SIXTY-SEVENTH EDITION X SEASON 2016/17 X ROUND 20 VS SYDNEY FC PrOUDLY BRoUGHT TO YOU BY CONTENTS Everything you need for tonight's match FEATURES SIXTY-SEVENTH EDITION REGULAR X SEASON 2016/17 X ROUND 20 VS SYDNEY FC COLUMNS OPEN LETTER: FROM THE FOUNDATION CAPTAIN 5 WARM UP 6 FIVE THINGS: TOP FIVE A DERBY OF DIFFERENCE DERBY GOALS 11 XXX PLAYERS TO WATCH: PROUDLY BROUGHT TO YOU BY 8 ASPROPOTAMITIS VS Story by Joshua Thomas WILKINSON 13 WANDERERS READY FOR THE WANDERER ASIA'S BEST 15 The views in this publication are not necessarily the views of the TODAY'S MATCH 16 NRMA Insurance Western Sydney FOX FOOTBALL FIX 20 Wanderers FC. Material in this publication is copyrighted and may ANTH'S SPOT only be reproduced with the written THE DIFFERENCE 22 permission from the Club. 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It’s a very undefeated so far but it’s a way they want to play against special moment in the season. great chance now for the Sydney FC and he’ll have left I’ve got some fond memories Wanderers to break that no stone unturned in terms of Mitsubishi Electric, proudly supporting of playing in the Sydney Derby. streak and kick-start a big run their preparation. Scoring in the first Red home. He’ll have the boys The Western Sydney Wanderers FC. & Black Derby win was Having played in a couple motivated for sure, though tepping out in the something I’ll never forget. of Sydney Derbies myself I they’ll know themselves how Sydney Derby is Every now and again know Popa will have the boys big of a game it is already. It’s Svery special. that photo pops up of the fired up, not only because it’s definitely going to be a battle. Classy Red Classy Grey Everyone says it’s no celebration behind the goals a Derby but also because it’s And as they say, anything different to any other game with the fans and it brings back a such a crucial point in the can happen in a Derby. but it definitely is. the emotion from that night. season. It’d be a massive game The Derby has now been Heading into tonight’s game, even if it wasn’t a Derby. MICHAEL BEAUCHAMP built up so much and there’s so Sydney FC have obviously This week, Popa would’ve FOUNDATION CAPTAIN For more information on the pedestal fan range For more information on our products please scan the QR Code. Phone:1300 280 625 please visit www.mitsubishielectric.com.au FOLLOW @WSWANDERERSFC #WSW 5 WARM-UP WITH HAYDEN FOXE COURTESY OF ANDREW HOWE @ANDYHOWE_STATTO ROM A COACHING perspective, we have try to prepare the same way for every match Flooked at Sydney FC from all angles in with minor tweaking to the finer details about our preparation this week. They have a the opposition but there’s just something extra strong squad and have been good so far this special about the week leading up to a Derby. season and deserve to be on top of the table It’s East vs West and there’s a lot of with the results they have been getting. friends, families and work colleagues that We can take a lot of confidence going into are divided over the derby. the match tonight based on the way that we Many of the boys have already played in the pass and move the ball and how we performed derby this season and know what to expect from in the last Derby where we caused Sydney FC a match of this importance. Our expectation many problems. It finished 0-0 that night, we levels are always set very high and meet that of limited them to very few chances and played a our supporters and we as players and staff openly terrific brand of football in which given in any embraced that. This expectation urges our players other game would have secured us the 3 points. on and helps them prepare for games like this. As a team we have taken a lot of The players will get nervous tonight before positives from our recent performances kick-off as will all the Red and Black supporters and will use them in tonight’s match. before such a big game. They won’t fear the The Sydney Derby is always the first game nervous energy from around the stadium ARCONI SMASHED RIVALS APIA the players, supporters and everyone involved but will embrace it to put a performance that MLeichhardt 5-0 on this day in 1989 with the Wanderers look forward to when everyone associated with Western Sydney in the early stages of the last ever winter the fixtures are released. As you all know, we Wanderers can be proud of. Australian national league season. Marconi-APIA ‘Italian derbies’ were generally fiercely contested affairs and VOTE FOR YOUR EARN by the late 1980s Marconi were pulling +500 ahead in the clubs’ all-time head-to-head MAN POINTS record. Marconi’s goals were scored by OF THE Macedonian marvel Zlatko Nastevski (three goals) and the late and great Ian Gray (two) that day. Nastevski went on to MATCH score 30 national league goals for Marconi THE PLAYER WITH THE MOST POINTS AT in 1989, a record tally for a calendar year THE END OF FEBRUARY WILL BE CROWNED TH MINUTE MEMBERS’ PLAYER OF THE MONTH VOTING OPENS AT THE 70 that holds to this day (Bruno Fornaroli’s VOTING CLOSES AT 10:00PM 25 goals during 2016 was the third DOWNLOAD THE APP highest goal tally for a year). 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You just need to stay on the All of my favourite Derby memories right track and keep the positive centre around the atmosphere that is things in mind. You can’t look at created at the game. things in a negative way and you To see how far football has need to keep focused on what the come in Australia is remarkable; end goals is, and eventually things seeing little kids running around in will turn around. Wanderers shirts, babies, parents I’m now coaching and it’s and whole families repping the Red important to make sure that & Black is a great feeling. players have belief in themselves I’m looking forward to us going into matches. When things hopefully upsetting Sydney FC are going wrong in football or life, for their first loss of the season we tend to put ourselves down tonight so we can paint the city though it’s crucial that you have Red & Black! the right mentality. Go Wanderers! 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