South Korean Tour A Boost for WA Development

Last week’s Gangjin Tournament in South Korea has been hailed as a great success by the Football West National Training Centre (NTC) assistant coach who helped guide the Western Australian team to fifth place.

The prestigious invitation-only Under 15 tournament saw Football West take on French team Valenciennes FC, South Korea’s Cheong-Nyong and eventual champions, European giants Barcelona.

The NTC started the competition in superb style, defeating Valenciennes 4-2 in their opening match before losing heavily to Cheong-Nyong (6-1) and Barcelona (7-0) in the other group matches.

After qualifying through to the finals, Football West upset Russian giants Zenit St Petersburg 2-1 and in the play-off for fifth place, the WA side defeated Japan’s Cerezo Osaka 3-2.

Assistant coach Warren Grieve says the tournament was a fantastic experience for the young side.

“It was great chance to see where Football West is at in terms of development, and gave us an insight as to how other teams and countries organise, train and compete.

“The tournament is an annual event and it would be fantastic to return next year knowing exactly what to expect.

“The standard was outstanding and competing in high level events will only help with the development in Western Australia.”

Football West is confident of being invited back for next year’s tournament.

FOOTBALL WEST UNDER 15 NTC SQUAD

Nicholas AMBROGIO

Daniel BUHAGIAR

Jacob COLLARD

Kieran COLWELL

Matthew DAVIES

Daniel DOLS MAYLANDS

Jordan FRANKEN

Scott GALLOWAY

Byron HUDSON

Alexsandar JOVIC

Guy KALMA P

Ogi LALOVIC

Harry O’BRIEN

Adrian PETROSKI

Luke RADONICH

Callum RICHARDSON

Bor Bor SAM

Slobodan VULIN

Coach: Cris Ola

Assistant Coach: Warren Grieve

Physiotherapist: Nafyn Pattiaratchi

UNDER 15 GANGJIN TOURNAMENT DETAILS

August 26

Valenciennes FC 2 Football West 4 (Nicholas Ambrogio, Kieran Colwell, Alexsandar Jovic and Bor Bor Sam)

August 27

Cheong-Nyong 6 Football West 1 (Kieran Colwell)

August 28

Barcelona 6 Football West 0

August 29

Zenit St Petersburg 1 Football West 2 (Al Jovic and Matt Davies)

August 30

Cerezo Osaka 2 Football West 3 (Nicholas Ambrogio, Kieran Colwell and Harry O’Brien)

Balcatta Soccer Club requires junior coaches for the 2011 season

Balcatta Soccer club have a professional and progressive Junior Development Program.

We are now seeking Expressions of Interest for our junior coaching department for the 2011 season. If you are an experienced and qualified coach and want to move forward with your coaching expertise, then please contact me shortly for an interview day & time. You need to contact me before the beginning of October. This is for U11-U16 1st Team Coaches.

If you are a relatively new coach and want help on your coaching pathway then please also contact me. It is better to contact me before the Christmas break. This is for U11-U16 Development Teams or Rooball Coaches. We here at Balcatta Soccer Club will pay for any coaching courses you may need, and also provide further assistance as required.

All coaches at Balcatta Soccer Club are supported by Paul Wozny (Technical Director of Coaching), and 2 Development Coaches who can help with your coaching sessions. Take your first step in becoming part of the family here at Balcatta Soccer Club. It doesn’t matter who you are, if you are a part of the club, you are part of the family.

Contact: Dennis Connors Coach Coordinator Balcatta Soccer Club
MOB: 0411 615 716
EMAIL: ucangetme@iinet.net.au

MCFC Summer Fives first Registration 25th August

Mandurah City will having its yearly 5 aside competition being held at Hyundai, this competition has really grown over the last few years especially the juniors where we had over 450 playing last year.

The seniors will be played on a Wednesday evening and the juniors on a Thursday, starting at 4:30 with the Pri-Primary/Year1

Any questions please ring David 0438210862

For registration forms

REGISTRATION SENIORS

REGISTRATION Juniors

Junior School Holiday Goalkeeping Clinic

Stirling Junior Daniel DeSilva Picked in National Team

The Qantas Australian Under 13 Boys squad has been announced for the upcoming AFC Under 14 Boys Festival of Football, with three West Australians in the 22-player team.

Daniel DeSilva from Stirling Lions, ECU Joondalup’s Ross Millard and Perth City’s Jordan Pokler were the WA selections for the tournament which kicks off on May 24 in Sabah, Malaysia.

The team was selected by coach Ante Juric who identified the players at the 2010 FFA National Junior Championships for Boys and made his final selection at a training camp which was recently held in Canberra.

Pokler was named the prestigious Player of the Tournament at the National Junior Championships and was named in the original extended national squad with WA teammates DeSilva, Millard, Benjamin Johns and Luke Vittiglia.

However, Johns and Vittiglia did not make the final 22 despite outstanding performances at the Championships.

