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A Clean Slate 8 Flipping the Script 18 A new season brings a fresh start and a chance Our Westfield W-League 2015/16 squad is an to get back among the best. exciting blend of youth and experience. The views in this publication Story by Jacob Windon Story by Domenic Trimboli & Christian Layland are not necessarily the views of the NRMA Insurance Western Wanderers FC. Material in this Regular Columns publication is copyrighted and may only be reproduced Open Letter: Head coach Today’s Match 16 Guardian Funerals with the written permission 5 Wandercrew member from the NRMA Insurance Fox Football Fix 20 of the Week: Graeme Western Sydney Wanderers Warm Up 6 and Vanessa Carrett 26 SLAV’S Spot the FC. All photography courtesy Five Things 11 Difference 22 In the Community: of Getty Images, Steve Heartland of Players To Watch: Christo, Ali Erhan, Daniel Football 27 Dario Vidosic vs Corporate NEWS: POCO Boud, German Federal Joins the Wanderers 23 13 Archives and Granville & The Last Word 29 Districts Soccer Football Fox Football Focus Take Five with with Kate Cohen 15 25 Our Partners 30 Association.

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From the Coach Tony Popovic surveys the year ahead

n three years we’ve had a fantastic time as this football club in every match and you will see a club. We’ve played in major competitions, us evolving and that will take place throughout the twice in the Champions League. We’ve been in year. Players come here because they want to play Back to the Itwo Grand Finals, won the Premiers’ Plate and the for a top club, that’s how the new players view us. top Tony Popovic Champions League. We’ve become accustomed to They saw our success from the outside and they is aiming for success, expectation is high and that is how we like it. want to be a part of it. silverware this There has always been a plan and a vision for the My expectation is for us to always be the best season Wanderers that we’d be at a certain point after five we can be every day and challenge for titles every years. After three years in which we achieved so year. That was the same in year one when we were much, we made the decision that now was the right just forming as a club, when in June we didn’t time to take the next step in our evolution as a club have a team. Internally the ambition was to always and that includes our playing style. challenge for honours. While we maintain the core values that are so This is a fantastic club to be a part of and I want important to this club – the discipline, hard work, us to be the best. We are a young organisation with hunger and winning mentality – values that must great ambition and are currently in the next phase always remain as they are the cornerstones of this of our vision and evolution from the first team to the football club, within that we want to improve, Academy, where we begin the process of nurturing we want to get better. With the players we have the future stars of the Wanderers. brought in and the changes we’ve made to the I look forward to seeing all of our amazing fans at coaching staff, we feel that this will propel our today’s match as we continue our journey to be the best. club forward over the next five years to achieve a lot more success. This season you will see a very ambitious group TONY POPOVIC of players that want to get back to the top in the HEAD COACH Hyundai A-League. You will see the core values of WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS FC

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he 2015/16 pre-season has brought The players that have stayed with T a lot of great memories for the club the club this season have driven the with the best being our progression into culture that has been set by Tony the later stages of the Westfield FFA Popovic and the new players have Cup. Getting past Brisbane Roar and adopted quite quickly. Palm Beach Sharks was very rewarding I believe they are very happy to be here considering the stages we were at in our and will have big parts to play this season. pre-season preparations. Each player here at the Western The biggest challenge of the pre- Sydney Wanderers contributes something season was its duration. It went for very special to the club. In any good three and a half months and it can often team, you need a collection of different ON THIS DAY be difficult to keep players focused. players that compliment each other well Courtesy of Andrew Howe We have to come up with a variety of on the field and I think that’s exactly @Andrewhowe_statto training programs and regimes to ensure what we have in this year’s playing group. that the players want more and are Without question, our main goal for this Legendary Socceroos defender ready for the first round of the A-League season is to win the Hyundai A-League. Doug Utjesenovic was born 8 season. Nine other teams probably feel this way October 1946, in Belgrade Serbia The new players that have joined the too but we genuinely think that we have a (then Yugoslavia). He played for team have fitted in very well and this squad that is good enough to challenge for OFK Belgrade before moving to is of credit to the club and the greater the title and we will do everything we can in 1969, where he linked Wanderers community that have made to make sure that we are the ones lifting up with club Footscray them feel very welcome. the silverware at the end of the season. JUST. He moved to Sydney in 1971 where he played out a fruitful ten year WE ARE ON THE LINE Fixtures & Results career with St George. He became You may have noticed these odd Scan the QR code below for all score in integral part of the Socceroos looking barcodes (see below right) updates across our Hyundai A-League, squad in the lead-up to the 1974 throughout ‘The Wanderer’. To get the Westfield W-League and Foxtel World Cup, barely missing a game best experience simply follow these National Youth League matches. for Australia as the team qualified for three easy steps: the final tournament for the first time. He played in all three of Australia’s Step 1 Download a QR scanner app to games at West Germany 1974, your smart device where the part-time Socceroos went down to eventual Champions West Step 2 Open the app and scan each QR Germany and East Germany, and code in ‘The Wanderer’ drew with Chile. Ultimately he played 61 international matches for the Step 3 Enjoy your interactive Australian team, from 1972 to 1976. Wanderers content

