The bidders for 2022 will present on December 1.
The full order is; Australia at 14.00 CET, Korea Republic at 15.00, Qatar at 16.00, the USA at 17.00 and Japan at 18.00.
Each presentation will be made at the Home of FIFA in Zurich.
That doesn't seem the hardest fight to win does it. Not the easiest but not that hard.
I wonder if we......
Canberra Football has 20,000 registered players and still we lack belief in ourselves.
Canberra Nearpost campaign is up and running:
Every dollar from Football must stay in football.
This should be our underlying question before we make any future decisions, and if the dollar doesn't stay in the game then we need to set ourselves up so it does.
And here's a few ideas free to the Capital Football Board.
If we had a cafe at Hawker, not just some hole in the wall job, but a cafe where people could watch their kids, in warmth, run their internet/emails etc and drink real coffee, football could make some money, every year.
Most Canberra parents want coffee, and are just not happy to sit on a crap bench in a shady stand watching their darlings run around on a very nice pitch - every Tuesday and Thursday.
We then could sell, in time from inside the cafe which is now a shop, football products to guess what, a football market, who visit every week. Man United shirts, boots, Belnorth gear etc. Get it, heard of pester power, heard of common business sense.
Add on, of course, the e-shop on the website (no we still don't have one, and it's 2010 and we have thousands of people who want football gear), where all monies go in the same proportion to the clubs, that each club gets presently from Athletes Foot, Sportsman Warehouse and Rebel Sports; and if those organisations make a profit so must our football community.
Of course these monies must go in some proportion back to the clubs, Canberra United, Club Futsal and a Canberra pathway for boys, whatever form that may take - post 17.
Add in Futsal to the mix, is it possible we could have our own Futsal Centre again recouping much of the money North Canberra Futsal for example give to ACT Netball. Is it almost $100,000 we give to Netball each year?
As Vikings Futsal Australia say, every dollar from the sport must stay in the game. Only then can we grow the sport.
So when you see a member of Capital Football Board ask them what's the plan to grow the revenue and grow the game.
We need a plan - do we have one?
So if ACT Cricket, the sports peak body in Canberra, can start to strategise to get a National Big Bash Franchise in coming years as they said they were in the weekends paper, why is Capital Football, our Peak Body so incompetent at getting any football for our young boys beyond the borders of our city?
Goulburn and Cooma are NSW Federation Members welcome in our league, it's time we had a plan.
When that World Cup is announced for Australia on Dec 2, if it is, will Canberra be celebrating the start of a strategy for football.
Or will it all just pass us by?
Just six World Cup games or so and nothing strategic for us to build on in the years running up to the Cup? Surely Capital Football has a plan to announce, but I fear we won't.
Tell me I'm wrong!
Canberra ABC Sports journo and friend Tim Gavel has taken the easy option, like many older Aussie sports journos, once more.
Now Tim is not a noted friend of the round ball game and rarely gives any coverage to the game on his one hour Saturday morning ABC Radio show.
So when the phone-in section is devoted to football for the first time this year, or so it seems in living memory, something must be up.
Tim announces that someone somewhere has said "if Australia gets the World Cup football will take over from the other codes as the number one sport."
And of course everyone who listens, the Union and League older fellas, are up in arms and on the blower in an instant.
All good craic of course, but how many times will Australian journos use the punching bag of football to scare the horses.
Were we afraid athletics would take over Australia if we got the 2000 Olympics or god forbid, swimming?
Most football fans follow all codes in Australia and I suspect you'll find many AFL, League and Union fans follow more than one sport; suggesting football would takeover if granted the World Cup in 2022; well it didn't in America and it won't here.
So Tim lift your game. If you want to talk football, how about talking about the A-League, the quality of football, the tactics, the players and what they bring, or Canberra United at length, add in the Socceroos or Matildas. In fact how about occasionally covering the Australian game with the same non-biased affection you have for other codes.
No couldn't do that could we. Scaring the horses is all we'll ever get on football on ABC Radio in Canberra it seems.
Canberra football fans deserve a little more air-time sometimes.
Then again we couldn't be bothered waiting. We just started our own radio shows, Farpost 3-5pm Sunday www.3xxfm.org.au and Nearpost 6.30-7.30 Tuesday and we even arranged to call our own Canberra United games live because the ABC might have it on TV but they'd never cover local women's football would they!
Football fans the world over are loyal and petty - forever.