Juric says he is pleased with the squad, but admits it will be tough for Australia in taking an underage team.

“The recent selection camp was very successful and allowed us to gauge the performance of the players within the system that we will use at the tournament,” said Juric.

“I’m very happy with the final group of players that we have selected with all possessing a high level of technical ability.

“Having been to the tournament last year, it will be much tougher this time due to us taking a younger team, but this is something that will be prepared for and above all it will be a great learning experience for the boys.”

Football West Game Development Manager Andrew Bettell says WA could have had even more players selected in the national team.

“We are very pleased to see the three lads take their place in the squad and equally disappointed for Ben and Luke who missed out,” he said.

“Nevertheless the reports from the camp on all five were very pleasing and the future looks bright for all of them.

“This recognition continues the good representation in national squads for the West and again reflects well on the Football West High Performance Centre and State programs.”

The Qantas Australian Under 13 Boys National Team will depart Australia on May 29 before playing their opening match on the June 2.

The AFC Under 14 Boys Festival of Football will run until June 6.

Lions Announce West Ham Academy Partnership Deal

Stirling Lions of Western Australia have become the first partner club for the West Ham United International Academy in Oceania/Asia.

Club President Don Evans said “This relationship with one of the best Academy systems in the world is a massive boost for young Australian footballers who wish to play football in the best league in the world.”

“The opportunity that now exists with our affiliation with West Ham is to provide talented players with a stage to demonstrate their ability during coaching clinics later this year, that will be run jointly by West Ham and Stirling Lions coaching staff under the watchfull eye of Hammers Director of Coaching in Australia Mr. Mike Leigh.”

Evans went onto say, “It would be a dream for another Stan Lazarides to make the trek to the Boleyn Ground and make a career out of football. Our Australian youngsters are well disciplined and have the hunger to make it abroad, so our club is very excited by this fantastic partnership with the West Ham United International Academy.”

Please click on West Ham United/Stirling Lions partnership news for more.

More details will follow on clinic times, dates for the trials to be held at Macedonia Park in the school holidays later this year.

For any other details on the partnership please call Don Evans on 0411512345 or Mike Leigh 0416195637.

U13 Goalkeeper Required

Balcatta SC  is looking for a Goalkeeper for the Div 1 U13 team.  Should you feel

you have the attibutes to fill this role you will receive weekly goalkeeper training

from one of the States leading Goalkeeper coaches in Paul Turvill.

For further information call Dennis Connors on 0411 615 716.

2010 U13 WA Girls FFA National Results

2010 U13 W.A. Boys FFA National Results

Results of  Western Australia U13 Boys at the 2010 FFA National Championships

Group A	Group B
NSW Metro 1	ACT
Victoria Metro	Tasmania
Queensland	Northern Territory
South Australia	Queensalnd Country
Western Australia	NSW Country
Northern NSW	NSW Metro 2

Western Australia: 1.Thomas Bayes (gk), 2.Ben Johns, 3.Luke Vittiglia, 4.Ross Millard, 5.David Molinari, 6.Callum Dobbs, 7.Damien Simic, 8.Brandon Wilson, 9.Ryan Williams, 10.Jordan Pokler, 11.Milan Ognjenovic, 12.Callum Simmonds, 13.Alex Tanevski, 14.Scott Robertson, 15.Syakir Shariff, 16.Joel Driscoll (gk)
Coach: Dave Butterfield
Manager: Darren Young

Day 1		THURSDAY, 8 April 2010
0830	Field 1 (Group A)	Northern New South Wales	2	v	0	News South Wales Metro 1
0845	Field 2 (Group B)	New South Wales Metro 2	2	v	0	Australian Capital Territory
0930	Field 1 (Group A)	South Australia	0	v	2	Victoria Metro
0945	Field 2 (Group B)	Victoria Country	2	v	4	Tasmania
1030	Field 1 (Group A)	Queensland	2	v	1	Western Australia
1045	Field 2 (Group B)	Northern Territory	1	v	4	New South Wales Country
(PM)		THURSDAY, 8 April 2010
1330	Field 1 (Group A)	New South Wales Metro 1	4	v	1	Western Australia
1345	Field 2 (Group B)	Australian Capital Territory	0	v	0	New South Wales Country
1430	Field 1 (Group A)	Victoria Metro	2	v	0	Queensland
1445	Field 2 (Group B)	Tasmania	7	v	1	Northern Territory
1530	Field 1 (Group A)	South Australia	1	v	1	Northern New South Wales
1545	Field 2 (Group B)	Victoria Country	0	v	1	New South Wales Metro 2

 