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he 2015 off-season at the Add to them new assistant coach T Wanderers has been an exciting one. Andrés Carrasco, another Spaniard, and I refer of course to the new arrivals on the team is destined to have a distinct the club’s playing roster. Latin feel this season. You won’t get any This is a big contrast to the corresponding complaints about that from me. time last year when the Wanderers made Defender Alberto and midfielders more headlines for the players that left the Andreu and Dimas Delgado make up club rather than the ones who replaced the Spanish contingent. Striker Federico @adam.luczak  them. Sure, the likes of Juric, Spiranovic Piovaccari is the Italian. Add to them and Bulut have left in recent months but for quality attackers and potential match richer pastures, not because Western Sydney winners and Dario wanted them to leave. Vidosic and there is a nice technical It obviously became clear to Head balance to this new team. Coach Tony Popovic that after the lowly Popovic is not the type to talk openly table finish last season there had to be about playing philosophies, especially dramatic changes. And he has rung them. when he changes them. But one can’t Ten new players have arrived to the help suspecting that there is a brand first team squad not including those new style, based on passing and ball @gabs_drac  promoted from the youth ranks. The possession, about to go on show certainly roots of three new players are in Spain by the time the team completely gels. and one in Italy, fertile football terrains I can’t wait for the Wanderers’ season and technical cultures. to begin.

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Story by JACOB WINDON @JacobWindon A clean slate

With the new campaign well and truly upon us, it’s time to shake off the cobwebs of pre-season and look forward to the season ahead

s the NRMA Insurance Western Sydney Wanderers enter their fourth Hyundai A-League term there is an Happy Days New Aundeniable air of anticipation and expectation recruits Dimas and around Wanderland. Jamieson look set Such a mood is testament to the unprecedented to play key roles success witnessed in the opening three chapters this season of the club’s history, which has seen two grand final appearances a Premier’s Plate and an AFC Champions League triumph. Winning Asian football’s biggest prize in just the third season of existence has raised the bar to heights seldom witnessed in the Australian football landscape. It’s why a new-look Wanderers team will kick-off season 15/16 of the Hyundai A-League with a target above their head, verified by the ACL winning star that is now firmly etched upon the jersey. It’s a challenge Tony Popovic and his men will relish. The founding principles and winning mentality of Popovic’s game plan will remain steadfast as ever with several notable transformations in coaching and playing staff indicating significant modifications in the team’s blueprint. This notion is supported by what has been witnessed on the field in a long pre-season;

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…there looks to be “ competition in every position

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primarily that the Wanderers have been imposing The addition of Dario Vidosic in particular themselves on the opposition with more regularity could be the most vital piece of the jigsaw. and have employed greater emphasis on intelligent, The Wanderers struggled for cohesion and DARIO’S RETURN patient use of possession. efficiency in the final third last season and Big things are Overall, the team looks set to head in a new the arrival of the Australian marquee fills a expected of stylistic direction, underscored by the raft of new hole in the side that many consider the team’s Vidosic this players recruited by Tony Popovic during the weakness to be. season off-season. The likes of Dimas Delgado, Mitch The capture of the former Brisbane and Nichols and new assistant coach Andres Carrasco Adelaide United man caps an encouraging off- will be key in laying the groundwork of this new season that has evidenced progression in several transformation. Importantly, there looks to be areas, culminating in a genuine sense that competition in every position and the squad is as Wanderers could defy the odds again as they’ve well balanced as it has been in years. done so many times in their short history.

