Black & Green Official Balga SC Match Day Program BLACK GREEN. ALL FLAGS STATE LEAGUE Division Two Saturday 11 th April BALGA vs Fremantle City

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1 BLACK & GREEN ALL FLAGS STATE LEAGUE Division Two Saturday 11 th April 2015 BALGA vs Fremantle City

2 Board of Management 2015 Balga Soccer and Social Club Ground Princess Road, Balga PO Box 124 Mirrabooka, 6941 Phone (08) President Acting Secretary Treasurer Committee Member Committee Member Committee Member Committee Member Committee Member Committee Member Bar Manager Canteen Manager Senior Coach Assistant Coach Assistant Coach Physio Physio Reserves Coach Reserves Assistant Coach Under 18 s Coach Under 18 s Assistant Coach Ken Shorto Ken Shorto Darren McNally Keith Williams Wayne Courtney Jacob Aufdemkampe Gary Shorto Anthony Banham Steve Stacey Julie Basso Gemma Rojas Ljupco Taneski Amir Dzamastigic Lindsay G Duddy Jo-Anne Huynh Eva Yau Adrian Caloiero Antoine Aquilia Wayne Courtney Richard Tran

3 From the President Hello to you all to our first league game of Special welcome to our friends and opponents from Fremantle City, we trust the game today will be more of a contest when we last met. Our players have been working hard all pre-season and are now looking forward to going about accumulating points for their leagues this year. This weekend we will see all six of our senior sides in action here at Princess Road through today and tomorrow and we wish you all well for your season. After the opening rounds of the Cup games we see that only the women and the Vets are still progressing in their Cups. The reserves however put up a good performance against NPL opposition Cockburn on Monday and the first team's loss was a put in a better light when NPL Subiaco only just managed to get past our vanquishers, Kingsley, 4-3 last weekend. The Club is looking forward to taking steps forward on and off the park this year to re-establish our Club back into the higher ranks of football here in Perth. If you have any ideas or would like to contribute in anyway please come forward or put your written ideas in the suggestion box at the bar So enjoy today and the rest of the year, looking forward to singing our song soon. Go the black and greens. Ken Shorto Balga SC President

4 From the Coach Welcome to Balga Soccer Club to all supporters, committee members and sponsors from Balga and Fremantle City today. We look forward to the new and energetic showing from Balga after a disappointing 2-1 loss at the hands of Kingsley SC in the FFA Cup. A match in which we created many a chances early on although failed to capitalise on them, as we keep instilling belief in the players and a new playing structure for the past 3 weeks, today we look forward to furthering ourselves in the journey ahead and hopefully coming away with all 3 points. Much credit to the team as they have been working hard since my arrival at the club with the new coaching staff and with new additional faces in the squad. It will take some time to gel in playing an attractive style of football which will deliver us the results going forward. The key is that we are all on the same page, with commitment comes success, and that is what we are aiming for each and every week - a competitive and healthy squad willing to work for each other. Good luck to Wayne and Adrian today also in what should be a terrific day of football. Come on the BLACK AND GREEN. Yours in football Ljupco Taneski First Team Coach

5 2015 Season The 2015 State League Division Two season promises to be another exciting year, with now the possibility of two teams being promoted to Division One. The team that finishes top will automatically be promoted, while the runnersup will meet the second bottom club of Division One in a play-off. Forrestfield United will be strong favourites for the title after their disappointment of missing promotion last year. The club signed several Division One players prior to the beginning of last year, in the likes of Trend Wood and Rhys Loxley, and will be determined not to miss out in The teams that are likely to challenge Forrestfield are Rockingham City, Curtin University and Melville City, with Wanneroo City being the dark horse in the promotion race. Wanneroo were relegated last year, but recently signed Matt Debarro as senior coach, who has brought in a number of experience players. In the middle of the pack should be the likes of Fremantle City, Quinns FC and Joondalup City, all of who will fancy themselves a crack at the top four. Kingsway Olympic have a new coach in Tom Kilkelly, and should do better this year, while Ellenbrook United and the Kelmscott Roos are likely to struggle. What about our own club Balga? We have had many changes over the summer, which included the decision to appoint Ljupco "Bobby" Taneski as first team coach just after the completion of the night series. Ljupco has only had a few weeks to look at the squad, and has already made some significant new signings which we hope will help us push up the league table.

