalis, Michael Club Champion sure to have impressed Lilikakis, Josip Loncaric, Craig MacKen- zie, Alex Milic, Ashley Morrison, Adam National Coach Pim Verbeek who was North, Jeremy O’Neil, Teo Pellizzeri, an interested observer in the stands, as Kieran Pender, Walter Pless, Tony Perso- the announcement for Australia’s squad glia, Leroy Robinson, Julius Ross, Roger for the upcoming World Cup draws Sleeman, Mike Salter, Luke Sheehan, nearer. Con Stamocostas, George Stogiannou, But despite Galekovic’s early heroics Reuben Schembri, Lachlan Taylor, Elias Simopoulos, Michal Skrodsky, Addy and a much improved second half dis- Wetzler, Bruno Zovko. play from the Reds right across the park, they could not penetrate the Sanfrecce Photographers goal or put enough pressure on Hiroshi- Adam Butler, Therese Duffy, Daniel ma keeper Shusaku Nishikawa. Flis, Dean Grant, Carlos Furtado, Geoff Despite doubts over captain Travis Jones, Peter Kakalias, Darryl Kennedy, Dodd, Marcos Flores and Sergio van Lee McCormick, Mark McGeady, Brett Kevin Muscat scores from the spot to secure Victory’s win over Kawasaki Frontale last week. McDonald, Anita Milas, Peter Psarros, Dijk leading up to the game, the Reds John Punshon, Brett Robson, Steve PHOTO: DANIEL FLIS fi elded the same starting eleven for the Starek, George Stogiannou. fourth time in a row. 2 Monday 5th April 2010 SOCCER HOTLINES goalweekly.com Krncevic goes for Gold By Craig MacKenzie Krncevic added. my professional playing career had end- Krncevic is one of a number of can- ed and the exciting style of football I in- EXCLUSIVE EDDIE Krncevic is set for a sensa- didates for the post that became vacant troduced at Carlton, Marconi and South tional return to elite club coaching after Paul Okon was sacked in February. Melbourne.” throughout professional ranks and is in a as assistant to Goal Coast United Former Socceroo captain Okon claimed Bresciano, Grella, Thomson and Mur- prime position to assist Bleiberg should head coach Miron Bleiberg.