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FIVE THINGS Key talking points ahead of the start of season 2015/16

Spanish DNA What makes the presence of this Spanish quartet so significant is that it’s the first time in Derby day the club’s history that the Wanderers The is undoubtedly have allowed their squad to be the showpiece occasion of the fixture dominated, in part, by a mainstream list for fans of both the Red & Black European footballing culture. and the Sky Blue, and is set to take on new heights this season. Fortunately, the Wanderers don’t have to wait too long to exact revenge with the first encounter against Sydney FC taking 1 place in Round 3. It’s already shaping up as one of the biggest clashes of the season and a win over them there could potentially do wonders for the team’s momentum so early on in the season.

Nichols and Vidosic return In Nichols and Vidosic, Tony Popovic 2 possesses two of the most versatile creative midfielders in the Hyundai A-League: the matter of fitting both into the same system will be one of Can the Pied Piper hit the more interesting sub- the right note? plots of the season and Federico Piovacarri arrived provide the boss with down under charged with a real headache in the arresting the Wanderers’ need coming months. for an out and out goal scorer and early signs suggest the Italian marquee is ready to shoulder the 3 responsibility.

Talented youngsters Previously, we have seen Tony Popovic Read More hand first-team opportunities to the likes 4 Scan the QR of Daniel Alessi and Jonathan Aspro code below to who are now established members of the read the whole first team squad. This 2015/16 season story will give fans the chance to witness some of the latest youngsters off the Western Sydney production line – one of whom is Jaushua Sotirio, who is surely knocking on the door of the first-team after making several promising appearances during pre-season. Stay Conne5cted FOLLOW US @WSWANDERERSFC    11

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PLAYERS TO WATCH EVERY MATCH WE GIVE YOU THE HEAD-TO-HEAD STATS ON TWO OPPOSING PLAYERS

VIDOSIC MACLAREN A-LEAGUE Appearances

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A-League Goals

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MINUTES PLAYED

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Dario Vidosic Forward JAMIE McLaren Forward After a turbulent time at FC Sion, Expectations are high for Brisbane’s Vidosic returns for his third stint in the new number nine, Jamie Maclaren. The Total Cards A-League. The new number 10 will be former Perth man who bagged nine goals hoping to recapture the form that made for the Glory last term and will be the him a Socceroos squad regular. 4 1 Roar’s main attacking outlet this season.

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Story by Kate Cohen @KateCohenKCS Fox Football Focus will analyse one part of the opposition for every home match

estern Sydney Wanderers will One area of Brisbane’s game Western Sydney already be familiar with what to can look to exploit is when they do look to press expect against Brisbane Roar, high up the pitch. That is because, as was the case Sharp havingW faced them in the FFA Cup Round of 32. during the FFA Cup clash, Brisbane’s 4-2-3-1 in Shooter In that game Brisbane pressed high up the pitch, possession becomes a 4-4-2 without the ball, with Jamie Maclaren something they struggled with last season having the No.10 – either or Devante Clut has been brought struggled to adequately replace . – forming a front two with Maclaren to press the in to solve the But there is a new No.9 in orange this season, two centre backs. Roar’s problems and in the livewire Jamie Maclaren, John Aloisi has Should Western Sydney be efficient with their recruited a player who is lethal in the box and offers possession when building from the back, they can look an ‘out ball’ over the top. The constant threat of to capitalise on any potential overload in the centre of Maclaren running in behind will have the Wanderers’ middle when the No.10 steps forward. Should Brisbane defence on edge, as will right winger Brandon counteract that potential overload by telling a centre Borrello, who is looking to go to another level after back to step forward and pick up Mitch Nichols, the his breakout season in 2014/15. Wanderers can then exploit the space left at the back.

