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Post by Andy on Sept 4, 2006 19:46:46 GMT 10
Cheers cyberaid!
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Post by glen006 on Sept 5, 2006 19:37:16 GMT 10
how bad was Roy Mackaay's miss!! I'll have to jet over one weekend for a match and try to catch up with the boys! Ontong .. didn't his brother play cricket for South Africa .. Justin??  |
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Post by socceroo06 on Sept 6, 2006 13:06:09 GMT 10
Teen ready to swap Geelong for Germany
GEELONG teenager Matthew Spiranovic is poised to become the latest Australian recruit to the "Kangaroo colony" being established up at leading Bundesliga side FC Nurnberg.
The 18-year-old, 192-centimetre centre-back, who played in a World Club Championship qualifier for Melbourne Victory when he was 16, successfully has completed a two-week trial with the table-topping Nurnberg and is confident a deal will be sealed within 48 hours.
Nurnberg is home to three other Australians — World Cup striker Josh Kennedy, defender Michael Beauchamp and former A-League defender Dean Heffernan — and Spiranovic is looking forward to linking up with his more experienced countrymen.
"It looks as if I will be going to Germany. Since my youngest days, I have said I wanted to play overseas and I am not looking at knocking it back if I get the chance," he said. "Getting the chance to develop my game at a big club in a country like Germany would be fantastic."
Spiranovic has played eight times for the Young Socceroos (Australian under-20 side) and represented Australia at the under-17 World Cup in Peru last year.
When Victory coach Ernie Merrick was building his squad in early 2005, Spiranovic (then at the Victorian Institute of Sport) played for the Victory in its first competitive match — the World Club Championship qualifier against Adelaide.
He barely put a foot wrong in a game that finished scoreless after extra time, but was not selected as one of the club's three under-20 players for its first squad. He then went to the Australian Institute of Sport and the national junior squad.
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Post by cyberiad on Sept 9, 2006 21:54:00 GMT 10
I know nothing of Ontong. The coaches have a taste for Aussies now do they? I have no idea. Maybe it still has to do with the connection of our coach to Andre Gumprecht. It's also better for teams like ours to look for young players in Australia and other "smaller" soccer countries. Because the big clubs get all the good players from Europe, South America and Africa. They often get them already when they are 15 or even younger. Apparently Spiranovic got an offer and we are really excited about him, because he made a great match. Although it was only 36 minutes that he played. But hed did it with so much routine and confidence. I haven't heard anything about an offer for Ontong. Thanks to all the others about gathering information about those two Young Socceroos! It's much appreciated |
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Post by forzamariners on Sept 17, 2006 11:59:45 GMT 10
Nurnberg 1 - 1 VfL Bochum
Still top of the table,
Meggsy and Sonic not even on the bench
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Post by Andy on Sept 20, 2006 22:07:36 GMT 10
When we played the tards on sunday night, the commentators were saying that the clubs will meet in January and that Heff and meggsy could be back by the end of the regular season if Nurnberg don't want them.
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Post by Fish on Sept 20, 2006 22:14:26 GMT 10
Its the Bundelsiga with world class players just being involved with a club would be great for their careers.
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Post by brett on Sept 20, 2006 23:35:29 GMT 10
It's a shame though that the one club that picked them up goes for a surprise run for the title.
It's not like the coach is going to drop defenders to give our boys a go when they are top of the comp. No offence cyberiad but if anything we should be hoping for FCN to lose a few games so Sonic and Meggsi come into contention a bit more!
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Post by brett on Sept 20, 2006 23:36:53 GMT 10
When we played the tards on sunday night, the commentators were saying that the clubs will meet in January and that Heff and meggsy could be back by the end of the regular season if Nurnberg don't want them. What are we going to do though...pay out two current players contracts and tell them to bugger off? It'll be interesting to see exactly how the 20-man squad limit will affect their return. |
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Post by dibo (pron. "DIB-OH") on Sept 21, 2006 9:14:28 GMT 10
*MARQUEE PLAYERS*
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Post by DBoon21 on Sept 22, 2006 8:51:16 GMT 10
Live this Monday morning on Setanta.
There would be acouple of places showing it (but not any on the coast)
BTW there a couple of good web streams coming out of China and France of Setanta US and Europe that I watch Hamburg SV play on and the commentary is in English!
Monday, September 25th
Energie Cottbus vs FC Nurnberg - Bundesliga
Live coverage of this Bundesliga game from the Stadion der Freundschaft. Both sides have made good starts to the season and are in the top 4 coming into this match.
LIVE @ 1am
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Post by Coastie on Sept 25, 2006 12:24:05 GMT 10
Meggsy made his Bundesliga debut last night coming on in the 89th minute in Nurnberg wasteful 1-1 draw against Cottbus i think it was.  |
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Post by Coastie on Sept 29, 2006 12:03:25 GMT 10
The only mention from the match report at the Nurnberg site: Which I had translated at Babelfish  "Cottbus smelled" ;D Original article: www.fcn.de/index.php?id=12576I assumed there'd be more enthusiasm! Perhaps there is an underlying desire to see him come back home to the CCM rather than succeed? |
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Post by omni on Sept 29, 2006 19:36:20 GMT 10
From all accounts it was an incredible 3 minutes, I'm happy for Meggsi, hopefully he can get the tactics down and start mastering German so he can understand the manager's jokes.
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Post by mariners4ever on Sept 29, 2006 19:40:54 GMT 10
even though it was only 3 minutes meggsi finally got some time before the 2 internationals coming up in october
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Post by cyberiad on Oct 3, 2006 0:05:46 GMT 10
Sorry, for not giving any update since some weeks. I see you already found out that he played 3 minutes against Cottbus. I heard he made no mistake and helped to keep the 1:1. His only task was to take care of one single player, namely Kevin McKenna, but that could be hard enough, because that guy is well known for his headers However last Saturday he didn't play at all. But it was a difficult match where we played with 10 players nearly 50 minutes. So the coach had to look who needs to be substituted. Last week there was also an interview on the official page of the league: www.bundesliga.de/de/liga/clubs/1-fc-nuernberg/index.phpThere's no direct link possible, but look for the article from "28.09.2006". Michael talks about his situation and how he feels. He now thinks that he reached the level for the Bundesliga. He also mentions his impressions in his first match, that it was quite fast and intensive. He hopes that he will get more of these appearances. Most importantly for him was that he was quite unused to have training every day or even twice a day. He was asked about Australia and the league. He expects it to be improving more and more and that it is the dream for every Australian to go to Europe once Although he thinks he is the right level now he still needs to learn the language. He said he would like to understand the jokes of the coach ;D |
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Post by Coastie on Oct 3, 2006 11:58:19 GMT 10
Thanks for the update cyberiad  Let us know about Spiranovic too will you, if you learn anything... |
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Post by Farthing on Oct 5, 2006 18:07:32 GMT 10
i just realised the club name is spelt wrong in the topic, isnt it Nurnberg not Nuremberg? i could be wrong tho
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Post by Pete on Oct 5, 2006 20:15:23 GMT 10
I *think* I saw Beauchamp in the background of a sports report for the Socceroos match V- Paraguay. Is he back in Aus. for this match?
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Post by bobandbill on Oct 5, 2006 20:23:34 GMT 10
Yes he is
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"Cottbus smelled" ;D
