FOOTBALL FEATURE ON MARVELOUS MELBOURNE JAMES KALAFITIDIS MAGYARS Australia’s Favourite Football Fanzine and Even Bigger In Ningaloo! Still $4 Vol. 6 No. 9 Monday 19th April 2010 INTERVIEW WITH MELBOURNE HEART COACH JOHN VAN’T SCHIP INTERVIEW WITH MATILDA SALLY SHIPPARD YET ANOTHER GW EXCLUSIVE PHOTO: GORDON BENNETT DUNKERLEY STRIKES BACK! BUT REBELS RESPOND WITH MORE LEAKED INFO SLAVIA / ALL THE WEEKEND PREMIER RESULTS Asian Champions League goalweekly.com Reds through to ACL last sixteen Soccer Hotlines 3 Adelaide United FC has quali- Latin Scene 4 fied for the next phase of the AFC Euro Scene 5 Champions League 2010 after es- Blast From The Past 7 caping with a nil-all draw against London Calling 12 the Pohang Steelers at the Steel- FFV Results 16 yard in Korea in Match Day 5 of the Tasmania 20 competition. Needing a point to guarantee a spot in NSW 21 the Round of 16, the Reds found them- Sth Aust 22 selves under siege against the reigning West Aust 23 ACL champions for the majority of the VPL 26 90 minutes, but a gritty resolve coupled with a host of missed chances from the home side saw United progress through to the next round. United remains unbeaten against Po- hang in the teams’ four encounters af- ter the scoreless draw, the record even Goal! Weekly is available every more impressive by the fact that the K- Monday from all good newsagents League giants are yet to fi nd a way past across Australia. goalkeeper Eugene Galekovic and score (Tuesday in some territories) against the Reds. Front cover: HAL Grand Final winners The result, which also sends Pohang into the next round, keeps the Reds at the Publisher: Alimental Enterprises Pty Ltd top of Group H with the fi nal match day PO Box 142 Port Melbourne VIC 3207 of the Group Stage to decide whether Ph: 03 9551 7538 United can uphold its position and gain Fax: 03 9551 7538 a home fi xture in the one off Round of 16 encounter. Printer: The Age Print Centre The only sour note to come out of the Beijing’s Ross Maurice glides past Victory’s Surat Sukha in Match Day 5 ACL action. PHOTO: SYDNEY LOW 31 - 69 Western Avenue Reds’ achievement is that Lucas Pan- Tullamarine Vic 3043 telis, Daniel Mullen and Adam Hughes sides. passing move resulted in Victory shot on the deadlock. will all be unavailable for the fi nal group Victory started with Carlos Hernandez goal by full back Evan Berger. His coach, Hong Yuanshuo, thought that Distribution: stage match at home against China’s supporting Robbie Kruse and Nikola By half-time the only other incident from perhaps Griffi ths was trying too hard to Shandong Luneng in a fortnight after Mrdja in attack and Surat Sukha in de- the home fans’ perspective was a trip on repeat his goal against Victory the last Fairfax Media Publication Solutions they each received their second yellow fensive midfi eld. Robbie Kruse on the edge of the area in time these teams met. Tel: 13 23 01 card of the competition. But it was the visitor which dominated injury time. Coach Ernie Merrick argued his young- -DOM RINALDO the fi rst half with a series of sweeping The second half was little more excit- sters did not let him down, and that after News Room: 03 9551 7538 Advertising: 03 9551 7538 moves which resulted in fi ve corner ing with the Victory failing once again to a fl at fi rst 25 minutes, Victory improved kicks and a number of shots which tested produce direct shots on goal until sub- through the game, but they struggled to Email: [email protected] the Victory defence, though Mitchell stitute Marvin Angulo popped up with a keep possession. Letters: [email protected] Melbourne Victory Langerak did not have many direct saves blistering drive from wide on the left in He stressed that Beijing was a good Web: www.goalweekly.com in stalemate with to make. 74 minutes. team. Editor: Costa Koutropoulos Victory was virtually unable to mount The keeper spilled the effort, but Mrdja Nevertheless Victory was unable to cov- Art Director: Carlos Ibarra Beijing Guoan cohesive moves and attacks were infre- could not react quick enough to put away er the loss of so many of its top players. Design: Ivan Andreevski quent. the loose ball. With Kawasaki Frontale winning in Melbourne Victory bowed out of Robbie Kruse ran through in the 20th Earlier Beijing’s Australian striker, Joel Japan it would not have mattered had Goal! Weekly endeavours to be as accurate the Asian Champions League af- minute and the Beijing keeper Yang Zhi Griffi ths, had a clear chance but headed Victory taken all three points and so the as possible with everything it publishes. ter a scoreless draw against Bei- seemed to make contact with his feet wide from a cross by Yan Xiangchuang. Champions League campaign