I played on a pitch that had goals each end (which I think was a good thing) but there was no netting. 😢⚽️🍔

Nice story bro

In the schoolyard football was simply 'wogs v skips' aka 'wogs on dogs' :-$

Edited by bohemia: 10/11/2015 11:42:34 PM

I recall the kids who missed out on the Aussie rules team making up three quarters of the Sokker team. They didn't know how to kick either ball. They put the biggest widest kid they could find in goals thinking that'd do the job.

I remember when I was in year 3, I had a Brazilian football nut for a teacher, and he organised for our class to play one of the other classes in a football game one lunch time. 8 players picked from each class. We scraped a late winner in a tight 1-0 win, even though we were properly the underdogs.

For what it's worth, that same teacher used to set up a football game for students to play at lunch time most days. He'd just bring out cones and kids would come and join in. He was a fantastic player, and we all loved watching him play. The guy would have been in his early to mid 30s, but he was in top condition and has fantastic skills. Was amazing that he spent most of his spare time just kicking a ball around with us at lunch.

I lived in Mudgee (small town in rural NSW) for a few years as a kid right around the 2006 World Cup, and the back of the school was basically this massive paddock where dozens of us would play football all lunch time. I remember games where there were about thirty kids on each team; it was crazy but really fun.

The problem was, in summer, the teachers (all unashamed NRL fans) decided to ban us from playing football because it was apparently too hot. Of course, rugby league was still allowed...

Then when I moved back to Sydney I just happened to end up at a school where the only balls allowed were tennis balls, and then my last school was all concrete and no grass.

Much of my school life basically involved me arguing with teachers over whether I could play football.

We used to play grade 3 vs grade 4. Grade 4 always won. But one day, just once, I scored an absolute pearler and me and my Grade 3 comrades prevailed. Never let them forget it. Run into people I went to primary school with every now and then and they all still remember heckling the shit out of "the big kids".

Dude!!

Born and raised in Mudgee bro!

Left there in 2002. Are you talking about Mudgee high?

I'm sure cityslicker10 wont mind me telling this story.

I played indoor under when I was younger and at the time of this story I was about 15 and CS10 was about 13. Anyway CS10 has always looked very young for his age and he was approached by a coach if an under 11 team to fill in for them as they were short. CS10 proceeded to do horribly filthy things and banged in a lazy double hat trick (may have even been 7 goals).

=d> good stuff

My school put another stupid "multi-purpose room" over the little patch of Grass that we had but made up for it by building 2 awesome new fancy street football cages. They was only big enough for 5/6 a side and there was too many kids so we had to pick teams and play winner stays on. It actually made lunchtimes so much better because everyones skills got a lot better and no one wanted to be the tit who let a goal in.

The problem was that it was also used by the Basketball kids and whoever brought the football to school also had the responsibility to sprint out at the start of lunch to stop them using it. Bourke Street December 2013 in Bourke Street was nothing compared to the fights over those courts. :lol:

Edited by melbourne_terrace: 11/11/2015 08:01:03 AM

Even after banging in 6 or 7 goals nobody picked up he was at least 2 years older than every other kid.

My story with indoor was that I was always a goal keeper. If we had the late game I always liked to get there early and watch the other games. Got asked to fill in for a the bottom place team playing against the top place side. I had never played "outfield" before but proceeded to bang in 4 and help them to a 6-4 win.

Lunch time games? Pussies. Grade 2- yes 7 and 8 year olds-walked to school ON THEIR OWN for kick off at 8.00 AM Sharp.This was in the days when there was icicles on the grass, real mud, and you couldn't feel your fingers and toes. Goals posts were 4 jumpers on the ground and we'd estimate if the shot went over the cross bar. Oh and heading a water-logged leather ball at 8 am would give you concussion.

You under estimated my power. I actually scored a lazy 10. We won 12-0. I had 8 till half time and thought I've done enough :lol:



Edited by cityslicker10: 11/11/2015 09:01:41 AM

Fuck it was 10? :lol:

The under 11's played with a foam ball too and you were still smashing them from half court. The keeper even jumped out the way of a few.

We had a football tournament in year 8 PE class. We got randomly placed in teams and played a group stage/knockout style tournament. I got dumped into a team with this kid who was basically my worst enemy and was absolute c*** of a kid. Throughout the tournament we combined for 25 goals and won the thing :lol:

I grew up in Melbourne's west, predominately 'wogs and asians' at my school :lol:

In the earlier days it used to be 'wogs vs asians' on the oval at lunch time, many memories there.

We used to play fustal in the school hall as well when they started giving us access at lunchtime, alongside a certain Mate Dugandzic too. The teacher that set it up was an Englishman, massive Man Utd fan. Whenever he'd be on the losing end with a few minutes to go, white line fever kicked in and he didn't care how young we were, slide tackles become the norm.

