Wanderworld Issue 2 by Western Sydney Publishing Group

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HE WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS will be eyeing off a vital opportunity to secure three points against Wellington Phoenix in their home debut to the 2013 A-League season this Sunday afternoon. After securing a draw against the champions, Central Coast Mariners, in the ﬁrst round the Wanderers come home to Pirtek Stadium and hope to get the job done against the Phoenix. The reason this match is so vital for the Wanderers is found in their early schedule.

Wanderers Coach, Tony Popovic will eye the Phoenix and Heart as the best chances to secure three points and ensure the Wanderers are near the top of the ladder once the pecking order is established. Taking a handful of points this weekend is imperative and to do so the Wanderers must hold possession and be clinical in front of goal. Socceroos representative, Mitchell Duke, opened the scoring for the Mariners last week and it took a delightful chip into

up and they needed a calm ﬁnish in the 87th minute to secure the point they deserved on balance. A clear impact of newly signed players who have a nose for goal, combined with the unpredictable attacking genius of Hersi, means the Wanderers already have a scoring formula for the tough matches. Against the Phoenix on Sunday the Wanderers will expect the likes of Aaron Mooy, Shinji Ono and Mateo Poljak in midﬁeld to dominate proceedings as the

always crucial to Wanderers’ success and will be on Sunday as well. The Phoenix have an inexperienced defensive line and were the cause of their team’s downfall against the Roar in Brisbane in round one. Bridge and Hersi will cause havoc to that defensive line and if the deep-lying midﬁelders secure more possession than last week the likes of Labinot Haliti will be able to run into attacking space from the wing back positions. Given the great forecast for Sunday there’s

This is the first time in 2013/14 that the Wanderers will play at home, and the first time they will play at Parramatta since it was re-named Pirtek Stadium For the Wanderers style – absorbing pressure and attacking on the counter – to work in individual matches and across a whole season requires them to stay in touch with the opposition. To open the season the Wanderers have already played the Mariners. These are the next five Wanderers fixtures: Phoenix at home, away to Sydney FC led by a sparkling del Piero, home against Adelaide, away to Heart and home to Melbourne Victory.

the corner to spoil a strong defensive performance by the Wanderers. In response, Tomi Juric showed ﬂashes of his own Socceroos potential when he volleyed home a wonderful cross from Youssouf Hersi. Juric was one of the signings made by Popovic to increase the Wanderers success in front of goal and it has paid dividends already in a tight match. After doing well in the ﬁrst half the Wanderers chances dried

Phoenix struggle with players called up to represent New Zealand. If the Wanderers engine room is up to the task the second string Phoenix players could be run off their feet in their second road game in two weeks on what looks likely to be a very warm Sunday afternoon at kick-off come 5pm. The attacking runs of Mark Bridge and Hersi, who love to break between the opposition fullbacks and centre halves are

a great chance the Wanderers fans will ﬁll up Pirtek Stadium and a wall of noise will greet the youngsters from Wellington. Building a home fortress is essential to a title run and the Wanderers will hope for a packed house and the foundations of a strong home record this week. My prediction? The Wanderers will start fast and be able to close down the game late on, cruising to a 3-1 victory in front of a bouncing Red and Black Bloc. WANDERWORLD | 3

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MARK BRIDGE IN ACTION LAST SEASON PHOTO: MELINDA JANE

STORY BY NATHAN TAYLOR

The re-building of Mark Bridge MARK BRIDGE HIT ROCK BOTTOM AT SYDNEY FC AND WAS THINKING ABOUT GIVING THE GAME AWAY. THAT WAS UNTIL THE WANDERERS CAME CALLING. NOW, HE’S BACK TO HIS BEST...

OT MANY PLAYERS IN the A-League know what it’s like to lose a grand ﬁnal, and for Wanderers striker Mark Bridge, the pain of losing to the Central Coast Mariners in the 2013 decider still hurts. “To be honest, I’m still not over it, I think about it a lot,” Bridge told Wanderworld. “Even watching the NRL Grand Final recently and seeing Manly lose, I know how bad that feels.”

While last season’s grand ﬁnal loss may still be cutting the 27-year-old deep inside, he has nothing but stellar appreciation for the club he is a part of – a club that’s turned his life around. Since arriving from Sydney FC in June last year, Bridge was a major part of the Wanderers’ success in their debut season scoring 11 goals including the club’s ﬁrst ever in the A-League.

“I love it here… I feel I haven’t only improved as a player but as a person as well. I think I’ve matured a lot over the past 12 months and I’m learning every day, which is what you want as a professional sportsperson,” he said. “11 goals was fantastic last season, if I can get that again I’ll be extremely happy but as long as we are winning I really don’t care.” Perhaps Bridge’s rekindled passion for football and his club is largely due to the fact that he was very close to giving the game away following a number of serious injuries and off-ﬁeld matters at Sydney FC. That was until Western Sydney, a club

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Search on for new Aussie leader ADAM Peacock is a respected sports journalist who is currently part of the Fox Sports team covering the 2013/14 A-League season

YPICAL. JUST TYPICAL OF Australian football. We get the good, and the bad. Record crowds, TV numbers to make TV types happy on a Monday morning and good football, which will only get better. The best game for the weekend was the last, with Adelaide and Perth ripping into each other like one stole the other’s girlfriend. All that was missing was Jerry Springer as ref, although Ben Williams’ 12-yellow card trick was novelty enough. ADP again shone, Brisbane started like we thought they would and yeah the Melbourne Derby ﬁzzled out, but 45,000 rocked up. And of course, Central Coast and the Wanderers showed exactly why they will be up near the top again, unless there are

injuries. But given they both prepare for the season like they are about to do 27 Tough Mudders, you can’t see that happening. Now the bad. The Socceroos against France. So much has been spoken and written about the result and the sacking of Holger Osieck that followed. It was quite an eye opener to have a front row seat to it all as Bozza, John Kosmina and Robbie Slater unloaded – not just about the French ﬂogging, but a whole range of issues surrounding the national teams at senior and youth level. It was like ﬁnally, this result had given us the urge to rip off the band-aid and talk about the wound which had started to fester into something really serious.