Day 2		FRIDAY, 9 April 2010
0830	Field 1 (Group A)	South Australia	0	v	3	Western Australia
0845	Field 2 (Group B)	Victoria Country	2	v	1	New South Wales Country
0930	Field 1 (Group A)	Queensland	0	v	3	New South Wales Metro 1
0945	Field 2 (Group B)	Northern Territory	1	v	3	Australian Capital Territory
1030	Field 1 (Group A)	Victoria Metro	2	v	0	Northern New South Wales
1045	Field 2 (Group B)	Tasmania	2	v	4	New South Wales Metro 2
(PM)		FRIDAY, 9 April 2010
1330	Field 1 (Group A)	New South Wales Metro 1	3	v	2	South Australia
1345	Field 2 (Group B)	Australian Capital Territory	1	v	0	Victoria Country
1430	Field 1 (Group A)	Northern NSW	0	v	2	Queensland
1445	Field 2 (Group B)	New South Wales Metro 2	6	v	1	Northern Territory
1530	Field 1 (Group A)	Western Australia	0	v	0	Victoria Metro
1545	Field 2 (Group B)	Tasmania	1	v	3	New South Wales Country

 

Day 3		Saturday, 10 april 2010
0830	Field 1 (Group A)	Western Australia	0	v	3	Northern New South Wales
0845	Field 2 (Group B)	New South Wales Country	0	v	1	New South Wales Metro 2
0930	Field 1 (Group A)	Queensland	1	v	1	South Australia
0945	Field 2 (Group B)	Northern Territory	0	v	4	Victoria Country
1030	Field 1 (Group A)	New South Wales Metro 1	1	v	2	Victoria Metro
1045	Field 2 (Group B)	Australian Capital Territory	1	v	4	Tasmania
(PM)		Saturday, 10 april 2010
1330	Field 1	NSW Metro 1	0	v	1	Group A All Stars
1345	Field 2	NSW Metro 2	0	v	3	Group B All Stars

Ladder – POOL A

	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	TPP	Points
1	NSW Metro 1	5	3	0	2	11	7	+4	5	14
2	Victoria Metro	5	4	1	0	8	1	+7		13
3	Queensland	5	2	1	2	5	7	-2	3	10
4	Northern NSW	5	2	1	2	6	5	+1		7
5	Western Australia	5	1	1	3	5	9	-4	1	5
6	South Australia	5	0	2	3	4	10	-6		2

Ladder – POOL B

	Team	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	GF	GA	GD	TPP	Points
1	NSW Metro 2	5	5	0	0	14	3	+11	5	20
2	NSW Country	5	3	1	1	9	4	+5	3	13
3	Tasmania	5	3	0	2	18	11	+7	1	10
4	ACT	5	2	1	2	5	7	-2		7
5	Victoria Country	5	1	0	4	7	8	-1		3
6	Northern Territory	5	0	0	5	4	24	-20		0

 

South Australia relegated to Pool B in 2011
NSW Metro 2 promoted to Pool A in 2011

 

LEADING SCORERS

5 Bai Antoniou (NSW Metro 1), Jacob Tarasenko (Northern NSW)
4 Darcy Hall, Michael Holden (both Tasmania)
3 Steve Kuzmanovski, Lachlan Roberts, Lachlan Wales (all NSW Metro 2), Alexander Eggleston (NSW Country), Isaac Kenyi, Lachlan Senior (both Tasmania), Aron Handakas (Victoria Metro)
2 Anthony Giorgi Thomas Milisevic (both ACT), Milislav Popovic, Christopher Zuvela (both NSW Metro 1), Matthew Moeller (NSW Metro 2), Sean Kidd (Northern Territory), Dakota Askew (Queensland), Luke Quaglia (South Australia), Gus Rumney (Tasmania), Lachlan Beever, Thomas Fuller (both Victoria Country), Mehdi Sarwari (Victoria Metro), Damien Simic (Western Australia)
1 Sam McLachlan (ACT), Joshua Day, Rhyley Foenander, Tom Galvin, Dylan Perlowski, Luke Tsantefskis, Lachlan Thomas (all NSW Country), Anthony Krkovski, Joshua Ortiz (both NSW Metro 1), Adam Berry, Matt Stewart (both NSW Metro 2), Cody Carroll (Northern NSW), Jacob Andrade, Ryan Davis (both Northern Territory), Jack Campbell, Zack Coulson, Sebastian Raubenheimer (all Queensland), Samad Altundag, Luke Child (both South Australia), En Soo She, Blake Mitchell (both Tasmania), Ryley Pasquali, Henri Scott, Lachlann McGrath (all Victoria Country), Anthony Duzel, Jordan Moncrieff, Ardian Vuniqi (all Victoria Metro), Milan Ognjenovic, Alex Tanevski, Brandon Wilson (all Western Australia)

Balcatta Soccer Club requires Junior Coaches

Due to a increase in numbers, Balcatta SC has opportunities for people looking to get into coaching, or continue their coaching life at a progressive club that will help them continue to grow. If you feel that you would like to talk more about this opportunity then please call Dennis Connors on 0411 615 716.

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