The best memory though was when the school had to enter an Aussie Rules team in the interschool comp. It was made up with about 6-7 blokes who played aussie rules, the of us rest played football, or were just there to make up the numbers. There were blokes kicking the ball off the ground from 50m out, attempting volleys, the lot. I even got sent off for dissent :lol: I remember we got smacked by these country kids, we didn't even kick a goal all tournament.

We did really well in interschool football and futsal though.

Started playing in Sydney (Padstow RSL Soccer Club...not sure they still exist ..was a very big club then) in under 9's in 1966. We played on full sized pitches. Also played for Padstow school team .
Those big pitches were a reason we all played a British long ball style back then . Over the back to wingers and /or straight to a quick centre forward.
We still played football but most of it was going forward...only passed back if you couldn't go forward .

Came to Brisbane at age 11 and went to Stafford State School. It was, at that time ,easily Brisbane's premier Rugby league School. The Headmaster actually banned "Soccer" in the lunch hour as " it ruins the oval grass " ( as if barefoot 11 year olds would wreck grass).
We simply ignored it and played anyway. I personally had a few footballs confiscated.
The headmaster was petrified his precious Rugby league players would all give up Rugby League and play football.
(didn't happen ....I , and many others , played Rugby League for the school teams on Fridays and then Football on weekends ..he needn't have worried)

Very much the same down here. Schools will actively push kids to AFL.

What's funny and complete goes against that move is that at my club on a Saturday morning we have double the amount of kids at our Mini-Roos than the AFL club has at Auskick.

In year 7, my old school, and Rouse Hill Anglican has a sports day, where all the girls compete in a netball comp, and all the boys play in a big football comp.

It was 6aside, and 2 year 9s coached each team. My team had one of the best year 9s as coach (never seen a player hit the ball as hard) but we were incredibly unfancied as a team. When I think back, I don't even know how I ended up in that team, it's really strange... But we needed up coming 2nd in our pool on goal difference, and then whoever formatted the finals was a dumb cunt... 1st in each pool played 2nd in the correlating pool and 3rd played 4th... Of course we drew the side from Rouse Hill who had completely dominated their pool, averaging 3 or so goals per game.

At this stage, I was the top scorer in the comp, but I moved back into defence to try and steady the ship against these guys, in the end, we managed a 0-0 draw, but because they placed higher, they went though. That team ended up making the final and losing in an epic game. Still burn a little bit when I think about what could have happened if their stupid finals system didn't fuck us over :lol;
On the upside, despite only scoring in the group stage, I finished golden boot' not bad for a kid who played sweeper at the time :lol:

Small world! I lived in Mudgee for about three years.

I was actually at St Matt's, I probably would've ended up at Mudgee High but then we moved back to Sydney in 2007.

This was basically me all through primary school, although the high school I went to did football as a subject.

We (Wogs) used to fuck shit up in wogs v dogs, although I think we made about 500 less passes because everyone wanted to dribble the field :lol:

A cousin of mine used to own the old Shell garage out there. I've spent a heap of time in Mudgee over the years. I used to go there to study for exams because there was no distractions.

Edited by eastern glory: 11/11/2015 11:43:35 AM

I was school captain of St Matt's in 2000. Went there from Kindergarten all the way through to Year 10 then Mudgee high for 11 and 12. I was there when the school burnt down in 1992.

Did you play Quinn cup? We were the first year to win it for Mudgee so that was awesome.

Best school football for me was when we played off against Kwinana who had topped their district and we had topped ours. They had Alistair Edwards and we had the Naven twins.

I kept a clean sheet and we won 2-0.

But because there was no real commitment to "soccer" back then, the final play off against the top school from north of the river never got organised.

That's a quality story!

My school had a strong link with the Solomon Islands, and we used to get 2 or so boys over every year on football scholarships. One year, the national Futsal team came in preparation for the World Cup and played a full XI against our Opens team. None of them had boots so we all had to bring a spare pair :lol:
2-1 win, I got the winning assist with a tidy little through ball.

Lol I didn't realise the school burnt down. And yeah we did Quinn Cup but weren't very good - got thrashed pretty thoroughly I think.

I played in the local league where all the teams were named after local businesses though; captained us to an unbeaten season which was pretty cool.

Local kids teams that I remember from my time there were:

Mudgee Nissan
Gulgong Joinery
Gulgong RSL
Mudgee Soldiers club
Bob Woods Toyota
Kandos Rylstone
Petries Mitre 10

Good times.

Grew up when Small sided games were a pipe dream.

Played full field 11 a side as a 9 year old for Hills Hawks in NW Sydney. Didn't see much of the ball but I got pretty good at running and won the school cross country pretty consistently : )

Being on a full field as a 9 year old was the best!! Wouldn't have traded that for anything.