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Geelong Community Cup
The Geelong Community Cup is an annual pre-season soccer tournament held in Geelong for men and women. The Cup was established in 1981 by the Geelong Advertiser newspaper led by soccer writer Bill Walsh, Bob Kocsiki, Billy Dorris and Jim Lippelgoes. The cup is one of the longest continuously run cup competitions in Victoria. It has been known as the Geelong Advertiser Cup (1981- 2005), the Geelong Community Shield, the Diversity Cup, Century 21 Cup, Go-for-your-Life Cup, Morris Finance Cup and is now named the Geelong Community Cup. The 1988 Sir Bobby Charlton kicked-off the semi-final at Bell Park Sports Club. Men's Cup winners Women's Cup winners The women's cup competition was introduced in 2020. {, class="wikitable sortable" , Year , Winner , Runner-up , Result , Venue , - , 2020 , Geelong Galaxy , North Geelong Warriors , 5-1 , Stead Park , - , 2024 , Geelong Galaxy , North Geelong Warriors , 1-0 , Stead Park , - , 2025 , North Geelong Warriors , Geelong Galaxy , 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soccer Cup Competitions In Australia
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed goal defended by the opposing team. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the IFAB since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to score goals by getting the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts, under the bar, and fully across the go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 Establishments In Australia
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Sport In Geelong
Sport is a physical activity or game, often competitive and organized, that maintains or improves physical ability and skills. Sport may provide enjoyment to participants and entertainment to spectators. The number of participants in a particular sport can vary from hundreds of people to a single individual. Sport competitions may use a team or single person format, and may be open, allowing a broad range of participants, or closed, restricting participation to specific groups or those invited. Competitions may allow a "tie" or "draw", in which there is no single winner; others provide tie-breaking methods to ensure there is only one winner. They also may be arranged in a tournament format, producing a champion. Many sports leagues make an annual champion by arranging games in a regular sports season, followed in some cases by playoffs. Sport is generally recognised as system of activities based in physical athleticism or physical dexterity, with major competitions adm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soccer In Victoria (state)
Association football, Soccer in the Australian state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria is organised by Football Victoria (FV). FV is a member of the national Football Australia. National representation Many clubs represented Victoria in the now defunct National Soccer League (NSL), three of which, South Melbourne FC, Melbourne Knights and Brunswick Juventus became champions. Along with South Melbourne, Heidelberg United, Footscray JUST and Mooroolbark United were NSL foundation clubs. At various times the following Victorian sides also competed in the NSL: Preston Lions FC; Carlton SC; Gippsland Falcons (also known as Eastern Pride); Collingwood Warriors; Sunshine George Cross FC, Sunshine George Cross; and Green Gully. Victoria is currently represented in the top-flight A-League Men by Melbourne Victory FC, Melbourne Victory, Melbourne City FC, Melbourne City and Western United FC, Western United. Victory and City also have associated teams in the A-League Women and A-League Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soccer In Geelong
From the early colonisation of the Victorian gold rush, Victorian Gold rush, mostly British migrants or students participated in a variety of ball games similar to British Association rules (soccer), rugby or the Australia game for recreation from late 1800s to the early 1900s. British migrants employed at the emerging industries took part in formal games in Geelong from at least 1914 when the Geelong City club was formed. World War 1 interrupted the establishment of the game in the region. A huge influx of the British migrants after World War 1 and the burgeoning industrial sector in Geelong aided the creation of the Geelong and District Soccer League in 1926. The 1930s saw the economic depression curtail recreational sport as jobs and employment take precedent. After World War 2 the arrival of European migrants from western Europe (Britain and the Netherlands), then later from eastern Europe transform football in the Geelong region. The emergence of ethic football clubs in the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Cumming