So when this Celtic fan sees the once Gazza/Michael Laudrup workhorse, all bickering all kicking Glasgow Rangers hardman Iain Ferguson now Perth Glory Coach producing teams that play in his style, ie, no ball or grunt - although this Perth team doesn't even have that - a wry smile crosses my face.
But y o y o y o y o did Tony Sage and co, having invested millions, resort to Fergie.
Fergie promises lots of changes, and he has enough players bar a centre back or two to get this team going, a little better at least.
But really what is going on at Perth, from the Coach, a new Coach at that has there been a new idea come through. Bring back Dave Mitchell?
3-0 at home to the Leagues worst team, Sydney FC and another thrashing from the Mariners.
Two v Two winner stays on, keepy uppy challenge winners in all genders and all age groups and shoot the ball through the hole.
Winners galore - take the football challenge. All ages welcome.
What else would you do on a Saturday morning, 10 -2pm tomorrow Condamine St, Turner - go to the mall! Give me a break and say g'day!
Tonight the Melbourne Victory take on Adelaide in Melbourne.
Expect an open game from the Victory and the rampaging Adelaide, who haven't beaten Melbourne in 9 games, to rip em apart on the break. Matthew Leckie is back, rejoice!
and tomorrow in Sydney the mighty Sydney FC one win this season take on Fozzies' mate Ange Postecoglou free flowing football team - Brisbane Roar.
Sydney were much improved last week - much improved against the worst home performance from any side for some years - but a loss against Brisbane and their season is gone.
It's that crucial.
and on Saturday take a peek at the game in Port MacQuarie. Jets v Heart. The Jets are doing fantastically well off the field, avoiding any potholes put in their path, but can the do the business on the field.
Gerald Sibon, the magnificent dancing giraffe, is back for the Heart.
Great initiative from the FFA:
There's a few I'd like to...well shall we say not thank....but great initiative and I'll be waiting by my phone and facebook page all day.
Suspense could be worse than Valentines Day
On Saturday 30th October 2010 Football Federation Australia (FFA) will celebrate the Asian Football Confederation’s “Asian Coaches Day” by encouraging all current and former football players around Australia to get in contact with a current or former coach who has had a positive influence on their football development, whether by phone, text, email, facebook, twitter or in person, to thank them for their support
“Asian Coaches Day” will be observed throughout the region as the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) celebrates 2010 as “Asian Coaches Year”.
FFA National Technical Director Han Berger is a firm believer that if Australia wants to be a world power in world football then we will need better coaches to produce better players.
“Sometimes the role that a coach plays in the development of a player goes largely unrecognised. Today we are asking everyone who is involved in football to say a simple thank you to the people who have helped them develop and enjoy their football experience.
“Alongside developing the technical ability of young players, developing the quality of Coaches in Australia is one of the spearheads of the National Football Curriculum.
“We are currently working to improve the technical level of coaches and offering opportunities to those that are interested at coaching at higher levels through our advanced coaching licenses.
“With the implementation of these initiatives, Australia is well placed to be a competitive player on the world stage,” concluded Berger.
There are an estimated 40,000 football coaches around Australia with the vast majority holding a Community or Advanced coaching license
This year alone, FFA has issued 8,443 Community and 198 Advanced Coaching licenses to successful candidates around the country.
The Great Hunter Valley with Newcastle at it's hub. Shipping coal to China by the tanker load. Have you seen those monsters all waiting out at sea at night off Nobby's Point, tanker after tanker, it's an awesome sight.
And then Sir Tinkler saves the town, the football team. And invites, nay pays for Lord Beckham of Beckingham Palace to enter Energy Stadium.
Did the Newcastle name ever travel beyond the Hunter, for sport. Not through the Knights, certainly not through the sporting legend of Andrew Johns.
Who would have heard of the Knights win outside the Hunter or of Johns remarkable skills outside of Northern and Eastern Australia.
But the Knights while owners of the lease to Energy Stadium have stuffed it. The pitched is ruined for football, courtesy of moto-cross being allowed to rip all over the pitch a week or so ago.
So while the Jets will move the games elsewhere, this week to Port Macquarie, thus snookering Tinkler's plans to allow the first 10,000fans in free in Newcastle, it's the Newcastle Knights who have made the city a laughing stock.
Beckham's man, the LA Galaxy Chairman, was in town today to check the facilities.
Pathetic from the Knights, the whole country is laughing at you, and of course the world beyond will be intrigued by our and the Hunter regions planning skills.
