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Melbourne City FC - Just another Pissant Town?

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over 8 years ago

Joyce out, Popa in? Guy that told me about AK9 seems to think so.

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almost 8 years ago

Melbourne City has announced a new coaching structure for the A-League and W-League teams in advance of the 2018/19 seasons.

Rado Vidošić joins City as the Club’s Technical Director and Head Coach of the Westfield W-League. Vidošić’s extensive A-League experience includes two seasons as Assistant Coach alongside Ange Postecoglou at Brisbane Roar, as well as Assistant Coach roles at Sydney FC, Melbourne Victory and Wellington Phoenix. His son, Dario Vidošić, currently plays for Melbourne City.

Former Matildas Captain, Melissa Hudson (formerly Barbieri) joins Vidošić as Assistant Coach of the women’s team. Hudson made 86 appearances for Australia and has featured in four world cups. She most recently came out of retirement to play as an injury-replacement player for Melbourne City.

Zeljko Kalac joins the A-League team as goalkeeping coach. The 6ft 8in former Socceroo joins the Club from a stint as goalkeeping coach it Karabükspor in Turkey. Before that, he coached at Western Sydney Wanderers and Sydney FC. As a player, his career spanned more than 20 seasons in the UK (Leicester City), Italy (AC Milan, Perugia), Greece (Kavala), the Netherlands (Roda) and Australia (Sydney United, Hobart Zebras).

Tony Vidmar has signed a two-year contract extension as Assistant Coach of the Hyundai A-League team. Former Melbourne City Captain Patrick Kisnorbo will be Second Assistant Coach to the men’s team.

https://www.melbournecityfc.com.au/news/melbourne-city-fc-announce-201819-a-league-and-w-league-coaching-structure
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over 7 years ago

So will the City group loan them a superstar replacement?

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over 7 years ago

RR wrote:

So will the City group loan them a superstar replacement?

Jesus?

Oi Oi Edgecumbe... lets have a clean sheet

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over 7 years ago

RR wrote:

I feel rather sad for them. What would the Phoenix be without the Yellow Fever? Nothing pretty much.

Oi Oi Edgecumbe... lets have a clean sheet

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Mainland FC
about 7 years ago
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about 7 years ago

RR wrote:

JUST IN @MelbourneCity's Director of Commercial and Operations Brad Rowse will take over as club CEO in April.

Scott Munn has been appointed as CFG China CEO, a new position. #ALeague

— Daily Football Show (@DFS_AUS) February 20, 2019

Failing upwards

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almost 7 years ago
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almost 7 years ago
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almost 7 years ago

Off to Wests?

Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!

The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!

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almost 7 years ago
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almost 7 years ago

Erick Mombaerts is the name floating around to be the new Gaffer at City. No concrete sauces tho.

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almost 7 years ago
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over 6 years ago

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about 6 years ago

Big blow to them with Jack Hendry needing surgery after tearing his medial collateral ligament.

Great news for us playing them soon!

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over 5 years ago
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over 5 years ago
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over 5 years ago
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Enough saidnumber8Wibblebutt
over 5 years ago

Great move for him. He'll do so well


VUW AFC - Victoria University Football for life

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coochieeLGscribblertheprof
over 5 years ago

newzealandpower wrote:

Great move for him. He'll do so well

Importantly keeps him in the NZ football orbit more or less. Not too far away, if opportunities ever arise back in the Shaky Isles.

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scribbler
over 5 years ago

Kit leak from FIFA 21?

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over 5 years ago

Home Kit

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over 5 years ago

Away kit

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over 5 years ago

Third Kit

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over 5 years ago

City gonna leave their 5 year old training facilities for a new one in Dandenong, in order to have a regional identity

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over 5 years ago

Good move to set up shop down south - its barely 'regional' though. With no further A-league expansion on the cards in Melb, best to take a firmer grip on a suburban stronghold. This is where Team11 was based.

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over 5 years ago

It's a good move for them, it's a very fast growing area of Melbourne with a population base that traditionally supports football.

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pierre
over 5 years ago · edited over 5 years ago · History

Yep, it should've been done when they first came into the league but better late than never.

There's a big immigrant population, particularly in Dandenong and surrounding areas, who will love to have a team to properly support.

It's further away from the city than Werribee/Truganina (~35km), so will be further out than Western United's catchment area.

a.haak

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over 5 years ago · edited over 5 years ago · History

pierre wrote:

Good move to set up shop down south - its barely 'regional' though. With no further A-league expansion on the cards in Melb, best to take a firmer grip on a suburban stronghold. This is where Team11 was based.

I meant regional as in a part of Melbourne that can see them as their team. They have basically looked at the Team 11 bid and thought, oh those are good ideas & ran with them
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valeo
over 5 years ago

valeo wrote:

Yep, it should've been done when they first came into the league but better late than never.

There's a big immigrant population, particularly in Dandenong and surrounding areas, who will love to have a team to properly support.

It's further away from the city than Werribee/Truganina (~35km), so will be further out than Western United's catchment area.

Thats right, not just distance but a big mental/social difference also. Sort of like North-harbour v Auckland but even more stark.

If they can build the boutique stadium in D'dong it will really be the missing piece in the puzzle to solve Melbournes fragmented teams and hopefully capitalise on the potential in these suburbs.

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LG
almost 5 years ago
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almost 5 years ago
Isn't Des unbeaten as an A League coach?

Oi Oi Edgecumbe... lets have a clean sheet

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almost 5 years ago
RR
Great for Des but honestly horrible for PK. Achilles injuries are NASTY - and to do that during a charity match is pretty unlucky. I liked PK as a player and rate him as a manager (also I might be biased as he's half Italian IIRC) - so best of lucky for a quick recovery!

VUW AFC - Victoria University Football for life

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Oi Oi Edgecumbe
over 4 years ago
ABC 'Four Corners' is do an exposé piece next week on the City Group, and Melbourne City. Looks they will be digging up some dirt on the Abu Dhabi United Group, especially.
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about 4 years ago
Kisnorbo linked to a UK gig, rumored to be Sunderland. 
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