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Wednesday 26 September 2007

ACT Under 15 Boys off to Nationals



Left to Right, Top: John Mitchell (Coach U15); Jack Pettit; Andrew Gibson; Louie Pochi; Zac Smedley; Stephen Domenici; Josip Jadric; Alex Meibusch; Marco Perinovic; Tom Rogic; Declan Poon; Jack Kaye; Karen Martin; Bottom: Phillipe Bernabo; Adrian Diaz; Christopher Bush; Joe Caruso; Ben Harrington; Danai Gapare; John Colley; William Campbell

Chris Gottaas writes.

The ACT boy’s under 15’s preparing for the 2007 National Youth Football Championships in Coffs Harbour this weekend.

The team will feature four Australian representatives with Christopher Bush, Ben Harrington, Danai Gapare and Stephen Domenici all suiting up for the Joeys earlier this year. Along with the internationals, the team is made up of Capital Football Academy players and ACTAS scholarship holders creating a strong and skilful squad.


The ACT will come up against Football West (WA), NSW Metro, South Australia, Tasmania and Queensland Metro in Group A with the top two to proceed to the semi finals with the rest of the group playing off for final standings.

In the 2006 Championships this ACT squad finished in 5th as the ACT Under fourteen representatives.

According to Capital Football’s Technical Director Ian Shaw the results aren’t the be all and end all.

“We’re very pleased with the squad and its strength will certainly turn a few heads in Coffs next week but having said that we don’t base our success on whether we return home as the national champions, it all depends on who handles the situation best on the day. We’re just hoping to mix it with the best and play some good football,” Shaw said.

Eamonn adds: From this week's championship the Joey's Under 17 squad for the first round of Asian qualifiers will be named.

The qualifiers are in Singapore in October.

Australia will play Norht Korea, Malaysia and East Timor in the group stage.

2007 Under 15’s ACT Squad:



GK – PETTIT, Jack
9 – GAPARE, Danai

2 – DIAZ, Adrian
10 – ROGIC, Tom

3 – CARUSO, Joseph
11 – DOMENICI, Stephen

4 – BUSH, Christopher
12 – POON, Declan

5 – GIBSON, Andrew
13 – MEIBUSCH, Alex

6 – POCHI, Louie
14 – SMEDLEY, Zac

7 – HARRINGTON, Ben
15 – CAMPBELL, William

8 – JADRIC, Josip
16 (GK) – KAYE, Jack

Coach: MITCHELL, John
Manager: MARTIN, Karen





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