match day booklet

FK BEOGRAD ROUND 1

FEBRUARY 23

VS

FEBRUARY 2025

5:00PM

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1SOLUTION PARK

Club Message

Official Voice

Welcome to the 2025 NPL Season Opener at 1 Solution Frank Mitchell Park!

Dear players, supporters, and football family, On behalf of the club, I extend a warm welcome to everyone joining us at 1 Solution Frank Mitchell Park for the first game of the 2025 NPL season. It’s fantastic to see our community coming together once again to support the beautiful game.

A special acknowledgment goes to our team, FK Beograd, for their dedication and hard work during the preseason. Our players, alongside our coaches and support staff, have put in tremendous effort to prepare for this campaign, and we have high hopes for what lies ahead.

Tonight, we take on Adelaide City FC in a matchup rich in history and rivalry. Through the years, our clubs have shared many intense and memorable battles, shaping the landscape of South Australian football. Both teams have built strong legacies, and this fixture is always one to watch.

As we kick off the season, we look forward to the challenges and triumphs that lie ahead. With the talent and passion in our squad, we believe this will be a year to remember. To our supporters—your unwavering support is invaluable, and we can’t wait to hear you in full voice throughout the season. Let’s make 2025 a season of success, unity, and great football.

Enjoy the game, and C’mon Beograd!

Andrew Popovich Club President

Coaches Message

Official Voice

Hello and welcome to our supporters, officials, volunteers and sponsors to Season 2025.

Reviewing the 2024 season, it was a season of consolidation for our club after a big turn around of players and a new coaching staff, the season had many highs combined with some inconsistent performances resulting in a 7th place finish, something we are not satisfied with as a group but certainly a platform to push on for this coming season.

Today we welcome Adelaide City to 1 Solution Frank Mitchell Park, and a special welcome to President Angelo Carrozza and new coach Vas Parhas for what is sure to be an exciting Round1 clash.

Our pre-season has been excellent with the introduction of our new Strength and Conditioning Coach, Josh, from Mitise Performance, pushing the players both physically and mentally. The players have worked extremely hard, as we have seen in kilometres covered, top speeds we are reaching, we are physically ahead of where we were this time last season.

On the park, we have seen solid performances all the way through our friendly matches, whilst giving minutes to the entire squad as well as some of our promising younger players from our Reserves team given an opportunity to impress. A highlight was our friendly match weekend in Melbourne, where we travelled to play against Melbourne City Youth Team at the Melbourne City Academy in Casey Fields, a great test on the field and an excellent bonding weekend for the squad.

I’d like to officially welcome our new signings to the club for the 2025 Season. From back to front, we are delighted to add Dakota Ochsenham (Adelaide City), Cooper Nunn (American Eagles University, USA), Markus Orchard (Sturt Lions), Kristin Konstandopoulos (Campbelltown City), Cristian Borghetto (Fulham United), Riley Stam (Adelaide United) and Lorenzo Boselli (Syracuse University, USA) to our squad, all players with outstanding attributes which will bring both quality and experience to our squad.

Finally, I’d like to congratulate Massimo Falco on being elevated to our Senior Leadership Squad. Massimo is now in his 4th year at FK Beograd, a player who shows leadership qualities on and off the field and has remained loyal to FK Beograd, buying into what we are trying to achieve at the club from day one. Andoni Natsiopoulos again will be our Club Captain, supported by Vice Captains Jared Clark, Ninko Beric and Massimo Falco – all excellent leaders who we are proud to represent our club on the pitch.

We look forward to another huge crowd at Frank Mitchell Park tonight, be loud as the team loves hearing the chants from the Terraces!

Idemo Beograd! (Go Beograd!)

Adrian D’Aloia Senior Coach – FK Beograd

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Club News

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Captains’ Message

Official Voice

Good afternoon everyone, a massive welcome back to Frank Mitchell Park for another season in the NPL where we come up against powerhouse Adelaide City in round one.

We have had a very busy pre season on the field which has been led by our new strength and conditioning coach Joshua Smith. Josh who was at the club previously in 2019 returns to the club where he has been superb in making sure us boys are prepared mentally and physically over the course of the year and brings a strong passionate presence to the playing group. In terms of the squad, we have bolstered our group immensely by signing many top quality players locally and internationally that will be a perfect fit for our club.

Along with the strong core of our remaining squad, it is a fantastic combination that will be pivotal towards our successes this year on and off the field.

The coaching staff has remained the same, their efforts throughout pre season have certainly not gone unnoticed in getting us prepared. As always, they are looking for ways to improve on last year’s strong performances and to start the 2025 season off on a positive note. For everyone in attendance today, we hope you enjoy the match up between two very talented teams, treat yourself to the amazing food that is always available on gameday and we hope to see you again very soon.

Team Captain Andoni Natsiopoulos

FK Beograd 1. Jamie Signorello 2. Jordan Leane 5. Cooper Nunn 6. Kristin Konstandopoulos 7. Massimo Falco (VC) 8. Jason Konstandopoulos 9. Maksim Ivanic 10. Antoni Trimboli

Head Coach: Adrian D’Aloia Assistant Coach: John Falidis, Matthew Muscroft Goal Keeper Coach: Lee Addison Operations manager: Mick Pacetta

11. Ninko Beric (VC) 12. Andoni Natsiopoulos (C) 14. Yudai Koike 15. Ethan Harrington 16. Alex Bandjak 17. Lorenzo Boselli 18. Riley Stam 19. Cristian Borghetto 20. Jared Clark (VC) 22. Fro Niyonkuru 23. Markus Orchard 33. Dakota Ochsenham

Strength and Conditioning Coach: Josh Smith

Adelaide City 1.John Hall (VC) 4. Lewis Killoh 5. Kerrin Stokes 6. Jeanpaul Mpembe 7. Daniel Bressan

Head Coach: Vas Parhas Assistant Coach: Jonathan Negus, Stevie Pepper, Michael Paleka

8. Yared Abetew 9. Matthew Dawber (VC) 10. Nicholas Bucco (C) 11. Bruce Kamau 12. Nicholas Francese 14. Binyam Kebede 17. Peter Akot 19. Isaac Martini 20.Yuki Kitano 21. Fergus Lynch 22. Juan Gutierrez 25. Luis Lawrie-Lattanzio 28. Lucca Uhlmann 32. Giuseppe Baldino 41. George Zacharias 46. Oliver Western 51. Fraser Nisbett 80. Patrick Caraccia

Goal Keeper Coach: GianLuca Parlato Team manager: Fabian Garuccio Strength and Conditioning Coach: Lachlan Barr

FK Beograd Teams RESERVES:

U18S

Alex Rusmir Bosko Bilic Daniel Bandjak Dion Lombardi Driton Sali Ewen McGregor James Jones Jordan Leane Kristos Stefanopoulos Lucas Stolinski Michael Marafioti Rocco Pacetta Sasha Lanzoni Tristan Millamo Tyson Allen Zach Atkinson Zak Cosic

Aaron Reyes Giani Pacetta Rian Rolston Akash Ghimires Milan Bogdanovic Xander Visser Abbas Afzali Louis Pietsch Stefan Cvjeticahin Luciano Rostirolla Tyson Cowman Deon Karpathakis Oliver Vuksevic Patrick Paysden Thomas Antoniadis Will Kindstorm Raph Rostirolla Matius Guider Chris Davis Zak Dumanovic

Head Coach: Steph Pappas Assistant Coach: Branko Brankovic, Luke McCormick Operations manager: Mick Pacetta

Head Coach: Shahin Shahrooei Assistant Coach: Karl Vonhof

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