sputtered The Fair Trading Act 1999 requires Goal! jing Guoan at Etihad Stadium on rather than the ball, but there was no re- Griffi ths’ movement occasionally trou- to a disappointing conclusion. Weekly to disclaim any belief in the truth Wednesday night in front of 6394 sponse from the referee. bled the Victory backline and Erivaldo - ROY HAY or falsity of information which is supplied hardy supporters from the two Twenty-seven minutes elapsed before a also threatened but neither could break to it and which is published in other than editorial content. GW Hall of Fame - Contributors Aritro Adebin, Nat Adamopoulos, Mark Boric, Bruce Darnell, Lee Galiardi, Russ Coup for Hume as Ozdenak signs Gibbs, Andrew Fisher, Roy Hay, Markian Jaworsky, George Katsamboukas, Eddie After a successful start to the 2010 Ozdenak, represented the Turkish na- Seoul FC where he worked as an assis- 6 rounds. We will continue our ‘together Krncevic, Jarrod Ellis, Francis Fields, season Hume City once again tional team 40 times whilst playing for tant to Turkish Legend Senol Gunes for everyone achieves more’ approach to John Fotinos, Matt Galea, Russ Gibbs, proved to the football world that it Galatasaray between 1966 - 1976. the past three seasons. running this club, which is eager for long Bart Hulley, Adam Husseini, Peter Katho- is leaving no stone unturned to ce- Yasin Ozdenak said, “I am extremely Hume City Communications Man- term sustainability and success. los, Jacob Kagi, John Kyrou, Sebastian ment itself as a long term fixture in excited to come to a club with an unbe- ager Ezel Hikmet said,”We are ex- Kipman,George Kouroumalis, Michael the Victorian Premier League, after Lilikakis, Josip Loncaric, Craig MacKen- lievable drive for success. I aim to share tremely happy with this appointment. I zie, Alex Milic, Ashley Morrison, Adam announcing a major coup during with the club my knowledge which I don’t think anyone can question Yasin North, Jeremy O’Neil, Teo Pellizzeri, the week that former Galatasaray have built over my playing and coach- Ozdenak’s experience and credibilty. Kieran Pender, Walter Pless, Tony Perso- and Turkish international goal- ing careers. We will be revising every- With the support of our supporters, and glia, Leroy Robinson, Julius Ross, Roger keeper Yasin Ozdenak will be ap- thing from the bottom up, and ensuring the Hume Community we aim to con- Sleeman, Mike Salter, Luke Sheehan, pointed as the club’s new Director that all facets of the club are operating tinue our quest become a stable and rec- Con Stamocostas, George Stogiannou, of Football. effi ciently. I believe I have a lot to offer ognised club in the VPL. Ozdenak will Reuben Schembri, Lachlan Taylor, Elias Simopoulos, Michal Skrodsky, Addy Ozdenank comes to Hume with an im- Australian football.” oversee the operational duties of the club Wetzler, Bruno Zovko. pressive CV having played in the same Ozdenak’s coaching career is as im- and work hand in hand with all of our New York Cosmos team as legends Pele, pressive as his playing career, working as coaches. Andy Vlahos’ position as senior Photographers Franz Beckenbauer, Carlos Alberto, an assistant coach to Mircea Lucescu be- coach is in no way affected by this ap- Adam Butler, Therese Duffy, Daniel Giorgio Chinaglia, Johan Neeskens, tween 1999 - 2003 during Galatasaray’s pointment made by the club. Vlahos is Flis, Dean Grant, Carlos Furtado, Geoff Werner Roth and Rick Davis, during his most successful ever period winning the our senior coach and has been doing an Jones, Peter Kakalias, Darryl Ken- stint in the NASL during the late 70’s, European Super Cup against European amazing job thus far, after taking the club nedy, Paul Lau, Lee McCormick, Mark McGeady, Brett McDonald, Anita Milas, before also coaching them in the early powerhouse Real Madrid. to a preliminary fi nal in 2009 as well as Turkish legend Yasin Osdenak Peter Psarros, John Punshon, Brett Rob- 80’s. Ozdenak ararives at Hume City from starting the 2010 season undefeated after son, Steve Starek, George Stogiannou. 2 Monday 19th April 2010 SOCCER HOTLINES | FFV Boardroom Battles goalweekly.com Dunkerley strikes back By Craig MacKenzie FFV president Tony Dunkerley wasted no time in reacting to last week’s lead story in Goal! Weekly by sending a rallying letter to the federation’s stakeholders. Dunkerley’s letter said that an urgent board meeting would be convened to “discuss these issues, in order to resolve this matter once and for all.” The letter was prompted by a series of claims that at least three members of the board have lost confi dence in Dunkerley who was elected as president in 2006 and announced last week that he would seek another term.