Had a mate like that in league, I convinved him to play by telling him it meant he could fight the footballers (league) whenever he wanted. He was an absolute beast and would just belt guys at training all the time for the fun of it, really fuck guys up, but everyone put up with it because the team needed him. He knocked back all offers and never played again after high school and ended up years later as the guy who rides the horse around the field at Broncos games.

I went to school with a guy who's now a Futsalroo but he gave up playing football at 15 or so... He just wanted to try other sports and gave up football. The kid was an absolute freak though. Fit as, fast, could beat any defender, and most impressively he could score a free kick from anywhere he liked. He'd be 20 now and used piss himself laughing when we talked up Connor Chapman, he used to turn him inside out. His only downside is that he's absolutely tiny!

This is back in England... Throughout school I played in a team alongside a lad who was unstoppable. Fast, strong, defenders used to get hurt trying to tackle him. The guy would have scared Vinnie Jones. He'd rule midfield and I'd just sweep up around him and try to dodge the corpses he left behind. The thing was, he only played to keep the teachers off his back - never played outside of school. Didn't even like the game.

He was offered trials at Sunderland, Newcastle, Man City, Leeds, Arsenal, and a few others from memory - but wasn't interested in playing professionally. After he turned down the trials I'm pretty sure a couple of them offered him the chance to just train with the youth team and see what happened - which he turned down.

No one will ever convince me that he couldn't have played at a very high level if his heart was in it.

He's a bus driver in Leeds now.

same, started playing on large full size pitch at about 9, was easily the best ground in our regional league, goal nets with stanchions, corner flags, good even playing surface plus high banks around about half of the pitch making a natural amphitheatre, plus us juniors would play first thing in the morning and the pitch was always fresher and less cut up. I would stay the whole afternoon watching seniors games and always thought they were having less fun because they were bigger and had less space to run around.

:lol:

I remember that! Nearly knocked her out.

I also remember stopping a Pen with my face.

I remember playing indoor (mixed comp) the fields were small so at kick off I got a nice back pass and I thumped it as hard as I could, Only issue is it smacked the girl running in the back of the head.

Aye I remember playing an Aussie v Wogs/Islanders league game in highschool, anyway the game was pretty tame until this one roided up leb charged onto the ball changed his line and tried to steamroll over the top of me (I was the smallest guy on the field but had played league for several years) so I lined him up and put him flat on his ass, he rolled around on the ground for a good couple of minutes and eventually got up and left but for some reason he never played league again. :lol:

Didn't play that much soccer at school, wish I played more ALF though really enjoyed that.

Mudgee, always a team full of 11 Kevin Muscats. The week before playing them was always spent getting ready for a bloodbath and to just go in with two feet above the knees for everything. Dubbo Newtown FTW!

At uni we had an Aussies v Wogs rugby league game, and despite my heritage, being a country boy I was on the Aussies team. I was worried because the roided up Lebs were about twice our size and I didn't fancy making a lot of 1 on 1 tackles as fullback. None of my mates were worried and I shouldn't have been, we won 78 nil, battered them senseless and I didn't make a single tackle.

After the match I learned that I was one of only two players on the Aussie side who didn't go to St Gregory's Campbelltown on a scholarship. Good lesson that in any sport size cannot make up for a huge difference in class. For all you Mexicans St Gregs (especially in the 90s) basically was just a factory for rugby players of both codes, their second and third teams were producing professional players.

At high school we played with anything we could find. If the soccer ball was lost, we used a rugby league ball or AFL ball; a tennis ball if we were on the concrete courts. You weren't trying if your knees didn't end up covered in blood.

Hybrid games where made, e.g. normal football rules except the goals were the basketball hoops and the ball was a rugby league ball.

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

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 : )

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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:

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.

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:

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.

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)

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.

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:

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.

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

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.

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.

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