2018 Round 14 Wollongong Wolves FC VS Sydney FC
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KICKOFF vs ROUND 14 WIN STADIUM 7PM SATURDAY 9TH JUNE 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 14 Support the organisations, that support our Wencounter with Sydney FC. club, that supports our community. This is the first Saturday night football match Through companies such as Stop, Slow, Traffic the Wolves have played at WIN Stadium – The Control NSW we are building to a really exciting Wolf Den, in a long time and it promises to be future. a great match. Our first grade side boasts a great mix of This year the competition has been the closest talent, experience and youth and are sitting and tightest it has been for many seasons with well positioned for a strong late season surge all 12 teams still a chance of securing spots for into finals contention. the finals series. Currently we sit in 10th spot but are only 2 points outside a top 5 berth. It’s Our U20s have proved the surprise packet that close. Plenty of football left in the season. of the season, playing fantastic football and Plenty to play for. A finals spot is still ours for currently sitting 3rd on the competition table. the taking. A great testament to the future talent we are producing. AND IT STARTS AGAIN TONIGHT. GO YOU MIGHTY WOLVES!!! Our U18s have some ground to make up but can still sneak into the finals with a strong The success we have experienced as a club second half of the season showing. And the over the last 2 years has been significantly majority of this squad will still be eligible for bolstered by the strong support we receive U18s next season. Plus we have also had the from our local sponsors. Without the passion opportunity to blood some of our U16s giving and backing of these loyal and proud sponsors them a taste of higher honors. we would not have been in a position to reinvigorate our great club and lay the We hope you thoroughly enjoy today’s matches foundation for the most exciting and rewarding and thank you all for your ongoing loyalty, times for us and for football across our entire support and passion. region in the future. Nothing inspires our players more than playing From our SAP programs, through to our Juniors at home, at WIN Stadium – The Wolf Den, in and right up to our Seniors, organisations front of the BEST AND PROUDEST FOOTBALL right across our community and throughout FANS IN THE COUNTRY. the Illawarra and South Coast have got right WE ARE THE WOLLONGONG WOLVES! behind the Wollongong Wolves and helped us BEWARE – OUR PACK IS GATHERING. record remarkable achievements We would like to make a special mention of today’s Match Day Sponsor – STOP, SLOW, TRAFFIC CONTROL NSW. Traffic Management Solutions for EVERY requirement! With over 20 years experience in designing and implementing unique, operational, site specific Traffic Management Plans, Vehicle Movement Plans and Pedestrian Management Plans, no one provides better service or value than STOP, SLOW TRAFFIC CONTROL NSW. THE COMPLETE TRAFFIC CONTROL COMPANY. 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 ydney F.C. venture to Parramatta FC in Round 13. The best win was SWIN Stadium for the 5-2 and worst loss was 6-1. On six occasions, 2018 Round 14 encounter the team was held scoreless which was the to take on Wollongong competition’s third highest tally. The best result Wolves for the fourth time sequence without defeat was three - win, draw, in the Mens 1 competition, win, Rounds 9 -11. The team’s number of goals after the very first meeting scored per game match average was 1.54 and at Lambert Park concluded goals conceded were 2.36. with Sydney FC winning 2-1, William Mutch with Six players were selected in the ‘Team Of The a brace (SFC) and Patrick Antelmi (WW), being Week’ for their deeds on the pitch were Jean the goal scorers. Zapata (3), Tom Heward-Belle (2), John Iredale The Robert Stanton coached Sydney FC Youth (2), William Mutch (1), Mitchell Evans (1) and outfit are a speedy attacking side and the Patrick Flottman (1). Andrea Agamemnonos match with the Wolves should display a fair was one player nominated for ‘Goal Of the smattering of goals if the previous matches are Week’, in Round 22 versus Wollongong Wolves. anything to go by. THE MATCH-UP THE OPPOSITION TODAY - SYDNEY FC Sydney FC and the Wolves have met three New players to the 2018 roster include Hassan times in the Mens 1 competition with the Jalloh and Luke Ivanovic from Bonnyrigg White Wolves having a two to one win ratio. The Eagles, former Shark Jeremy Cox, Joel King and Wolves have scored the greater number of Patrick Scibilio from the Australian Institute goals, nine to four. The best win was 2-1 for Of Sport and Jackson Bandiera, ex Western Sydney and 6-1 for the Wolves. Sydney Wanderers. In a midseason move, This year Sydney FC and the Wolves are in Jalloh has departed for the Northern Tigers 12th and 10th positions respectively. The best Sydney FC last won honours by winning results in the competition so far are 3-1 (SFC) in promotion and the Mens 2 Premiership and Round 1 and 2-1 (WW) with each team scoring Championship in 2016 after the club was and conceding 17 and 12 and 27 and 23 goals formed in 2004. The Grand Final winning team respectively. was Mitchell Evans, Brendan Curtis, Liam McGing, Nicola Kuleski, Daniel Araujo, Juan The last meeting was in Round 3 at Lambert Zapata, Bai Antoniou, Andreas Agamemnonos, Park with the Wolves accounting for Sydney Christopher Arditti, Charles Lokoli Ngoy and F.C by two goals to one. Jalloh scored the first Matthew Green, with substitutes being Sam goal before Ryan Ensor and Peter Simonoski McIlhatton, Daniel Maskin and Emmanuel accounted for the Wolves’ goals, the first for Gonzalez. The scorers in the 4-1 win over each in the season. Western Sydney Wanderers were Antoniou, In the previous five matches the result Arditti, Zapata and Lokoli Ngoy. sequence for Sydney F.C. is draw, loss, win, loss In the 2017 Sydney FC won its first game after and loss, while the Wolves is draw, loss, win, two matches had been played. It was a 5-2 win draw and loss. over Parramatta. The team concluded its first The scorers of the previous goal for each team season in Mens 1 in eleventh place on fourteen coming into this match were Jordan Swidel points from six wins and two draws, scoring and Peter Simonoski. The top scorers are and conceding thirty-four and fifty-two goals, Simonoski and Jeremy Cox with four and seven with a goal difference of minus 18, which was goals respectively. better than four other clubs. The top scorer The last round results were Sydney F.C. was was Charles Lokoli Ngoy with seven goals defeated 2-0 by Sutherland Sharks and the while eleven other players’ contributed to the Wolves were 4-1 by Rockdale City Suns. scorecard together with the addition of an own goal. Lokoli Ngoy also scored the quickest PLAYERS TO WATCH goal, which came in the ninth minute versus Jeremy Cox started off the season with a hat 6 NPLNSW.COM.AU trick against Hakoah Sydney City East and he short reverse pass to Jalloh who burst into will most probably be thereabouts in goal the penalty area. From his position left of the scoring range. Captain Sam McIllhatton is goal frame he pounced. His right-footed shot Sydney FC’s midfield general and he has been eluded Baldacchino and a diving custodian, on the scoresheet at times during the season. Pasfield, lodging into the goal inside the near They will be keyed up to cause damage. post. The Wolves’ defensive rock at the back is Four minutes later, Ensor, positioned on the Michael Robinson and his duties are done to edge of the penalty area received the ball out a high standard and he will be there to cut out of the opposition defence.