Sky Blues confident of beating Melbourne City
Confidence is high in the Sydney FC camp heading into their two-legged A-League semi-final showdown against Melbourne City.
Confidence is high in the Sydney FC camp heading into their two-legged A-League semi-final showdown against Melbourne City.
Former Sydney FC-turned-Wanderers star Milos Ninkovic was forcibly removed after going to congratulate his former teammates.
Tempers flared in the changerooms in the aftermath of Sydney FC’s finals win over local rivals Western Sydney Wanderers on Saturday night.
Much has been made of the Western Sydney Wanderers this season, but Sydney FC goalkeeper Andrew Redmayne isn’t sure what all the fuss is about.
First it was the stand-in coach, now it’s the captain. With the restart of the A-League season only a matter of weeks away, Melbourne Victory have quite a bit of work to do.
Foreign players at three A-League clubs have not been paid since mid-March, leaving them reliant in some cases on cash handouts from their union or on money sent from family in their homelands.
For all the grand and welcome ideas about football’s long-term future I’ve heard from some former Socceroos, the game’s ecosystem here has proved to be so fragile, all focus should be on the immediate term.
Despite FFA CEO James Johnson saying the season’s remaining 32 games would be played mainly in NSW, the door had yet to be shut on a Queensland hub, if the local government is prepared to chip in.
The A-League is creeping towards a resumption, but simmering player anger over massive wage cuts threaten to boil over before games are even able to resume.
A whirlwind 36 days of football could save the 2019/20 A-League season under a resumption plan put forward to clubs and TV broadcasters – but there’s still two major hurdles to clear.
It was only last weekend that the FFA said Victoria and NSW were hub options for completing the A-League season. Now a new player has emerged and that state’s only team couldn’t be more delighted.
Mathew Leckie admits he’ll be on the hunt for a new club at the end of the season after revealing how commitment to the Socceroos cause doesn’t sit well with European clubs.
Adelaide United football director Bruce Djite said the club would not stand in Riley McGree’s way if they receive a formal offer for the star midfielder.
It’s been a good 35 years since their heyday but Brisbane City, are dreaming big with the appointment of Matt Smith as coach. And the former Roar skipper is ‘happy to accept the challenge’.
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