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Part 2 of 4- Glen Moss Interview

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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Part 2 of 4- Glen Moss Interview
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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I realise that the questions arent overly challenging, its only for the school magazine.
Moss was a great guy to talk to.
Cheers!
 

Stefan: Are you excited for the upcoming season?

 

Glen: ..Cant wait! I am sick of pre season, I am sick of running, and I want to start playing..

 

Stefan: Were you surprised at the popularity of the Phoenix?

 

Glen: Yeah I was a little bit, to be honest, pleasantly surprised, Ive not been to Wellington before myself and I didn�t know how it was going to look, umm, nah. Things were great last year.

 

Stefan: What was your favourite moment playing for the Phoenix last year?

 

Glen: uh, probably the first game, yeah just, ya know,  I didn�t know what was going to happen and it was a great, great day against Melbourne

 

Stefan: What were your reasons for coming to Wellington?

 

Glen: Uh, probably to just get some game time, I had been overseas in uh, in Romania and I didn�t really enjoy it so I wanted to play again and play in the A-League and it was just a bonus for me having the national team coach in it everyday as well so yeah, Ricky attracted a lot of players..

 

Stefan: Uhh� What do you admire about Ricky as a coach?... Do you?

 

Glen: uh, yeah.. of course, I mean he is an approachable guy and uh, I have had coaches in the past where.. you know, you don�t want to go talk to them or don�t know how to talk to them, uh Ricky off the field is just one of the boys and you can go up and talk to him about anything so, he is an approachable guy.

 

Stefan: How did you get into professional football?

 

Glen: uhh, I wasn�t much good at anything else to be honest, uh, I left high school

And uh, and picked up a professional contract in Sydney uh, when I was about 17 so I have been doing it ever since then.

 

Stefan: Was sport encouraged at your school?

 

Glen: uh, yeah I went to a, an actual sports high school in Australia so, over there you did any sport from.. Golf, surfing, Football, rugby uh, you know, sport over there is crazy.

 

Stefan: Did you try any other sports at school other than football?

 

Glen: Uh, I did a little bit of cricket and a bit of swimming as well and I have swam since.. I could walk so..

 

Stefan: What are your personal goals for the rest of your career?

 

Glen: uh! I want to get back over seas at some stage, but uh, I would like to play a tonne of games for the Phoenix Stefan: Play for a few more years..  Glen: oh Definatley, and uh, and uh, hope fully get to an A-league grand final.

 

Stefan: What are to goals for the team?

 

Glen: uh, this year is definatley top four and uh, if we could get a sniff of the grand final and even win it, it would be awesome, but I think everyone is looking for a top four for this season.

 

Stefan: What do you think about the idea of Australia and New Zealand both doing a joint hosting of the world cup in the future?

 

Glen: It would be awesome wouldn�t it? It would be a great idea, hopefully Australia would share it with us but uh.. it would be good to get football out this way.

 

Length of interview: 2:56mins

Stefan2008-05-07 22:16:29
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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Good job Stefan - I like the fact the team is obviously shooting for the top 4.
He dribbles a lot and the opposition dont like it - you can see it all over their faces. (Ron Atkinson)
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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Yeh nice work, amusing to see all the umms and ahs left in the transcript :)
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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Whitby boy wrote:
Good job Stefan - I like the fact the team is obviously shooting for the top 4.
 
= Ambitious, just what we want our players to be - Ambitious enough to want to be champions with the Nix.
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 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
That one was good, cheers.
And you used my questions, yay!

Thanks for taking the time Stefan, and thanks to the players too of course!
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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Good effort Stefan.

It's encouraging to see that Moss has a reasonable grasp of the English language as opposed to Durante.
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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Please please don't include the uh's and ums :( Makes it so frustrating to read haha

Good effort nonetheless

a.haak

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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

don't you have to in a  transcript though? I feel sorry for you Stefan, in my 7th form year we had to transcript 10 minute conversations or something. My god it takes forever.

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Stefan wrote:
 

Stefan: How did you get into professional football?

 

Glen: uhh, I wasn�t much good at anything else to be honest,

 
Mossy is an absolute legend.
 
I remember speaking to him at the start of last season, and I think that he said that his parents keep up to date on the Phoenix news from this website (I was a bit drunk at the time).  If that is the case I want the Moss family to know that their boy is a hero to the fever.

All I do is make the stuff I would've liked
Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
Now I'm firefly like a burning kite
And yousa fake fuck like a fleshlight

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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Hero is right Frankie. He saved our butts on more than a few occassions.
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 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Nickel wrote:
Yeh nice work, amusing to see all the umms and ahs left in the transcript :)
 
Cheers for the work, buy I gotta say, readin the ums and ahs is a bit frustrating. You won't be considered to be misquoting if you remove them.
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almost 18 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
I realise that the transcript is annoying.. but it is also part of the unit standard and to be honest, I really dont want to go through and do one for you guys and one for my thing..
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