SIXTY-FIFTH EDITION X SEASON 2016/17 X ROUND 16 VS NEWCASTLE JETS PrOUDLY BRoUGHT TO YOU BY CONTENTS Everything you need for tonight's match FEATURES REGULAR SIXTY-FIFTH EDITION X SEASON 2016/17 X ROUND 16 VS NEWCASTLE JETS COLUMNS OPEN LETTER: FROM THE W-LEAGUE COACH 5 WARM UP 6 WANDER WOMEN WILLING TO SOAR FIVE THINGS: FIVE WANDER The girls in Red & Black are looking to PROUDLY BROUGHT TO YOU BY 8 WOEN WHO'VE IMPRESSED come home strong. THIS SEASON 11 Story by Joshua Thomas PLAYERS TO WATCH: THE WANDERER FLETCHER VS MAHER AND The views in this publication are BACCUS VS POLJAK 13 not necessarily the views of the NRMA Insurance Western Sydney TODAY'S MATCH 16 Wanderers FC. Material in this FOX FOOTBALL FIX 20 publication is copyrighted and may only be reproduced with the written ANTH'S SPOT permission from the Club. THE DIFFERENCE 22 ADVERTISING CORPORATE NEWS: For all advertising enquiries for UPGRADE YOUR SYDNEY The Wanderer or questions about DERBY XV EXPERIENCE 23 partnership with the club please TAKE FIVE: contact the Corporate Partnerships JADA WHYMAN AND team by sending an email to JAUSHUA SOTIRIO 25 [email protected] YOUNG WANDERERS END SEASON GUARDIAN FUNERALS PHOTOGRAPHY ON A HIGH 18 WANDERCREW MEMBERS All photography in The Wanderer The Wanderers’ Foxtel National Youth OF THE WEEK: is courtesy of Ali Erhan, Getty OUR FOXTEL NATIONAL Images, John Humphreys League run comes to a close. YOUTH LEAGUE Photography and Steve Christo. Story by Jessica Csaszar VOLUNTEERS 26 IN THE COMMUNITY: MACARTHUR ON THE RISE 27 OUR PARTNERS 30 2014/15 CORPORA TE PARTNER VISIT WANDERLAND.COM.AU 3 Air Conditioners SMARTPHONE APP Smartphone App Cool down while the season heats up! 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They all help each other performances have been good definitely improved as a team. on and off the field. and the players understand how We’ve got an identity, we’ve Mitsubishi Electric, proudly supporting It’s important that if you play we want to play. grown as the season’s gone for the Wanderers you take on It’s been a good year for the on and we’ve become more The Western Sydney Wanderers FC. his season has the Club’s values and philosophy, league as a whole. Having four confident in ourselves. been fantastic. The and I think that’s something the international spots for each We just need to keep working T Wanderers are a girls have embraced. team has helped bring in some at things and keep believing in great Club with good values It’s been great to see good quality overseas players what we’re trying to do. and principles. the young ones step up and but its also nice seeing youth The team this season is very perform. This will put them in coming through in all the teams RICHARD BYRNE much a new team, with a mix of good stead for future seasons. as well. It’s really important for COACH young and experienced players. Like most teams we’ve have the future of the game. WESTFIELD W-LEAGUE TEAM For more information on our Wi-Fi app 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 OOKING BACK AND reflecting on our our Community Round and Double Header. Lperformance in the Sydney Derby, I Everyone that is involved with the thought we were excellent. Western Sydney Wanderers are proud to Sydney FC are a good side and have be part of the club and not only is it with the first been scoring a lot of goals this season. One team, the Academy, Youth and women’s of their main strengths is how quick and team as well. dangerous they are in transition to attack. We Today the Westfield W-League team opens defended as a team extremely well and we the Double Header and women’s football has were able to limit them to very few chances, improved out of sight over the past decade. keeping a clean sheet. At the other end we They have gone from strength to strength created and had some wonderful opportunities and it’s great to see women’s football get so to break their run but unfortunately we much support and coverage. missed the final pass or were stopped by the Today is all about coming out and supporting Sydney FC goalkeeper. all aspects of the Club. You get two great football We really controlled and dominated large matches included for the price of one and he Socceroos notched a last-gasp AFC parts of the game and on any other day we playing at Campbelltown Stadium gives TAsian Cup quarter-final win over Iraq would have taken home the three points with us. everyone the opportunity to see the Wanderers on this day in 2011. Australia qualified Moving on from Sydney Derby XIV, today is play in the wider Western Sydney region. fairly comfortably through the group stages of its second Asian Cup finals campaign, held in Qatar, only to come up against then Asian Champions Iraq in VISIT THE WANDERERSSHOP.COM.AU FOR ALL YOUR WANDERERS MERCH the first knockout phase match. Australia dominated the quarter-final tie, but it VOTE FOR YOUR EARN was a battle level at 0-0 all the way til the +500 28th minute of extra time when Western MAN POINTS Suburbs boy Harry Kewell then headed OF THE the ball into the Iraqi net, the game ending 1-0. Current Hyundai A-League players Tim Cahill, David Carney, Brett MATCH Holman, Neil Kilkenny, Matt McKay THE PLAYER WITH THE MOST POINTS AT and Carl Valeri all played that day. The THE END OF JANUARY WILL BE CROWNED TH MINUTE MEMBERS’ PLAYER OF THE MONTH VOTING OPENS AT THE 70 Socceroos smashed Uzbekistan 6-0 in VOTING CLOSES AT 10:00PM the ensuing semi-final but ultimately lost DOWNLOAD THE APP out to Japan in the final 0-1 in another WSW REWARDS close knock-out stage encounter decided with an extra time goal. 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My record of being the introduced to football, so to take the game Wanderers’ highest goal scorer of all-time out there is fantastic for a lot of young is coming close to being broken: American families who will be able to experience Katie Stengel has found form towards the game for the very first time. the back of the season and has scored five Today also marks our first and only goals with only two games remaining. Double Header of the season and our It doesn’t bother me if the record gets Westfield W-League team always love the broken as long as the girls are winning opportunity of playing on a larger stage. games. If the record gets broken, it gets It gives the team a bit more of broken. If not, I survive another season. a platform and allows the fans an If the girls are competitive and opportunity to come out and watch the doing their role then that is what I girls play before the men, giving not only want in the end. 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