Wow, that's disappointing.

Ikmondis was given the captains armband for the U21's was he not? Suppose Serie C is about that level anyway. If he goes he really needs to be looking at 90 mins a week or their abouts.

Jovanovic is the K-League Round 17 MVP

Cap him.

Edit: Belgium, eridivisie etc..

Edited by Dan_The_Red: 29/7/2014 10:29:41 PM

Amini is one of 5 bvbII players going to the first teams training camp is Switzerland



http://www.ligainsider.de/mustafa-amini_1497/mit-den-bvb-profis-ins-trainingslager-88944/

There is a photo on their twitter of them travelling where you can see amini



https://twitter.com/BVB/status/494037211642621953

I never see any candid photos of Amini and Langerak. I would have thought they'd be best buds in situations like this ^

Mustafa Amini
Height: 175cm

Mitchell Langerak
Height: 192cm

Guess they just don't see eye to eye.

:lol:

That is great!

Amini is always so easy to find :D

Times are great now. We need to nurture all of our talent coming through. There are so many decent players coming that I forget some. I guess this is the thread where we will continuously mention how they're going. Imagine if Brilliante and Ikonomidis kick on in Italy in the next two years and Amini gets a full year for the U23, Sainsbury has a solid year in Holland and Edwards goes close to promotion. Plus Herd making a comeback and Leckie, Oar and Halloran improving on their weak areas. We need to cap Ikonomidis asap.

Anyone got news on Bozanic's injury or why he was taken off?

Tonnes of pics with Amini on BVB facebook. He's doing well with over 100k fans on his page.

Only started reading this thread last week. It's great. Should have started earlier!

This, good times ahead, I hope we're really busy in this thread this year! :)


Not even le meme, we really do, like yesterday. Don't even want to think about loosing him to Greece.

Hasn't Ikonomidis played for the junior national teams at competitions? Doesn't that mean that he can't join another national team with the new rules?

He's been on training camps with Greek age teams, but IIRC never played competitively, but he's also played competitive games for us in the U-20's.

Either way, he's still eligible for both countries as you're only locked out from playing senior football for country A if you play youth football for country B before becoming eligible for country A. As he has been eligible for both countries since the day he was born the matter won't be decided until his first competitive senior cap. Adama Traore was one example falling the way we don't want; playing youth football for Ivory Coast long before he ever came to Australia and obtained citizenship.

I'm happy to have European countries' youth systems train up our players for us against quality European opposition with shorter travel times from their clubs, as long as they end up playing for the Socceroos at the senior level!

Edited by paladisious: 30/7/2014 11:29:02 PM

:d

Exactly right

chris herd starting against chesterfield

can't get a stream but villa forums are pretty critical of the team

herd at cb it seems

herd appears to be one of 4 experienced players

still he has played every minute of preseason

Lowton, Herd, Bennett, Gardner, Burke, Tonev all off

Skapetis with a goal, an assist and hitting the woodwork in a 5-0 win over 9th tier Congleton Town for a Stoke XI that included several first team players. Teenage GK Dominic Kurasik rode the pine, no word of Alex Grant though.

Excerpts from the link:



Edited by paladisious: 31/7/2014 10:30:38 AM

Hyuga Tanner dictating play for 90 minutes play in midfield against Scottish League side Annan Athletic for Rover U21's, winning 5-0.

Doesnt look like brilliante is starting....

Oh well, can't start them all. It's only pre-season, we are getting our hopes up a lot. Is he on bench? Hopefully he is a second half sub.

Fiorentina didn't tweet their bench, they're losing 2-0 already in the first half, maybe they should chuck him on!

Cahill playing for NYRB against Real Salt Lake right now.

Hoping the next friendly Ange throws Ikon and all these Euro players on for kicks and gigs and watch them run rings around Asians. It's gonna be a farce this Asian Cup if we get on top of all this.