who is this?Originally Posted by lquiquer
who is this?
Probably some mls reject being let go go by "the crew" and is considered Columbian not actually Colombian.
I actually hope it's zura and we are allowed to wear wrestling masks.
Wasn't he Ecuadorian though?
Would love to have Zura back
Middleby Gone
Lawrie Out
Don't bring facts into this!
Note the bold at the bottom of the article:
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/23...ammate/?cs=306JETS recruit Josh Barresi spent a year watching, learning from and trying to emulate Japanese superstar and former Western Sydney Wanderers midfielder Shinji Ono.
Now the Adelaide-born teenager plans to continue his apprenticeship in Newcastle under Marcos Flores.
Barresi, 19, arrived in his new home town on the same day the Jets announced the signature of 2010 Johnny Warren medallist Flores.
"It will be good for my football and great for the Newcastle Jets to have a player of such high quality," Barresi told the Herald.
Barresi was a young fan at Hindmarsh Stadium when Flores worked his magic for Adelaide in the Argentinian's debut season in the A-League.
"I remember being about 14 and watching him for Adelaide," Barresi said. "He is pretty similar to me, in that he is a tall attacking midfielder who likes to play the ball. I used to watch players more than the game.
"I would go to watch Flores over Adelaide United.
"I wasn't at the game where he scored that amazing goal against the Jets, but I do remember it. He took on about four or five players and stuck it in the top corner.
"To have the opportunity to train with and learn from him will be fantastic. Especially after working with Shinji Ono. They are two different styles of attacking midfielders.
"It is great for my learning. I definitely plan to be a sponge and absorb as much as I can."
Barresi is not the only Jet looking forward to the arrival of the Argentinian attacking genius. Socceroos striker Adam Taggart may be at the World Cup in Brazil, but he is excited at the prospect of playing in front of Flores.
"For someone like myself who's a No.9, it's great to have a real No.10, which is probably something we've lacked for a while, a real playmaker, someone who's going to set up goals and he can score goals. He's good on the ball," he said.
Jets coach Phil Stubbins confirmed yesterday that a South American striker had agreed to terms and an announcement was expected as early as today.
That would leave one place to fill on the roster, most likely for a midfielder.
Barresi left Adelaide in 2011 for the Australian Institute of Sport, where he had a brief period under Stubbins, before being picked up by Wanderers last season.
But a fracture in his back sidelined the 190-centimetre playmaker for four months.
Will believe it when I see it.
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Lawrie Out
190cm?! Barresi isn't going to get shouldered off the ball like some of the more diminutive playmakers we've seen. That's really quite towering for someone in that position.
Rogic is a similar height. You don't realise how truly tall he is till seeing him in person. I randomly walked into him one day and he is a beast. It's actually amazing how quickly he moves, and turns, for someone that tall IMO.
Haven't seen Barresi but am imagining he has similar traits.
OK
The Wanderers have lost Ono and Mooy - yet didn't feel the need to keep Barresi on the books. Given the style of football the Wnderers play that's probably a good thing.
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/...-1226952994288
NEWCASTLE Jets new boss Phil Stubbins’ unique way of unifying his squad has inspired Craig Goodwin.
Adelaide-born Goodwin, 22, will formally meet his new mentor for the first time when the squad assembles for pre-season bonding from Monday.
Stubbins — a former Adelaide United coach — wants his squad to take on the Football Federation Australia’s senior C coaching licence course before tackling physical football sessions.
“I’m pretty excited to get back in and work with him,’’ Goodwin said.
“We’re doing the C licence. At least 10 or 11 of us will be doing it and some have already got it. It’s a great way to start the new season.”
Goodwin has been in Adelaide for six weeks taking on extra sessions at Fast Twitch Klemzig and training with his old club Raiders during the A-League off season.
Goodwin — a left-sided player — said he was also hoping to meet new signings former Adelaide playmaker Marcos Flores and fringe Socceroos defender Adrian Madaschi next week.
But with Adelaide and Jets facing off in a pre-season friendly pencilled in for July 30 in Newcastle, the clash will have a distinctive flavour of SA.
Stubbins, Goodwin, goalkeeper Mark Birighitti, Zenon Caravella and young gloveman John Solari — all now with the Jets — had stints with Adelaide United, while Adelaide-born teenager Josh Barresi has also been added to Newcastle’s stocks.
Goodwin was looking forward to the ‘friendly’ clash which has been scheduled in the middle of the first matches of the new FFA Cup competition where Adelaide City and Adelaide United will feature for SA.
“To be able to play in the FFA Cup where it will be competitive is much better for the A-league and for the local teams,’’ Goodwin said.
“But I think playing Adelaide United will be an interesting affair. It is a pre-season and it is a friendly.