Stay Connected VISIT Wanderland.com.au  15 Today's Match Back to Contents Page Western Sydney wanderers fc SQUAD S B # Name Position ¨ ¨ 01 Dean Bouzanis Goalkeeper ¨ ¨ 02 Shannon Cole Defender TODAY'S ¨ ¨ 03 Scott Jamieson Defender Score ¨ ¨ 04 Nikolai Topor-Stanley Defender ¨ ¨ 05 Brendan Hamill Defender ¨ ¨ 06 Mitch Nichols Midfielder MATCH ¨ ¨ 07 Romeo Castelen Forward SUBSTITUTES ¨ ¨ 08 DIMAS Midfielder Grab a pen and write down your own ¨ ¨ 09 Federico Piovaccari Forward record of the game ¨ ¨ 10 Dario Vidosic Midfielder Here are our previous Matches against the Roar. Next Round the full ladder will be available. OFF ¨ ¨ 11 Brendon Santalab Forward ¨ ¨ 12 Scott Neville Defender Date For Against Venue Result Season Stage ¨ ¨ 14 Golgol Mebrahtu Forward 27/10/2012 1 0 A W 2013 League ON ¨ ¨ 15 Kearyn Baccus Midfielder 09/12/2012 1 0 H W 2013 League ¨ ¨ 16 Jaushua Sotirio Forward 20/01/2013 2 1 A W 2013 League

OFF ¨ ¨ 17 ALBERTO Defender 12/04/2013 2 0 H W 2013 Semi-Final ¨ ¨ 18 ANDREU Forward 22/11/2013 1 3 A L 2014 League ¨ ¨ 19 Mark Bridge Forward 07/02/2014 1 1 H D 2014 League ON ¨ ¨ 20 Goalkeeper 05/04/2014 1 1 H D 2014 League ¨ ¨ 21 Jacob Pepper Midfielder 04/05/2014 1 2 A L 2014 Grand Final ¨ ¨ 22 Jonathan Aspropotamitis Defender OFF 03/12/2014 0 1 H L 2015 League ¨ ¨ 23 Shayne D'Cunha Defender 08/03/2015 0 1 A L 2015 League ¨ ¨ 31 Alusine Fofanah Midfielder 25/03/2015 4 1 A W 2015 League ON ¨ ¨ 32 Daniel Alessi Defender Legend H=Home; A=Away; W=Win; L=Loss; D=Draw ¨ ¨ 33 Josh Macdonald Forward ¨ ¨ 36 Liam Youlley Midfielder PROUDLY brought to you by OFF Coach Assistant Coaches Tony Popovic Hayden Foxe ON Andreas Carrasco

16 The Wanderer Round 1 Back to Contents Page Today's Match Brisbane Roar SQUAD S B # Name Position ¨ ¨ 01 Goalkeeper ¨ ¨ 03 Shane Stefanutto Defender TODAY'S ¨ ¨ 05 Corey Brown Defender ¨ ¨ 06 Jerome Polenz Defender Score ¨ ¨ 07 Midfielder ¨ ¨ 08 Steven Lustica Midfielder MATCH ¨ ¨ 09 Jamie Maclaren Forward ¨ ¨ 10 Henrique Forward Grab a pen and write down your own SUBSTITUTES record of the game ¨ ¨ 11 Jean Carlos Solozano Forward ¨ ¨ 13 Defender Here are our previous Matches against the Roar. Next Round the full ladder will be available. ¨ ¨ 14 Daniel Bowles Defender ¨ ¨ OFF Date For Against Venue Result Season Stage 15 James Donachie Defender ¨ ¨ 16 Devante Clut Midfielder 27/10/2012 1 0 A W 2013 League ¨ ¨ 17 Matt Mckay Midfielder 09/12/2012 1 0 H W 2013 League ON ¨ ¨ 19 Jack Hingert Defender 20/01/2013 2 1 A W 2013 League ¨ ¨ 20 Shannon Brady Midfielder 12/04/2013 2 0 H W 2013 Semi-Final ¨ ¨ 21 Goalkeeper OFF 22/11/2013 1 3 A L 2014 League ¨ ¨ 22 Thomas Broich Midfielder 07/02/2014 1 1 H D 2014 League ¨ ¨ 23 Dimitri Petratos Forward ON 05/04/2014 1 1 H D 2014 League ¨ ¨ 26 Nick D'agostino Forward 04/05/2014 1 2 A L 2014 Grand Final ¨ ¨ 27 Mitch Hore Midfielder 03/12/2014 0 1 H L 2015 League ¨ ¨ 28 Brandon Borrello Forward OFF 08/03/2015 0 1 A L 2015 League ¨ ¨ 31 Matthew Schmidt Defender 25/03/2015 4 1 A W 2015 League ¨ ¨ 32 George Lambadaridis Midfielder ON Legend H=Home; A=Away; W=Win; L=Loss; D=Draw ¨ ¨ 33 Luke Devere Defender ¨ ¨ 37 Abrahim Yango Forward PROUDLY brought to you by ¨ ¨ 39 Thomas Bilic Goalkeeper OFF Coach Assistant Coaches John ALOISI Ross ALOISI Jason KEARTON ON

