KICKOFF ROUND 19 • BELMORE SUNDAY SPORTS GROUND V 23RD JULY 2017 FIXTURES TEAM LISTS FIRST GRADE MATCH PREVIEW 5PM TEAM OF THE WEEK WELCOME #PS4NPLNSW FROM THE opportunities with clubs that are household names. We are committed to developing players and helping them to move on to bigger and better things and we are proud to be a club that enables progression. Another great achievement in the Olympic family is youngster Noah Botic’s selection in the Joey’s squad that is currently participating in the AFF U15 Youth Championship in Thailand. The boys have qualified for the semi-finals and Botic has had some excellent performances, including scoring two goals against Indonesia and one against Myanmar, making him the fourth highest goal scorer in the competition so far and the highest in the Australian team. elcome back to Belmore Sports Ground for Congratulations Noah! WRound 19 of our 2017 campaign, brought to you by our Match Day Sponsor, Nature’s Best We’d like to take the opportunity to thank our Belfield! We’re taking on APIA Leichhardt Tigers sponsors for their unwavering support this in today’s Match of the Round, which I’m sure season and for making our club run smoothly will be a great challenge for both teams. from SAP right through to First Grade. After a disappointing loss last week to league Thank you to the members of our Olympic leaders Blacktown City FC, the boys are ready to family for coming to show their support for the kick back into gear as we race to remain in the club each week. top five for finals football. I’d also like to thank our mascots and ball boys from Hurlstone Park Wanderers for participating We’ve shown some excellent progress this in our match day. We hope everyone enjoys season, with a goal of youth development in our their half-time entertainment! first team and player progression. We’re very proud of Max Burgess’ move to Portugese club, Enjoy the afternoon and we look forward to Uniao da Madeira, and are excited to announce seeing everyone at our final home game for that youngster and Olympic native, Tass the 2017 season on Sunday 6th August against Mourdoukoutas, is currently overseas to explore Hakoah Sydney City East. Thanks to Hurlstone Park Wanderers for participating in our Match Day: Lucas Wong Charlie Earthrowl William Browne Michael Dragatis Jonah Younes Jonathon Karvouniaris Amy Nice Aidan Skelsey Otto Grimes Ruth Bardsley Billy Moss Owen Hume Penelope Calabria Hudson Anderson Lewis Lowry Enzo Calabria Connor Howard Amy Yoneda Kodi Kavanagh Jake Kennelly Toby Moss 2 Website: sydneyolympicfc.com.au Email: [email protected] Phone: (02) 9787 7890 Twitter: @SydneyOlympicFC Facebook: fb.com/SydneyOlympicFC Instagram: @SydneyOlympicFC CORPORATE PARTNERS CLUB PRINICIPAL PARTNER APPAREL PARTNERS S B # NAME S B # NAME 1 HENDERSON Paul 1 NECEVSKI Ivan 3 DE MARIGNY Jake 2 MILLGATE Nathan 4 WHITESIDE Tom 3 GALIMI Paul 5 SPYRAKIS Yianni 4 SYMONS Joshua 6 STAMATELLIS Mitchell 7 O'CONNELL Sean 7 ANGEL William 8 BICZO Corey 8 MADONIS Jason 9 WEST Matthew 9 PAVICEVIC Radovan 10 PARISI Franco 10 MAKRILLOS Peter 11 MURRAY Jordan 11 AN Jinya 12 COX Dominic 12 KUBOKI Yu 13 D'APUZZO David 14 RAHIMI Mohammad 14 TUXFORD Blake 15 MALFARA Sebastian 15 MUATA-MARLOW Themba 16 TIMOTHEOU George 16 SYMONS Sean 19 BURGESS Darcy 17 VLASTELICA Adrian 23 MOURDOUKOUTAS Tass 18 UCCHINO Adrian 24 GLIGOR Hagi 19 LUNDY Brandon 25 YOULLEY Liam 20 SEKIYA Tasuku 33 TSATTALIOS Niko 21 STEPHAN Cameron 99 KATSETIS Paul 22 TURNBULL Luke 23 COOK Mathew Head Coach: Danial Cummins Head Coach: Gorka Etxeberria Coach: Bronislav Jasiczek Von Castello Assistant Coach: Peter Zorbas Assistant Coach: John Calleja Goalkeeper Coach: Stacy Alogdellis Managers: Sergio Bucciarelli Team Manager: Parry Hatzi and Emanuele Ziino Gear Steward: Ben Viviani Head of Senior Football: Billy McColl Referee: B. Abraham Assistant Referees: K. Robinson & T. Lee 4th Official: A. Verma FIRST GRADE NPLNSW.COM.AU MATCH ydney Olympic will take on APIA Leichhardt The pressure is on Olympic but will they rise up STigers on Sunday desperate to fix their to secure their finals fate? spiralling season. Sitting pretty in third only weeks ago, Olympic has paid the price for a run of rough results and are only just clinging onto a finals spot. The Belmore boys suffered a 4-0 loss at the hands of league leaders Blacktown City last round and will need a much improved performance if they are to defeat second placed APIA. APIA come into the match with renewed confidence after defeating Parramatta FC 6-0. Striker Jordan Murray found his eye for goal scoring three goals in nine minutes. With five teams all within three points of each other on the table the margin for error is minimal. 