A bit of humble pie would be nice right now from the Rugby League club! Professionalism in the Hunter?
Only the AFL could beat this with a World Cup Final lock-out and you wouldn't put it past those eejits either.
Still the game spreads to another town, maybe just maybe the Knights plan has back-fired.
David Fuentes Solarno, Peter Funnell and Eamonn Flanagan discuss all things Aussie football.
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David Fuentes Solarno, Peter Funnell and Eamonn Flanagan discuss all things Aussie football.
Costa Rica focus, A-League wrap and we preview all A-League games and issues and all your Matildas news right here. Quiz, dedications and all the news.
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We're talking A-League, Matildas and all the Aussie overseas news.
Western Sydney, Perth Glory, A-League preview and reviews and more.
So Western Sydney are to die on Thursday so we're told. No money. Not when they ditched Canberra for the West and not now.......leaving Canberra football exactly where?
The fair city of Canberra with thousands of players in it's city walls and surrounding lands still has not one State Youth team, not one State Premier League team, not one National Youth team and of course no A-League Youth team. How can we be so inept at providing our boys with a pathway after all these years.
How come the brains of Canberra football can't solve this problem, ever?
Does anybody with the keys to the city walls see the problem? Do they even care?
We have tons and tons of boys heading to High Performance Programs, presumably boys aspiring to the higher level, but no-one in the City able to assist them to get in the shop window.
But we'll take their money on a hope they'll do what exactly, have fun, improve, shine, get a trial, ACT Rep Football, or just be baby sat?
Surely we can do better, and isn't it about time we did?
When the Asia Cup Bid is announced for Australia in January, with six games planned for Canberra - will Capital Football, Canberra Football be able to take advantage?
Did we take advantage of the 2000 Olympics? Will we take advantage if the World Cup Bid is announced?
Or will the other codes merely get an upgraded stadium.
No strategy from the Capital Football Board on getting some real high-level football or is it the best secret in town!
And I'm not talking a couple of Mariners drop-in games.
We bloggers within the City Walls will not rest until the plan is revealed.
We have a W-League team; after being initially excluded we were able to overcome all barriers - all barriers - and thankfully we now have a team. It's great.
Now time to bring the same skills and acumen to our Boys. No if's, no buts. It's time.
Canberra Football: Boys are The Number One issue. Everything else should be put on hold until this pathway is opened. Everything! Is that clear enough?
In the A-League these days we expect teams to play football - even when they lose.
Did you see Perth Glory yesterday?
That's not football and perhaps we shouldn't be surprised as ex-Central Coast Mariners Assistant Coach Iain Ferguson is in charge.
Very odd appointment in view of what Perth have invested into the club this year, very odd appointment given Fergie's coaching record in Australia.
The Fury have improved hugely since he left, same the Mariners but then he's get the gig at Perth.
And they produce that style, that performance. Surprised Robbie Fowler came back this time aren't you?
Next Saturday at the Turner Fete, 30 October at Condamine St Canberra. 10am - 2pm.
The fete with a football stall.
Bring your kids to the 2 v 2 winner stays on comps, keepy-uppy seperate prize winners in all the girls and boys age groups, and of course the old shoot the ball through the Capital Football hole!
All welcome - bring your boots and shinpads, it's a fete!
Richard Hinds has written a fairly innocuous piece on why football hasn't taken over the whole of Australia.
No probs. In fact it's one of the more sensible analysis coming from the scribes who usually berate the game of football or look at it from afar...usually from an AFL Club Headquarters or the like.
He claims it should be an exciting time for Aussie football well Dicky it is. Take Young Socceroos, Matildas, Nathan Tinkler, Adelaide United, Melbourne Derby, the quality of the A-League, the Asian Cup announcement, the World Cup bid...what more do you want?
In Australia we've never had such a combination of promise and enjoyment coming and coming. Did you see how talented our Young Socceroos are - matches the best in any code, but have you written anything about this group - do you even know what it means, this potential?
My gripe is that these articles are always the same:
Written by Sports writers they always take the same veiled, or overt analysis or angle of the game, the crowds, the mention over and over of the great other Aussie games.
But never does Hinds, Masters, Gatt, Bermingham, Kent, Wilson and co and co ever actually write anything about football - analysis of players, clubs, the fans, the football.
But how many more wonderful "analysis" pieces that criticise and criticise the game do we need.
Hindsight...you've done it all before and before. But do you know ANYTHING about the game of football? Ask your kids...they do!