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Story by Domenic Trimboli @dom_trimbolI & Christian Layland @Layles89 FLIPPING THE SCRIPT

With an exciting mix of talented youngsters and experienced campaigners, THE Wanderers’ Westfield W-League team will be looking to make their mark on the competition this season

espite some courageous performances The midfielder links up with the Wanderers fresh last season, including a memorable off an impressive season with the Seattle Reign, 2-1 win in the Sydney Derby, the where she captained the side to a National Women’s WINTERS IS DWanderers were unable to string together a Soccer League premiership. COMING consistent patch of form and finished ten points The 26-year-old joins compatriot Kendall American star shy of a place in the top four. Johnson and Canada’s Carmelina Moscato as the Keelin Winters The Wanderers will be focused on getting off Wanderers’ three international visa signings. headlines to winning start when they kick-off their 2015/16 Australian representatives including Ellie this season’s Westfield W-League campaign with an away trip Carpenter, Eliza Ammendolia, Jada Whyman, Tara W-League squad to Adelaide United on Saturday 17 October, before Pender and Teagan Micah have also joined the hosting Brisbane Roar at Marconi Stadium on club, while foundation players Linda O’Neill and Sunday 25 October. Rachael Soutar will lace up for their fourth seasons Head coach Norm Boardman has brought in for the Wanderers. eight new faces to a squad that is headlined by In a boost for fans, the W-League side will play returning American superstar Keelin Winters. two of their games as A-League curtain raisers this Winters, last year’s Wanderers’ Player of the season, including the much-anticipated Sydney Derby Season and Golden Boot recipient, has signed on for on Sunday 1 November, before the men’s side take on her second consecutive season in the Red & Black. Perth Glory the same afternoon.

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Story by Fox Football @Foxfootball Fox Football Fix Mitch Nichols and Scott Jamieson chat to fox football about joining the wanderers

O coach has been busier than Tony Both want to take their careers to a new level Popovic in the transfer market in at the fledgling club, with Jamieson revealing the the off-season. unique way ‘Popa’ closed the deal with him. Hard to NThe Wanderers boss has revamped his “You look at it from outside and you think if a resist Once squad at Wanderland, but despite the turnover, coach is trying to get a player to his club, you’d Popovic came there was no hesitation from the likes of think he’d tell them how good they are, how wanted calling Jamieson established A-League stars Scott Jamieson he is,” Jamieson told foxsports.com.au. and Nichols had and Mitch Nichols to try their luck “But while Popovic made me feel wanted, he no hesitation at Western Sydney. told me a few home truths in what he sees in me,

