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Friday 14 December 2007

Sarkies bagged by Aurelio Vidmar!

Kristian Sarkies is a dead ball specialist so everyone says. This is the gist of what Aurelio Vidmar, Adelaide United's Coach said last night on Total Football.

"But you know what" continues Aurelio "he's never scored a goal from a free-kick."

And the bagging didn't stop there!

And Sarkies was dropped last week from the squad. Still holds an Olyroos place and suffered similar humiliation in Melbourne last season despite Hiddink taking him to train on at the World Cup.

Should Aurelio Vidmar have bagged a player, a young player so publicly on Televison.

Bad move Aurelio. Have you ever heard the great managers like Alex Ferguson do such a thing to a young player.

Great TV, but really the player had no right of reply. Very undignified and perhaps we can put it down to first year mistake. But really with his experience in the game, Vidamr should no better.

If he has told Sarkies what is required, then surely that is good enough to see how the player responds.

Can't imagine Sarkies or the other players will be to impressed by the public bagging.

4 comments:

Neil said...

To correct Vidmar, Sarkies has scored one goal from a free kick, Melbourne vs Perth last season. Also his set pieces also set up a lot of chances if not goals, the Olympic qualifiers being a case in point. It may time for Sarkies to head overseas to further his career, maybe going to Holland would be a good option.

Eamonn said...

Vidmar also stated that Sarkies "goes missing" when the game gets difficult.

Big big criticism of a player on national TV. Very disappointing from Aurelio Vidmar.

Anonymous said...

This could well be a stroke of genius from Vidmar. He's been bollocking Sarkies in private for ages but Sarkies doesn't seem to have responded, so a public bollocking may be needed. What's the risk anyway? Why keep on the good side of a 'uncommitted' player when you can take the 50/50 risk and give him a national bagging in the off chance he will respond and become a wonderkid again.

Eamonn said...

seems Ernie had the same problem, but Arnie speaks highly of him..still don't think having a go in public is necessary...Sarkies will either respond to being dropped or not

he's a lot to prove to many people he's hardly secured a place in any A-League team as yet, surely for a young footballer that should motivate him...

public dressing down..no chance.