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Adrian Segecic
Adrian Segecic (born 1 June 2004) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a winger for English club Portsmouth. Segecic spent most of his youth years with Lidcombe Waratah and Parramatta FC before joining Sydney FC in October 2016. He has represented Australia at youth level since 2019. He made an assist for Maung Maung Lwin's winning goal in Maybank Challenge between ASEAN All Stars Vs. Manchester United Football Club in May 2025. Early life Born in Westmead and raised in Lidcombe, Adrian Segecic developed a passion for football from a young age, idolising Argentine footballer Lionel Messi who he bases his playing style from. Segecic received his education at Trinity Catholic College, a prominent educational institution located in New South Wales (NSW). His father played a significant role when Adrian played football, watching every game he played and providing help and feedback after each game to aid his development. Segecic is of Croatian descent, through h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westmead, New South Wales
Westmead is a suburb in Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Westmead is located 26 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district in the local government areas of City of Parramatta and Cumberland Council and is part of the Greater Western Sydney region. Geography Westmead is bounded by the Parramatta River, Toongabbie Creek and Finlayson Creek in the north. On the east it is bounded by Parramatta Park, the Parramatta Golf Club, Amos Street and Good Street. The southern boundary is the Great Western Highway. The western boundary is Bridge Road, the railway line and Finlayson Creek. History The Dharug people are the traditional custodians of the land in the area now known as Westmead. Captain Cook claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain in 1770. The first fleet arrived at Sydney Harbour on 26 January 1788 and a colony was declared on 7 February 1788. An exploration party was led by Governor Arthur Phillip in April 1788 travelling along Parra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lionel Messi
Lionel Andrés "Leo" Messi (; born 24 June 1987) is an Argentine professional Association football, footballer who plays as a forward (association football), forward for and Captain (association football), captains both Major League Soccer club Inter Miami CF, Inter Miami and the Argentina national football team, Argentina national team. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Messi set numerous records for List of career achievements by Lionel Messi#Individual honours, individual accolades won throughout Career of Lionel Messi, his professional footballing career such as eight Ballon d'Or awards and eight times being named the The Best FIFA Men's Player#FIFA Player of the Year (including predecessors), world's best player by FIFA. He is the most decorated player in the history of professional football having won List of career achievements by Lionel Messi#Collective awards, 45 team trophies, including twelve Big Five (association football), Big Five leagu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Premier Leagues NSW
The National Premier Leagues NSW is a semi-professional soccer competition in New South Wales, Australia. The competition is conducted by Football NSW, one of the two organising bodies in New South Wales (the other being the National Premier Leagues Northern NSW organised by Northern NSW Football). The league is a subdivision of the second tier National Premier Leagues (NPL), which sits below the national A-League. Prior to becoming a subdivision of the NPL in 2013, the league was previously known as the NSW Premier League. History Origins Since 1956, a top divisional New South Wales based league has been contested annually in various forms, with its early days remembered as Division One. The league, jointly with other state-based leagues, formed the highest tier of soccer in Australia until the creation of a national league, the National Soccer League (NSL), in 1977. Before NSL, the Ampol Cup also ran concurrently as a state-based cup competition. In 1979 Division One offic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canberra United FC
Canberra United Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. Founded in 2008 by Capital Football, the club was an inaugural member of the W-League and the only club not affiliated with an A-League Men team. Canberra United currently competes in the A-League Women. Canberra's home stadium is McKellar Park and the club is a two-time champion and three-time premier of the W-League. W-League history 2008–09 season The first announcement of the club came in July 2008, coinciding with the establishment of the new W-League. The formation of the new club presented a unique situation in the league, that it was not associated with an established A-League side. In August, Canberra appointed Matildas assistant coach Robbie Hooker as coach for the inaugural season, and ACT Senator Kate Lundy as club chair. United also announced its first key signing in local Canberran and Matildas goalkeeper Lydia Williams. Hooker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A-League Youth
