I didn't think any of those claims for handball were clear cut and that would be a ridiculous way to ref if that was his thinking. To see Lujic celebrate that "assist" is just about the lowest of lows in terms of sportsmanship, absolutely disgraceful

Is it just me or do they make ports ground smaller every year? Seems like the pitch has been brought in more on the social club side, also closing off the far side of the ground which offers the best view is really really stupid, I absolutely hate going to that ground because you can't get a decent spot on the outer to be able to see the match.

I agree, he should have gone to the ref and asked for the goal to be removed:roll:

I'm not suggesting that, I'm just saying when you pull a dog move like that, it makes it even more disgraceful to celebrate afterwards

1-0. Lujic.

This is starting to look like a season trend...

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FFA Cup coach spotlight: Chris Taylor

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South Melbourne coach Chris Taylor. Image credit: Kevin Juggins.


Monday, 1 June 2015
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Ahead of the huge Victorian Westfield FFA Cup derby this Friday night between South and the Knights, we analyse the career upswing of South Melbourne's Chris Taylor.
From the humble surroundings of Chaplin Reserve in Sunshine, to the state-of-the-art facilities at South Melbourne, Chris Taylor is now the toast of Victorian football.

But it has not always been smooth sailing for the Leicester-born coach.

Long before guiding South to the state's inaugural PS4 National Premier Leagues title last year, winning an unprecedented treble with Dandenong Thunder in 2012 and leading Melbourne Knights to within a penalty kick of a Victorian Premier League crown four years earlier, Taylor was making his name at Sunshine George Cross - a club that gave us Kevin Muscat, Manny Muscat and John Markovski.

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Not to mention Ernie Merrick, Paul Trimboli, Damian Mori, Craig Foster and Ernie Tapai all called Chaplin Reserve home at some stage throughout their careers.

And it is there where the 55-year-old enjoyed the highest of highs and lowest of lows.

"I think you take knowledge from all of your experiences. George Cross was certainly an experience for me," Taylor told www.theffacup.com.au.

With George Cross on its knees and facing an uncertain future, having been one of eight Victorian teams to participate in the now defunct National Soccer League (NSL), Taylor returned to Sunshine - where he enjoyed nine years as a player after Sunshine City merged with George Cross in the 1980s - and helped the club climb from the depths of the state's third-tier competition to the VPL in consecutive seasons.

While George Cross' return to the pinnacle of Victorian football gave Taylor iconic status, it was not long before plans were afoot to call time on his tenure as the relationship between coach, committee and fans turned sour.

Despite avoiding relegation on the final day of the season in 2005, with limited resources and a teenage Manny Muscat leading the charge, Taylor was sacked the following campaign after just six games.

"Going back to the club, it is like one of the heroes returns and the first year was fantastic. The first year is like the honeymoon. The second year people become a little bit more familiar with you but we got promoted," Taylor said.

"Probably the biggest achievement for me was the third year, staying in the Premier League with a very, very young and inexperienced side.

"The difficulty is, though, the longer you are at the club the more people become familiar with you and George Cross typified that.

"The first year no one dare speak to you, the second year people get a bit more familiar with you and the third year the bloke in the canteen is trying to tell you how to pick the team.

"That kind of summed up what the club was like. But football over here in general, two years is a good lifespan for you at most clubs because people want change for the sake of change."

Fast-forward nine years and the Englishman has gone from a maligned coach in the western suburbs to one of, if not, the best in Victoria.

During that time he has unearthed Socceroo full-back Ivan Franjic, who was handed his debut at the tender age of 17, while Mate Dugandzic (Knights) and Steve Pantelidis (Altona East) were both provided with a platform to eventual Hyundai A-League careers.

Taylor himself is ambitious and confident of progressing beyond the boundaries of the PS4 NPL, though he would much prefer to embark on that journey with South, who are not giving up hope of competing in the Hyundai A-League in the future.

"My immediate focus is on South Melbourne and my dream would be to get them in the A-League," he added.


Read more at http://www.theffacup.com.au/article/ffa-cup-coach-spotlight-chris-taylor/tmz8g68zulvt1g35h3b0wmun1#eopyDD5VYHidGotI.99

Across the Pond - Episode # 42: Nick Soolsma, former Toronto FC
Johan Dykhoff interviewing Nick Soolsma, Dutch midfielder with past Toronto FC.

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Nick Soolsma was born on January 7, 1988. He is originally from a small town named Andijk, which, however, since 2011 has been merged with another town by the name of Medemblik. Soolsma says in the interview that football was largely the only sport he practiced as a child and represented as FC Volendam and PSV on child and youth level. The season 07/08 began Soolsmas professional career when he played for the now defunct HFC Haarlem in the Eerste Divisie , ie the second highest division in the Netherlands who formally is called Jupiler League. He made ​​seven appearances for Haarlem on the season but went on and came to do two seasons in the semi-professional football in the Netherlands, first for FC Chabab and late VV Young Boys. Soolsma did very well in the Chabab and Young Boys and pulled partly out of interest from clubs in Qatar. Soolsma says, however, that he did not feel eager to move to there. Early in 2011 went Soolsma over to Canada to sample train with Toronto FC, then coached by Soolsmas countryman Aron Winter. He wrote at Toronto in March and came to 22 matches, three goals and five assists in MLS during the 2011 season Toronto, however, came second last in the Eastern Conference and thirteen points from a playoff spot. The season after, that is, in 2012, launched the Toronto season with nine straight losses, which is a record bad start to an MLS season, and Soolsma got less playing time than the year before. In July, Toronto and Soolsma agreed to break the contract with immediate effect, this incidentally shortly after Aron Winter was fired as Toronto coach. Soolsma then returned to the Netherlands and wrote in August 2012 on a contract with the Rotterdam club Excelsior Jupiler League. He came to make 22 league appearances for Excelsior the season. Excelsior came in fifteenth place in the Jupiler League and thus came second last of the clubs that went bankrupt and thus disappeared as the season progresses. After the season with Excelsior went Soolsma off on another adventure when he signed for South Melbourne FC, a team that is not playing in the highest division A-League but the National Premier League 's Victoria, which may be called the second division. Soolsma made ​​the move there with the intention to play only for a short time for South Melbourne FC to then be referred by any team in the A-League, but it never came to happen. Another reason for Australia move was to Soolsmas Canadian wife wanted to stay somewhere where English is the first language and therefore left the Netherlands after only a year in Excelsior. After the session in Melbourne returned Soolsma to Canada, this time to Vancouver, where he lives since the beginning of 2014. He played amateur football for two different clubs in Vancouver Metro Soccer League, the past season for Langley FC Hurricanes. The team finished fourth in their league and Soolsma, who now plays striker, won the top scorer. He also works as a coach alongside his own football gambling. In this interview, we talk among other things about how Aron Winter's coach, which MLS players he thought was the most difficult to play against, what he thinks about his ability to return to the professional football and some of the young Dutch players should keep an eye on for the future. "Click here to listen

http://www.theffacup.com.au/article/ffa-cup-coach-spotlight-chris-taylor/tmz8g68zulvt1g35h3b0wmun1

Strange they mention A-League on an official FFA site.

yeah, i was just acknowledging the content.

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