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20 The Wanderer Round 1 Back to Contents Page Fox Football what I can do better and what I haven’t been doing well. “That, for me, was a clear point of (realising) this is where I want to be. If this man sees so much improvement in me, and had been watching me, and is telling the truth to me even when I haven’t signed, he was a massive part of (the decision to move).” Jamieson, who has also played for Adelaide United and Sydney FC, is looking to return to his best after a trying season at Perth Glory, hoping Popovic can push him to “boundaries we Mark Bosnich TARA RUSHTON haven’t been before”. After a tumultuous season last year, the The brand new season - the slate is wiped The 26-year-old admits that deep pressure is on to produce this round. I clean, an injection of new legs, new down, he was aware of some of the home believe they can but the most important personalities and playing group that ‘gels’ - truths Popovic told him. thing is they need to believe they can. I sounds rather unstoppable. The major over- “In a way (yeah, I knew), but it’s think they will get to the Top 6 but will not haul at the Wanderers will serve them well different telling yourself and getting finish top of the table. I hope I’m wrong this season, as well as a more possession told by someone who is so well and they do. based, attacking style of play. respected by me and the whole football community,” he added. “It meant so much to me – people I spoke to Popa on the phone and that This club is not about being a safe club in say ‘don’t you want to be told how good was cleared up, it was the only place I terms of doing well and improving slowly you are’ but I actually welcomed and wanted to come.” – this club is about winning. appreciated so much that he said: ‘I see Nichols says he has no regrets about “That was made aware to me early so much in you, and this is where I think his move abroad, but with a two-year on in a pre-season friendly against I can get you’.” deal at the Wanderers, he wants to be Mount Druitt, when a big crowd from Nichols is also looking to rediscover, “dominating games in the front third” for the RBB turned up. and then exceed, form he displayed in the side this season. “I realised then that this club is different, his early days at Brisbane Roar and Jamieson adds that the club is special, it’s something that I’ve wanted. Melbourne Victory. the perfect place to move because it “The pressures aren’t as great out He admits once Western Sydney demands success. west (in Perth); the expectations and came calling, there was no question “Success is demanded by our fans. pressures here, is everything I want.” about his next move. “I know where I need to be and Popa has been pushing me to get there,” he KICK OFF FRIDAYS told foxsports.com.au. “I need someone to push me; I let LIVE AT 7:00PM EDT myself down last year at Perth. I had a Adam Peacock is joined bad injury and missed half the season, but by regular panellists John I needed to be somewhere where I had Kosmina and Andy Harper goals, to get myself right physically and to preview the upcoming mentally for a big year. weekend action ahead of “I didn’t know what was happening the big Friday night game in Japan (with Cerezo Osaka), but once

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Follow Scott on Twitter @ScottJamieson Take Five Scott Jamieson is in the hot seat for this edition of the Wanderers Take Five

In the movie of your life who would play you? Ronan Keating If you were stranded on an island, what would be your three essential items? A music box, an iPod and sunglasses What would you buy with your last $50? A form guide and tab ticket Who was your favourite player to watch when you were growing up and why? David Beckham just because of his football ability and his celebrity profile. He was someone that a lot of people What is your favourite looked up to and watched holiday destination? What was your favourite TV I’m going off the places I’ve show as a child? been to as an adult rather The Highlights Show than as a kid so I would What is your most treasured probably say Bali or Thailand If you were to go to Maccas, possession? What kind of things do you what is your usual order? At the moment my mobile phone like to do when you're not I haven’t had Maccas in a long time. It Who is your favourite musician? training or playing football? used to be a McChicken Meal and the Chris Brown I like hanging out and just chilling time before that it was a Big Mac Meal What is your favourite film What is Your signature meal? If you were on X-Factor what and actor? My signature meal that I cook is a good song would you audition with? Law Abiding Citizen is my favourite film and pasta dish. The signature meal I love to eat I would audition with Loyal by my favourite actor is Denzel Washington is a good chicken schnitzel Chris Brown

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Story by Jacob Windon @JacobWindon Heartland of football The Granville and District Soccer Football Association is a key organisation in making Western Sydney the heartland of football.

he GDSFA is a key organisation in making The Granville District and its surrounding Western Sydney the heartland of football. community has produced its fair share of players Through building and maintaining a in over 113 years of service, including the likes A RICH Tstrong, community based association with a keen of Harry Kewell and other former Socceroos HISTORY The focus on grassroots development, the GDSFA is such as Ray Marshall, the Garside and Granville District a pivotal player in orchestrating the Wanderers Henderson brothers. is synonymous philosophy in conjunction with local clubs. The afore-mentioned names compromise with football in Whilst the association was formally recognised what is recognised as one of Football in NSW’s Western Sydney in 1902, the earliest history of the GDSFA can be golden eras: the late 1940’s and 50’s in which traced back twenty years previous when a group of Granville was known as the major footballing Scottish steelworkers from the Clyde area, together force in the Sydney area. with English and Welsh migrants, formed the Such an era provides the foundation for football Granville Soccer Club. in Western Sydney to truly prosper, culminating The black and white colours displayed on the in what we now know as the home of football strip are still synonymous with football in the in NSW and the breeding ground for the next Granville District today. generation of Socceroos.

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