Adelaide United thumped Wellington Phoenix 3-0 but it was the quality of the football the movement off the ball, the deft flicks that had me loving my Friday night football from Hindmarsh.
Wellington Phoenix were good, at times very good and in the first half had the balance of play and better chances.
But this game like the A-League this season just got better and better and the football needed to make a breakthrough was intricate, fast, and even the players were smiling with the joy of their skill and technique
Is there a better team in any code in Australia than Adelaide United at the moment?
Are Collingwood more exciting, St George more interesting the United.
Maybe, maybe not.
And Adelaide United didn't even play Matthew Leckie!
It was a delight to watch and Travis Dodd came on to show the strength of the league leaders and turn the screw and the game.
But United shone all night; if you get a chance to see the A-League leaders, do it. You won't be disappointed, I promise.
I love my Reds at home on a Friday night.
Tonight the weekend starts with Leckie and co back at Hindmarsh taking on the Phoenix. Should be great if you like football, played with pace, skill and great viewing with a great football stadium and crowd to boot.
Brisbane v Melbourne Victory should be a great game both teams coming off wins and the Roar starting to flow..really flow.
And God help Sydney, bottom of the table and up against God himself in Robbie Fowler, thank god Wayne hasn't arrived yet, although knowing Sydney's luck this season Wayne will play!
I don't know if he has or hasn't but it's not going to happen is it.
But talk about a media beat-up Robbie Fowler has sucked in the Aussie media, nice one Robbie - April Fools anyone?
But unfortunately they all left Sydney at the start of the season.
Hyundai A-League 2010/11 - Leading Goal-Scorers
4 - Chris GREENACRE, Paul IFILL, Mathew LECKIE, Sergio VAN DIJK, David WILLIAMS
3 - John ALOISI, Leo BERTOS, Bruce DJITE, Robbie KRUSE, Chris PAYNE, Iain RAMSAY, REINALDO, Mile STERJOVSKI
Despite the gloom around some A-League clubs and crowds at the start of this season it is, unlike other codes, the International element of the game that will ultimately save Aussie football and the Aussie A-League.
The International nature of the game will allow Aussie football, with some smarts, to rebuild and re-invent itself time and time again. And this week shows more evidence of a boost to the local game at a time when things probably needed a boost in the short and long-term.
1. Newcastle Jets v LA Galaxy Beckham and Donovan. Wow! In Newcastle.
2. Young Socceroos - That front six. Wow, wow, wow.
3. Adelaide United expected to get a new owner this week. (Could this mean West Sydney comes in?) Wow!
4. And the Asia Cup 2015 will be played in Australia. Wow!
5. Clive Palmer, Nathan Tinkler, Tony Sage. Rich men in Mining want football to connect their business to Asia and elsewhere. And it seems it does.
There's probably more....but too much is just well.....too much
And God help us if we win the World Cup Bid, my confidence is starting to grow.
Aaron Walker and Eamonn Flanagan discuss all things Aussie football.
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Mr Bin Hamman you should resign as Head of the AFC.
What a joke. Read how fair and open the Head of the AFC is!
Responding to a question posed by INSIDER at the Leaders in Football conference in London about what would motivate his decision for 2018 – the best interests of football, the AFC or his home nation – Bin Hammam said that his primary concern when voting for a European candidate was giving Qatar the best chance of winning the right to host the 2022 finals.
“I will naturally be looking to the interests of Qatar because Qatar is bidding,” he said.
“This must not be surprising to anybody. We, the four [Ex-co] members in the AFC have said that we’d like to see 2022 in Asia and we have actually been very frank in our opinion.
“Naturally I believe that all those people who have got a bid, they will prepare to see that the World Cup in their own countries. I will decide first what is best [for Qatar].”
However, there is no suggestion that Bin Hammam is under investigation or that he has encouraged vote-trading.
Australia are sure to win the rights to host the Asia Cup in 2015, we're the only bidders. Although with the FFA we could still lose that!
And it will be a great tournament, one Australia could win.
But what plonker planning this bid has chosen to sink 6 or more games of this tournament into Canberra. More evidence of a lack of football growth strategy from the FFA.
The eight (8) Stadiums proposed in the Bid Book include Suncorp Stadium, Skilled Park, ANZ Stadium, Sydney Football Stadium, Parramatta Stadium, Canberra Stadium, Etihad Stadium and AAMI Park
The Young Socceroos went down to a goalkeeping blunder in the final minutes of their Asian Cup Final last night.