“But of course we’re all competitive professional footballers so I think everyone including myself we all want to win and for the Adelaide boys it’s added incentive for our boys.”
Ian Crook is new assistant coach at Wanderers
Stub bins saying he'll replace zads and Caravella with one midfielder, from today's herald.
Only concern will be if we lose Brillante. Thecqualitybof our depth isn't great either, with pepper, oxborrow and cooper
I dare say if any of our promising 3 leave they will be in turn replaced but as it stands he is preparing as if they are staying
Andrew Packer, former Syd FC and Roar player (and army reserve) has signed on as our strength and conditioning coach. Apart from his military training what other qualifications does this guy have? Think Dodd was more qualified.
Hope it works out.
Fulham in negotiations with Taggart according to FSN.
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Yarraside has disbanded and ceased existence.
They'll come back as the Citizens
A group called Swan Street Elite seem to be gathering some support.
Look forward to seeing Hendo back in Jets colours
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Two articles from today's smh.
I've been trying to explain why I love football..... Of all people Greg Baum has summed the game up so well.
World Cup shows football really is the people's game
Greg Baum
Published: June 22, 2014 - 12:04AM
More than the Olympic Games, the World Cup is the supreme event in world sport. The Olympics is largely made up minor, sectional or arcane sports, not unworthy in themselves, but wholly engaging the world for two weeks every four years. Football wholly engages the world every week of every year. The Olympics are the world's games, football the world game. This effect is less pronounced in Australia because, almost uniquely, our football passion is spread over four codes. But Australia is one of few exceptions to the world rule.
Part of the essence of the World Cup is its simplicity. Crowds come to the Olympics because of opportunity, patriotism and curiosity, but not necessarily out of lifelong devotion and understanding. For many sports, the Olympic movement feels obliged to explain sometimes byzantine rules and ideals to spectators. Crowds come to the World Cup because of undying passion. No-one needs the rules explained, though the crowds will tell you that referees do. But crowds will tell you that about any sport.
As for the ideal, nothing could be simpler: you get the ball over the goal-line or you don't (and in this tournament, there can be no debate). Goals are few enough for each to be an event in its own right, the climactic note in a crescendo. Some even attract their own names: the Marcelo own goal, the Cahill volley, the Suarez double. Oh, the Suarez double ...
Rare, and so each more precious: here the rules and ideals are instructive. Sides variously can pass or blast their way down the pitch, but always they come up against the last two barriers, a wall of defenders and the off-side rule. Sometimes a team can intrigue its way through or past it, sometimes a passage opens up unexpectedly, sometimes it takes a moment of blinding individual inspiration; see Suarez, above.
But repeated storming of this Bastille is no guarantee. Australians are conditioned to the idea that sheer endeavour deserves reward, a kind of Protestant work ethic of sport. It is not a universal sentiment. Many football fans abhor it. If their beautiful game is susceptible to the grim ideal of slavish labour, what is the point? It is supposed to transport them to another dimension, not replicate the plebeian realities of the one they're in. Sport is magic, and they don't want to see the workings. Too many goals would be a suspicious thing.
So would a game that never paused. If football fans wanted clockwork, they would buy a clock. This is real-life drama, and drama needs lulls to accentuate storms. Football gets this. The AFL doesn't, nor Cricket Australia.
In this tournament, there have been more goals than usual, but not so many as to diminish the importance of each as it it scored. In 25 games at the time of writing, there had been only three scoreless draws (and Brazil-Mexico was memorable anyway for the brilliance of Mexican goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa). In others, there was an average of more than three goals a game. On Friday, France and Switzerland scored seven between them.
To some, this is still a paucity. But this paucity also makes football the most democratic sport, in which it is always possible to have an equal match between unequal teams.
Ninety minutes of virtuosity on the pitch can be eclipsed by one moment of idiosyncratic genius, or fluke, or error, player's or referee's. It's fair, it's not fair: it's life. Frankly, this dynamic works in Australia's favour more often than not.
The tournament format sharpens the effect. In a league of nations, if there was one, you would expect Spain to put two defeats behind itself and work its way to the top. England might, too. But both are out, without really knowing how or why. Now Italy must survive Uruguay and Suarez in a prospectively excruciating match for Italians everywhere.
The World Cup gets you in. There is a feeling in Australia that if FIFA strips the 2022 World Cup from Qatar because of irregularities, Australia must put up its hand again.
Caveat emptor applies. In Brazil, the scars and grazes from staging the World Cup are apparent everywhere. Not seen yet are the mental scars, remembering that FIFA effectively establishes itself as a law unto itself in any hosting country. Is Australia prepared to prostitute itself to this autocracy? Because that's the trade-off.
This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/fifa-world-cup...621-zsh8q.html
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