| Thursday December 6, 2007 |
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Finally we have a coach! And he's Dutch! That seems to be the criteria. Pim Verbeek's our man, in place exactly two months before our first World Cup qualifier.Significantly, the 51-year-old, who guided Korea to third at the Asian Cup, will be based in Australia and will be here next week to watch some A-League action. Let's hope we put on a show for him and have some bumper crowds. It should be a great time to get to games too, because I think we can safely predict some big efforts from World Cup hopefuls in the coming weeks.
Richard Cann
Deputy editor, Australian FourFourTwo
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If Pim Verbeek's not sure about John Aloisi's goalscoring ability he need look no further than this month's FourFourTwo! We sat down with John to re-live his very favourite goals, and boy, there are some pretty special ones in there. He also told us his thoughts on returning to the A-League.
Returning heroes is a real theme this month - we also caught up with Tony Popovic, Craig Moore and Paul Agostino, who told us exactly how the A-League stacks up against the world's best leagues. Of course there's a whole lot more in there as well, so get on down to your newsagent and check it out!
If Pim Verbeek's not sure about John Aloisi's goalscoring ability he need look no further than this month's FourFourTwo! We sat down with John to re-live his very favourite goals, and boy, there are some pretty special ones in there. He also told us his thoughts on returning to the A-League.
Returning heroes is a real theme this month - we also caught up with Tony Popovic, Craig Moore and Paul Agostino, who told us exactly how the A-League stacks up against the world's best leagues. Of course there's a whole lot more in there as well, so get on down to your newsagent and check it out!
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Australia News
Socceroos Get Verbeek It's Pimm's all round at FFA headquarters tonight after they finally managed to sign another Dutchman. The Socceroos have their new coach with Pim Verbeek the man the steer us to South Africa. |
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Australia News
Juninho Out Until New Year LA Galaxy thug Kevin Harmse did more damage than we'd realised. His crude hack on Juninho last week has ruled the little master out of action until the New Year after scans revealed a chipped shin bone. |
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Australia News
Victory Swoop To Sign Ward If QPR don't want him, we'll gladly have Nick Ward back! Melbourne Victory has picked up one of Australia's brightest talents, bringing home the A-League's inaugural Young Player of the Year. |
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Australia News
Musialik On His Way Out Of Jets? Another young talent on the local scene is Jets playmaker Stuart Musialik and A-League clubs will be buzzing at the news that he hasn't signed a new contract yet. The Jets better sort this out quick smart! |
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| Four... things we loved this week |
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World News
Becks Crushes Tired Phoenix David Beckham wrapped up the royal visit Down Under by scoring in Los Angeles Galaxy's 4-1 win over an exhausted Wellington Phoenix. Most importantly the match attracted the biggest crowd ever for a football game in New Zealand, with 31,853 on hand to watch Golden Balls. |
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World News
Cahill Punishes Dirty Dick Take that Dirty Dick! Nobody snubs the Socceroos and gets away with it! Timmy made sure Aussie's got their revenge on Dick Advocaat scoring the goal that knocked his Russian team Zenit St Petersburg out of the UEFA Cup. |
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World News
Euro 2008's Group Of Death If the Socceroos think they've got a tough task ahead of them in the World Cup qualifiers, they should spare a thought for Italy, France and Holland who have been drawn against the mighty Romania. No wonder Marco van Basten has already announced he'll step down after Euro 2008. |
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World News
Kaka Picks Up Top Gong FourFourTwo likes to be right so we were pleased to hear Kaka has been named European Player of the Year for 2007, with Cristiano Ronaldo in second place, echoing our top 100 in our November issue. |
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Blackburn's Male Cheerleader Blackburn Rovers - the equal opportunities employer! They even gave Robbie Savage a job. But this guy's the one with the serious moves! How can Blackburn lose with this sort of support. |
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Australia News
Middleby Tackle Broke Becks Everyone wants to leave their mark on the big occasions. Little Robbie Middleby will be able to boast to his grandchildren about the time he broke David Beckham's rib in front of 80,000 people, then got a cuddle out of it. Bad boy! |
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