Mark Birighetti dropped a simple cross and Korea DPR prodded home to win the final 3-2.
But there was an awful lot to like about this young Australian side.
Tommy Oar showed some real class, and excitement with his dribbling and crossing creating two goals for Kerum Bulut himself turning in a wonderful centre-forward display.
Fox commentator Mark Bosnich thinks Bulut has a big big future. We'll see.
Matthew Leckie impressed again. What a forward line.
In the midfield Ben Kantarovski showed real promise controlling large parts of the game. What's not to like about this guy.
Alongside Ben, Mustafa Amini and Terry Antonis two guys young enough to play next time, are special talents.
So why did we lose?
Well a few missed chances at crucial times, and some calamity defending albeit on a dodgy bumpy pitch didn't help.
No-one says playing in North Korea is better than training in Europe but it clearly must be given this result.
For me, I was excited by the Aussie attacking talent in the front six. How special it's hard to say but really this could be the start of something big.
Antonis and Armini given their ages and performances are perhaps the most exciting talents to emerge.
Gotta love Fox Sports and the Asian timezone.
Looks like Fox are going to show Young Socceroos v North Korea in the Asian Cup Under 20 Final this weekend and it's live.
Check elsewhere for details but it's Sunday night Prime Viewing.
Have a nice weekend!
Here's a plug for me mate Peter Funnell and Nearpost Local blogspot.
It is a Canberra blog but also much much more. Peter provides a wealth of information from a variety of sources on coaching in the junior game.
As the man himself would say, "this is terrific stuff."
If you are the sort of person who loves reading about how to coach and work with the hundreds of thousands of kids who "just play," then www.nearpostlocal.blogspot.com is a must. Peter;s done the research has articles from far and wide...you just need to sit back and read, and sometimes listen when the poddies on!
Enjoy!
Mike Cockerill and I often disagree it seems. More me with him than him with me, although Mike does know who I am!
Mike has wrote a piece today criticising the FFA's plans to chop imported players from 4+1 (1 is an Asian import) to 3+1.
Mike often jumps up and down to support/demand our local players in the National team, and local coaches/mates to take the National job, but for once he's gone un-Australian!
Mike says it's not the time to cut imports, given the value of our dollar, and indeed the strength of the overseas players clubs attract these days.
I'd argue it's exactly the time.
Our Young Socceroos are on the march and we want every single one of them playing in the A-League asap as often as possible.
They just qualified for the Asian Cup Final overnight and this squad represent our future big time.
So less imports, we're only talking one, takes pressure off the A-League clubs financially and of course gives more possibilities that the Young lads will play more often.
FFA Technical Director Han Berger wants it, and I want it.
It's time, there are still many poor imports around, one less at each club won't hurt will it?
And of course it's the young pool of Aussies and returning Aussies that has finally set the league on fire.
Think The Fury, The Roar, The Mariners, Adelaide, Victory and even the Heart, but never think Sydney - most of their Young Guns are playing for other clubs.
Still our younger players are better prepared in greater numbers than when the league started - they need game time and it's now!
Now the Matildas head off to the Peace Cup in Korea, their first tournament since winning the Asia Cup and yet they are only taking 19 players for a three game tournament.
With the Socceroos playing just one game in the recent international break, even the All Whites played two, and recent Socceroos squads sitting on 19 as well the strong Aussie dollar is clearly not evident at FFA Headquarters.
Oh but that's right they spend all their money on the A-League!
Second Aussie Assistant Roo Coach - Is Robbie Hooker. Is our Robbie being asked to double up as the Matildas Assistant - we'll find out this week for sure.
And rumours the Aussie Young Socceroos Coach Jan Versleijen is possibly fleeing the coup come December - even prior to the World Cup in Columbia next year.
Something wrong in Paradise?
The obvious game to watch is the "Big Blue,2 between Sydney and Melbourne this weekend.
There is a lot hanging on this one for both sides; and God help the loser even at this stage of the season.
Can't see Sydney's defence holding out anyone but they should score...one!
For me Gold Coast United v Adelaide, the Reds have no Leckie or Flores so this could be their time to lose. Pity the game can't get a crowd, 20,000 for this game in that stadium would make for a better nights entertainment - dream on hey!
But why not take a peek at Brisbane Roar - at home. They are a high energy team playing an attacking brand under Mr Postecoglou. If they can find goals and they are starting to, 6 in 2, they could yet threaten Adelaide.