A-League Youth, formerly known as the National Youth League and Y-League is a defunct Australian national soccer youth developmental and under-21s league, founded by Football Federation Australia and later run by the Australian Professional Leagues. The current league was established as a successor to the previous competition of the National Youth League (1984–2004) and commenced in August 2008. The league runs in conjunction with the A-League Men as a developmental or reserve league. The league, as well as the A-League Men and A-League Women are administered by the Australian Professional Leagues. In 2020 it was contested by ten teams, all of which competed in the A-League. From the 2020–21 season, the league was to expand to eleven teams with the introduction of Western United, however the season was cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. Following the end of COVID restrictions the league did not return, and the clubs now focus on their develo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibrox Stadium
Ibrox Stadium is a football stadium on the south side of the River Clyde in the Ibrox area of Glasgow, Scotland. The home of Scottish Premiership team Rangers, Ibrox is the third-largest football stadium in Scotland, with an all-seated capacity of 51,700. The stadium was designed by renowned football stadium architect Archibald Leitch, with renovations to the stadium between 1978 and 1981, as well as 1990 and 1991, being designed by The Miller Partnership and Gareth Hutchison respectively. Opened as Ibrox Park in 1899, it suffered a disaster in 1902 when a wooden terrace collapsed. Vast earthen terraces were built in its place, and a main stand, now a listed building, in 1928. A British record crowd of 118,567 gathered in January 1939 for a league match with Celtic. After another disaster in 1971, the stadium was largely rebuilt. The vast bowl-shaped terracing was removed and replaced by three rectangular, all-seated stands by 1981. After renovations were completed in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rangers F
A ranger is typically someone in a law enforcement or military/paramilitary role specializing in patrolling a given territory, called "ranging" or "scouting". The term most often refers to: * Park ranger or forest ranger, a person charged with protecting and preserving protected parklands and forests. ** National Park Service ranger, an employee of the National Park Service ** U.S. Forest Service ranger, an employee of the United States Forest Service ** Ranger of Windsor Great Park, a ceremonial office of the United Kingdom ** Includes the Keepers of Epping Forest who are charged to Range about the Forest in their duties. Ranger or Rangers may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Publications * Ranger's Apprentice, a series of novels by John Flanagan * '' Ranger Rick'', a children's nature magazine published by the United States National Wildlife Federation * ''Ranger'' (magazine), a former British comic magazine Fictional entities * Rangers (comics), a Marvel Comics sup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GNK Dinamo Zagreb
Građanski nogometni klub Dinamo Zagreb (), commonly referred to as simply Dinamo Zagreb (), is a Croatian professional association football, football Football team, club based in Zagreb. Dinamo play their home matches at Stadion Maksimir. They are the most successful club in Football in Croatia, Croatian football, having won twenty-five Croatian First Football League, Prva HNL titles, sixteen Croatian Football Cup, Croatian Cups, еight Croatian Football Super Cup, Croatian Super Cups, and one Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. The club has spent its entire existence in top flight, having been members of the Yugoslav First League from 1946 to 1991, and then the Prva HNL since its foundation in 1993. At the end of the World War II in Yugoslavia, World War II, the new League of Communists of Yugoslavia, communist government of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia considered Croatian clubs like HŠK Građanski as fascist and Croatian nationalism, nationalist, because they had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ajax AFC
Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax (), also known as AFC Ajax, Ajax Amsterdam, or commonly Ajax, is a Dutch professional Association football, football Football team, club based in Amsterdam, that plays in the , the top tier in Dutch football. Historically, Ajax (named after the Ajax the Great, legendary Greek hero) is List of football clubs by competitive honours won, the most successful club in the Netherlands, with 36 and 20 KNVB Cups. It has continuously played in the since the league's inception in 1956, and along with and , it is one of the country's "Big Three (Netherlands), big three" clubs. Ajax was one of the most successful clubs in the world in the 20th century. According to the International Federation of Football History & Statistics, Ajax was the seventh-most successful European club of the 20th century and ''The World's Club Team of the Year'' in 1992. According to German magazine ''Kicker (sports magazine), Kicker'', Ajax was the second-most successful Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
