THE RUN HOME: Melbourne is on track to host two A-League finals in the one weekend for the first time. MATT WINDLEY predicts how the remainder of the regular season might unfold — and what that means for City and Victory.
FOR years it has been a financial blackhole for A-League clubs, but Sydney FC believe the Asian Champions League could help to drive growth in Australia as well as overseas.
FORMER National Soccer League power South Melbourne drew almost 2000 when they faced Chinese Super League club Guangzhou R&F last night. DAVID DAVUTOVIC asks: ‘Imagine they clashed in an official match?’
THOMAS Kristensen has been left out of Brisbane’s AFC Champions League playoffs squad as Roar coach John Aloisi takes a safety-first approach with his Danish midfield enforcer.
ANGE Postecoglou’s iron-clad self-belief was forged seven years ago and just eight kilometres from where the Socceroos face their date with destiny on Friday night.
THEY lost their best player and changed coaches in the build up to the Asian Cup but Kuwait are still confident they can surprise the Socceroos.
SOCCER chiefs say they’re not the fun police, despite banning beach balls, horns, hooters and vuvuzelas from the Asian Cup.
SOCCEROOS attacker Mathew Leckie revealed that a club-mandated post-Brazil sabbatical to Mallorca two rounds into the season has turned his fortunes around.
THE Socceroos are going to have to overcome almost 50 years of history if they are to defeat Kuwait at AAMI Park on Friday night.
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THE North Korean soccer team has dashed to the privacy of their hotel after arriving quietly for the Asian Cup.
WEDNESDAY is the first time Socceroos players will get an idea of the starting XI for Friday night’s Asian Cup opener against Kuwait at AAMI Park.
IF China coach Alain Perrin needed any reminding that the Asian Cup was only a few days away, he got it at his team’s official welcome in Brisbane.
THE Socceroos won the world’s respect in Brazil, but former boss Pim Verbeek declared it was time for coach Ange Postecoglou to deliver at the Asian Cup.
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