Since David Gallop took over, it’s been a dream run with a great A-League, World Cup qualiﬁcation etc. Now the challenges. The next 12 months is critical to the next 12 years for the Socceroos. Get it right, we are where we think we should be. Get it wrong… gulp. Should Wanderers fans be hopeful/worried Tony Popovic (pictured) will get the gig to replace Holger? Nope, not worth worrying about. One day he’ll be a prime candidate, but that one day isn’t now, with Ange Postecoglou and Graham Arnold the leading domestic contenders, and the mail is it is desperately close between those two in the halls of power at FFA.

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REVIEW BY JUSTIN TODD

PHOTO: MELINDA JANE

OUND ONE OF THE A-League saw last season’s grand finalists go head-tohead at a sold out Bluetongue Stadium. Not even the most optimistic Wanderers fan could have envisaged after one season this particular match would symbolise so much. The Wanderers took to the field with mixed emotions, looking for revenge from last season’s grand final whilst feeling relatively confident after a 1-0 victory at Bluetongue last season. The Wanderers dominated large periods of the match and looked the most likely to open the scoring. Their first real chance was provided by Mark Bridge who was causing trouble down the flank, though the impressive Pasfield produced a double save, also denying Youssouf Hersi on the follow up. Overall it was a game for both defences, with the Wanderers usual back four following up on their form from last season with another solid display. Even though the Wanderers had the better of the chances, the match was scoreless

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until Mitch Duke broke the deadlock after latching onto a slick pass from Mariners new man Marcos Flores. It was a cool finish by the Mariners front man and handed them an unlikely 1-0 lead. Wanderers continued to threaten and just as we all thought it wouldn’t be their day, Tomi Juric stepped off the bench to finish a good move with a darting near-post run. Many were surprised by Tony Popovic’s decision to leave Shinji Ono and Tomi Juric on the bench, and the performances of both likely means they won’t be there again for the match against Wellington. Last week I tipped Juric as the man to watch for the Wanderers this season, so for me it wasn’t a surprise to see him come off the bench to slot home the equaliser much to the delight of the 7,000 or so Wanderers fans who travelled up to Central Coast. “I thought we deserved a bit more but we didn’t score when we were dominating in the first half,” said Wanderers coach Tony Popovic after the game. However, a draw against last year’s grand final winners away from home is still a more than respectable result.

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WANDERBITS WITH W A L LY T H E W A N D E R E R

KEEPING UP WITH COVIC

Determined to win

Hair-raising bet

GOAL keeper ANTE Covic gives us a player’s perspective on the Western Sydney Wanderers

UR WHOLE TEAM WAS very positive after our draw with the Central Coast on Saturday. Throughout the whole 90 minutes I think we dominated the Mariners but we were probably unlucky not to get a goal by half time. The team was really pushing towards the end to get a result even though we got the equaliser in the 85th minute. I think we played some great football and can take a lot out of the ﬁrst game. Even though we were down late in the game we have that mentality about us that we can get back into it. Popa said to us many times that the game’s never over as long as we keep focused and never lose our heads, and that a goal can materialise at any minute of the game. We know we were playing good football and if we just kept to our guns we knew we were good enough to get back into it, which we did. I think in the end Central Coast were dying for that ﬁnal whistle to blow while we were hoping the game would go on as long as possible.

WALLY the Wanderer has all the gossip on the Western Sydney Wanderers

HO’S SEEN THOSE VERY hairy beards Wanderers stars Mark Bridge and Nikolai Topor-Stanley are sporting? Well, it’s because the pair currently have a bet in place where the ﬁrst player to shave it off has to buy the other one’s coffees for an entire year. And with the coffee prices exceptionally high in Sydney these days, expect these boys to look like Santa Claus come Christmas time.

We had a number of standouts on the weekend but I think Megsy (Michael Beauchamp) in the centre of defence played fantastic as did Tomi Juric and Shinji Ono who I think turned the game for us. I’m really looking forward to playing back at Pirtek Stadium this Sunday against Wellington in front of a very vocal home crowd. We’re going into the game thinking nothing less than three points is going to do. We’re definitely going out for the win and we definitely know it’s a game we should win. Wellington had some players missing through international duty but if Jeremy Brockie returns he’ll be someone I’ll have to watch out for, he was in great form last season. Wellington are a hardworking solid bunch that have a very experienced coach in Ernie Merrick which means they’ll be organised. It’s a game we can’t take lightly but we are definitely going to be playing our own game and go for the win.

The A-League has announced that 127 regular season matches will be seen in 65 countries outside of Australia this season after a global streaming deal was reached so fans can watch the game online. Full match broadcasts are available in the USA, China, Italy, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Canada, the Caribbean, Hong Kong, Singapore and Myanmar. On top of full match broadcasts, highlights of A-League matches can be viewed in 53 countries throughout Asia and the Middle East, including Japan and South Korea, on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s ‘Australian Network’. “The growth of the Hyundai A-League has been extraordinary in the last two years and that is starting to bear fruit overseas as more and more football fans around the world develop an appetite for our national competition,” said FFA CEO David Gallop. In a signiﬁcant boost for ex-pats, Australians travelling overseas and A-League fans in countries where matches are not broadcast, fans can watch every game live by subscribing to www. aleague.livesport.tv, dramatically increasing the availability around the globe.

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