1ST GRADE - PLAYSTATION 4 NPL NSW MEN’S POS TEAM P W D L F A GD PTS 1 Blacktown City FC 18 14 3 1 41 16 25 45 2 APIA Leichhardt Tigers FC 18 13 0 5 41 16 25 39 3 Rockdale City Suns FC 18 10 4 4 36 24 12 34 4 Manly United FC 18 10 3 5 41 28 13 33 5 Sydney Olympic FC 18 9 4 5 26 19 7 31 6 Sydney United 58 FC 18 9 3 6 32 20 12 30 7 Wollongong Wolves FC 18 9 1 8 23 24 -1 28 8 Hakoah Sydney City East FC 18 5 5 8 26 29 -3 20 9 Bonnyrigg White Eagles FC 18 4 4 10 26 43 -17 16 10 Sutherland Sharks FC 18 4 0 14 24 47 -23 12 11 Sydney FC 18 5 1 12 26 40 -14 10 B. Abraham 12 Parramatta FC 18 1 2 15 16 52 -36 5 K. Robinson & T. Lee A. Verma 5 FIRST GRADE #PS4NPLNSW Blacktown City FC 4 - Sydney Olympic FC 0 at Lily’s Football Centre A James Andrew hat trick and a dominant second half performance has helped PlayStation®4 National Premier Leagues NSW Men’s league leaders Blacktown City to a 4-0 victory over Sydney Olympic at Lily’s Football Centre on Sunday afternoon. The former Sutherland attacker was brought on at half time in a double substitution and laid on the opening goal for Joey Gibbs before claiming a fifteen-minute treble to keep City six points ahead of second-placed APIA Leichhardt. The result is Blacktown’s seventh league victory in a row and leaves the Seven Hills outfit in pole position to claim their ninth premiership with Mark Crittenden’s side likely to seal their first trophy of the season with a win over APIA Leichhardt when the two challengers meet in round 21. APIA Leichhardt Tigers 6 - Parramatta FC 0 at Lambert Park APIA Leichhardt Tigers has returned to the winners circle with a dominant 6-0 PlayStation®4 National Premier Leagues NSW Men’s victory against Parramatta FC at Lambert Park on Sunday. Jordan Murray was the star of the performance after the young striker scored a hat trick in only nine minutes in a relentless showing from APIA. An own goal from Parramatta’s Marcus Plataniotis started the APIA onslaught and within 29 minutes the home side had a six goal lead thanks to Murray’s three goals as well as a strike from Josh Symons and a second Parramatta own goal. APIA took their foot off the gas in the second half, but the damage was done as they clinched a vital three points after what has been a tough few weeks for the club. 6 FIRST GRADE NPLNSW.COM.AU 1. HENDERSON 3. DE MARIGNY 4. WHITESIDE 5. SPYRAKIS 6. STAMATELLIS 7. ANGEL 8. MADONIS 9. PAVICEVIC 10. MAKRILLOS 11. AN 12. KUBOKI 15. MALFARA 24. GLIGOR 33. TSATTALIOS 99. KATSETIS 7 WESTFIELD FFA CUP #PS4NPLNSW WESTFIELD FFA CUP 2017 wo enthralling Member Federation v Hyundai and South Australia’s MetroStars respectively, TA-League club matchups, on back-to-back with last season’s semi finalists Canberra Olympic nights, both of which will be broadcast LIVE on FOX heading west to face the Jamie Harnwell coached SPORTS, headline the schedule for the 16 fixtures Sorrento at Percy Doyle Reserve. of this year’s Westfield FFA Cup Round of 32. Night two features the David and Goliath contest Victorian club Heidelberg United will welcome between Brisbane Premier League side Peninsula Perth Glory to Olympic Village on Tuesday 1 Power and reigning Westfield FFA Cup winners August before current PlayStation 4 NPL NSW Melbourne City FC at Dolphin Stadium, Tasmania’s league leaders Blacktown City host the Central entrant Olympia Warriors FC host APIA Leichhardt Coast Mariners the following night at Lily’s Football Tigers, while for the second year in a row Western Centre. Sydney Wanderers FC will meet Wellington Phoenix at Campbelltown Stadium. The last time a Westfield FFA Cup Final Round match was held at Olympic Village a crowd of Queensland’s Wolter Park and Mallawa Sporting 11,372 packed in to watch Heidelberg United, who Complex will both host matches on night three had Greece international Kostas Katsouranis in (2 August) as the home venues of Moreton Bay their line-up, take on Melbourne City FC back in United and Gold Coast City, while Sydney FC will 2015. head to the Top End to face Northern Territory entrant Darwin Rovers FC at Darwin Football The Central Coast Mariners will be looking to Stadium. avoid a repeat of their shock Round of 32 loss to Green Gully last year, while for Blacktown City it is Rounding off the Round of 32 on Wednesday 9 another opportunity to try and topple a Hyundai August is an all-Victorian PS4 NPL blockbuster A-League opponent after coming up short against between former Westfield FFA Cup semi finalists Sydney FC in last year’s Quarter Finals.