Tommy Cumming (born 19 June 1956 in Scotland) is an Australian former association football player and coach. Playing career Club career Cumming played for Sunshine City and Essendon Croatia in the Victorian State League before playing for Melbourne Croatia in the National Soccer League. International career Cumming played four times for Australia in 1980, scoring one goal. Coaching career In 1984 and 1985 Cumming, while still playing, coached Melbourne Croatia in the National Soccer League. Honours Sunshine City * Victoria Division One: 1977 Essendon / Melbourne Croatia * Victoria Division One: 1978, 1979 * State League Cup: 1979, 1980, 1983 * Dockerty Cup The Dockerty Cup is an annual association football single-elimination tournament, knock-out competition open to all Victorian clubs across the Australian soccer league system, Victorian football league system. The tournament is named after the fo ...: 1979, 1983 * Victoria Ampol Cup: 1980 References * {{DEF ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergio Escudero (footballer, Born 1988)
Sergio Escudero (エスクデロ 競飛王, ''Esukudero Seruhio''; ; born 1 September 1988) is a professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or striker for Victoria Premier League 1 club North Geelong Warriors FC. Born in Spain, he has represented the Japan U23 national team internationally. He is the son of Argentine-Japanese footballer Sergio Ariel Escudero. Career When Escudero was three years old, he moved to Japan because of his father's work and joined the local club team. After living in Japan for five years, he moved to Argentina and Escudero began his career with the Vélez Sársfield youth team, where his father, also named Sergio Ariel Escudero and uncle Osvaldo Salvador Escudero have played. Then he was called up to the U-15 Argentina national team training camp. In 2001, Escudero returned to Japan and joined Kashiwa Reysol junior youth team in Chiba and later moved to Urawa Red Diamonds junior youth team in Saitama. He scored many goals in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Horvat
Steven Horvat (born 14 March 1971) is an Australian former professional soccer player. Club career A graduate of the Australian Institute of Sport, Horvat began his career with Melbourne Croatia. He later played with Sunshine George Cross, North Geelong Warriors, the Melbourne Knights (for whom he won the Joe Marston Medal), Hajduk Split, Crystal Palace (although he didn't make a league appearance) and Carlton. He retired in March 2003 at the age of 32. Horvat made a total of 96 appearances in the National Soccer League. International career Horvat was a regular member of the Australian national side, making 32 appearances between 1994 and 2002, and participated in a number of international competitions, including the 1987 FIFA U-16 World Championship, 1996 Summer Olympics, 1997 FIFA Confederations Cup, 2001 FIFA Confederations Cup and 2002 OFC Nations Cup. Horvat also played in the game with highest scoreline in an international football match, when Australia beat A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noa Skoko
Noa Skoko (born 12 January 2006) is a footballer who plays as a midfielder for Hajduk Split. Born in England but raised in Australia, he represents Croatia at youth level. Club career Skoko joined the North Geelong Warriors and broke into their first team, playing in NPL 2 at the age of 16, prior to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic which cancelled the league season. He subsequently scored his first senior goal on June 4, 2022, against Northcote City FC. before joining the Hajduk Split academy in Croatia that summer. He was a member of the Hajduk Split team that reached the final of the 2022–23 UEFA Youth League, beating a high calibre of youth team clubs, such as Manchester City and A.C. Milan, as well as Borussia Dortmund, against whom Skoko scored in a penalty shoot-out that went to 9-8 in his club's favour. On 11 October 2023, Skoko was named by English newspaper ''The Guardian'' as one of the best players born in 2006 worldwide. Skoko made his senior club debut f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kris Trajanovski
Kris Trajanovski (born 19 February 1972 in Geelong, Victoria) is an Australian association football player and coach. Playing career Club career After playing with Altona Magic in the Victorian State League, Trajanovski attended the Australian Institute of Sport in 1989. In 1991, he joined National Soccer League team Preston Makedonia. He then joined Rockdale Ilinden in the New South Wales State League in 1992. Trajanovski joined Hong Kong team Happy Valley for the final six matches of the 1992–93 Hong Kong First Division League season. He returned to Hong Kong for the 1994–95 Hong Kong First Division League season, playing for South China. Returning to Australia, he joined NSL club Sydney Olympic in 1995. After two seasons with Olympic he moved to Adelaide City for the 1997–98 NSL season. 1998 saw a move to Marconi where he stayed until 2001. Again moving, he signed for Brisbane Strikers and played two seasons in the Queensland capital. In 2003, he joined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
