We played our second string side.

Of course he was a FFA trained curriculum coach.

For any coach to coach at this level, they must be trained through FFA.

His reasons for laughing at this player were best known to him. This information was passed on to me off forum by another 442 member. I'm not sure we want to identify a NTC coach in a specific state for doing this despicable act. If the other 442 member sees this post , he may want to add to it.

Any player I've coached who goes on to bigger and better things, I'm thrilled for them.

There is another , former FFA staff coach with very, very dubious character traits and history who has been in the system, who I'm happy to castigate, but all others I've met seem to be of decent character.

Yep i've seen the team, makes sense given they played Turkey 2 days earlier.

Still it's not a good result.

Not sure could be injured. The new kid Mirza is meant to be quite good according to my son.

Looking forward to it.

Correct me if I'm wrong but did your son get some minutes with the Melbourne City senior side in a friendly last week? I thought I saw the name. That's quite an achievement if true, considering he's only 15?

Was looking forward to seeing Roberts play again ... hopefully if it is an injury he recovers soon.

Haven't seen Mirza play before but I heard he scored 7 goals in one match last year at the Coffs Harbour tourny so hopefully he can experience the same success in the qualifiers!

Best of luck to Dylan and the boys! Enjoy your trip mate.

I could be wrong but i think he and Moric play for the Sydney United?

Think you're right! According to FSP Mirza plays in u16 and Moric in u18 for Sydney United 58 FC

Interesting, who is the better prospect out of the two?

Yeh played 25 mins he was over the moon.

Thanks mate I spoke to him today and said they all got there ok. Place there staying is a lot better then Cambodia and the food is good LOL. They even have a pool this time :)

U23 draw on Saturday. Get excited.

what is this tour for exactly? I have definitely missed something:-k

Its the qualifiers for the 2017 U17 world cup. First round.

Edited by JDB03: 10/9/2015 05:17:03 PM

Was John Roberts the 14 year old African kid? If so, he would be eligible for the next u17 tourney as well and the FFA might be holding him back. I know that at one stage you could only play in one u17 WC and it still may be the case. I assume that would go for qualifiers as well. The last tournament wasn't a qualifier was it? If not he could play in that and maintain his eligibility for the next tournament, but can't if he plays these qualifiers. Can anyone confirm?

Do any of the kids ever come on FFT?

hopefully the pitch is a lot better this time. Our juniors are always playing on shit fields.

Correct Roberts was the African kid and last tournament wasn't for qualifiers.

Came across this '' In addition to the above provisions, players selected for a representative team at the final competition of the FIFA U-17 World Cup (previously known as the FIFA U-17 World Championship) or the FIFA U-20 World Cup (previously known as the FIFA World Youth Championship) will not be authorised to compete again in Technical rules for the final competition 21 another FIFA U-17 World Cup, even if still eligible from the point of view of age. Players who have only taken part in the preliminary competition of a FIFA U-17 World Cup or a FIFA U-20 World Cup are exempt from this restriction'' on the FIFA regulations. Hopefully it helps answer your question...

Thanks for that.

Thanks.

Good luck to the team.:)

2016 AFC Under 23 championship finals Pots are as follows,
The pots are based on previous edition's result.

Pot 1:
Qatar (host)
Iraq
Saudi Arabia
Jordan

Pot 2:
South Korea
Syria
Australia
Japan

Pot 3:
United Arab Emirates
Iran
North Korea
Uzbekistan

Pot 4:
China
Yemen
Thailand
Vietnam

draw to be done on Saturday.

Edited by Brenton1986: 11/9/2015 12:09:46 AM

Not bad for us tbh , can't draw the South Koreans or Japan .

Seen the schedule for the under 15s, they have got:

16th: vs Guam 18th: vs Myanmar and in the 20th: vs Vietnam.

Hope they will be a stream available to watch these matches.

fucking panic over ... misread and thought they were the groups :oops: ](*,)

Does the Vietnamese Arsenal academy extend to this age group too? I was never sure if it was just for one cohort or for ongoing ages. If they have a team for u15s from that academy it will be interesting to see how our guys go, especially after they pumped our current u17s.

Edit : it might have been our current u20s

Edited by Aljay: 11/9/2015 08:58:55 PM

So which was it ? The 15s , 17s or 20s ??loads of info but nothing to report ? Lol

Roberts scored a lot of goals, but he didn't stand out much to me. He had one good game that I recall and I was impressed by his ability to play the hold up man, or the quick winger who gets in behind. I did think that his finishing and build up play were faily poor though.

As for the keeper that was dropped, I sure hope it wasn't the young lad who was quick off his line. He was one of the best junior keepers I've ever watched.

In case I wasn't clear, in 2013 our current 20s (2015 WC age) were pumped 5-1 by Vietnam, with the Vietnam team consisting of players almost exclusively from one academy, which was sponsored by Arsenal. I'm wondering if their 15s that we are playing in this tournament are from the same academy.

Should be some interesting matches ahead.

I was surprised they lost to Thailand given they have destroyed every other opponent they faced, haven't seen any Aussie do this at any level in a long long time, very impressed with their style and quality of football.

Nickk knows all about the Vietnam scenario.