Socceroos coach Graham Arnold swaps beaches for $4 million inner west pad
Socceroos coach Graham Arnold has swapped Sydney’s northern beaches for the inner west, while his players are going ‘homeless’.
Socceroos coach Graham Arnold has swapped Sydney’s northern beaches for the inner west, while his players are going “homeless”.
Arnold, 59, recently secured the $3.05m sale of his North Narrabeen home.
It followed his purchase of a Rozelle townhouse for $4m last year.
The move puts him much closer to the Socceroos training facilities at Leichhardt.
His former Wimbledon Ave home was a two-storey, four-bedroom, two-bathroom house, rebuilt in 2017.
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It had a media room and a theatre room.
Set on 345 sqm, it featured a pool, which was a $33,000 installation, along with outdoor entertainment areas.
He had bought it for $1.67m in 2017 and then demolished the old brick home.
Set 100m from the waterways of Narrabeen Lake and Wimbledon Reserve, it had been advertised as a fantastic opportunity for the astute renovator and property investor, being on one of the most highly sought-after streets in the suburb.
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Arnold had initially sought $3.25m early last year.
The Rozelle property is a three-bedroom, three-bathroom townhouse designed by Sam Crawford Architects in 2009.
It last sold for $2m in 2010.
According to PropTrack, the median house price in Rozelle is $1.937.5m, down 14.6 per cent over the past 12 months.
It marks a return to the inner-west for Arnold and wife Sarah, who had moved to North Narrabeen from a Drummoyne apartment.
His reference to homelessness was in regard to the national team being without dedicated training facilities, instead using rundown facilities at Leichhardt Oval on a field that was built for rugby league.
He said it had been a consistent complaint for his 37 years in the game.
As a player, Arnold represented Australia 56 times, scoring 19 goals.
As national coach, he guided Australia to its fifth consecutive World Cup finals in June last year.
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