6 ROUND FIVE The Round Five draw of the FFA Cup was made during the week, with some interesting fixtures. The only two amateur clubs left in the competition were paired to play each other, with BB United being at home to Gwelup Croatia. This means a Sunday side is guaranteed to make the last eight of the WA rounds of the FFA Cup. In the only other match to have no NPL side involved, is Division Two club Joondalup City up against Mandurah City from Division One. First Division heavyweights Ashfield will travel to Dalmatinac Park to face Cockburn City, while Armadale will make the long journey to Bunbury to play South West Phoenix. Fremantle City will hope to give a star studded Perth SC side a run for their money at Hilton Reserve. The other fixtures are all NPL affairs, with Inglewood United up against a strong Bayswater City side, Sorrento will be at home to Stirling Lions, while Balcatta are against Subiaco AFC. Subiaco only narrowly beat Kingsley 4-3 in the last minute during the previous round. All round five games will be played on the ANZAC Day public holiday (Monday 27th April).

7 2015 Balga State League Squad Balga Soccer Club State League Squad FIRST TEAM Ali Mahamud Oliver Rigler Chol Kong Dimce Taneski Sahr Konomaid Lee James Trent Singleton Andreas Bouzinekis Nhat Hoang Gary Shorto Kyall Osborne UNDER 18 S Amir Kosori Nattawat Thongngom Gareth Alexander Cier Mayoum Gabriel Mapooth Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Nour Dut Muthiang Abbas Sheikh Jacob O'Halloran Caleb Scattini Isaac Conteh Adrian Toland Abbas Ataie Dinko Ahmetanovic Ayikk Deng George Duku Abdullahi Farah Samson Araya RESERVES Najib Rahimi Gabriel Mapooth Abiel Gebremarian Ali Mahamud Ilunga Tshomba Halim El-Arabi Ahmed Saeed Johnathan Gebremari Majok Achiek Aleer Atem Pouric Aguet Kyde Ngweryme Blue Doe Sei Tony Kyr Raymond Abgoi Daniel Gulliver Sadam Haj Aleks Rajcevic Yonas Abraha Kidaur Berhe

8 Previous league games against Fremantle City Balga and Fremantle City have met each other on ten occasions, all under the name of Fremantle United. Balga have also met East Fremantle Tricolore six times in the league when both clubs were in the top flight during the mid 1980's. Against United the current record stands as seven wins for Fremantle United, one win for Balga, and there have been two draws. Fremantle United last season gave Balga it's second biggest league loss in the club's history when it won 9-1. Balga's heaviest league loss ever was the 9-0 loss to Shamrock Rovers in the Amateur Premier Division in 2003.

9 Our Opponents The Fremantle City Football Club was formed as an alliance over the past summer between East Fremantle Tricolore and Fremantle United. Tricolore was formed in 1953 by Italian immigrants, and became a super power in WA football. It won state championships in 1963, 1964, 1965, 1970 and It's last season in the top flight was in 1987 when it decided to merge with Perth Azzurri and Balcatta Etna to form "Perth Italia". Tricolore continued as a junior and social club. Fremantle United was founded in 1977 and joined the Amateur League in It made the Amateur Premier Division by 1986, and then became one of the strongest Amateur clubs in Western Australia, winning eight state amateur league titles, plus five amateur cups. The club then decided to join the Saturday State League Division Two competition in 2012.

10 2014 Tables First Team Black & Green Reserves

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13 ROUND ONE The opening round of today's league season marks the 30th anniversary of Balga's first ever game in the top flight of Western Australian football after only fourteen years after the club was formed. The game was against Osborne Park Galeb at Princess Road Reserve. Balga started the game the strongest, and had the better of the earlier exchanges with Willie Kelly causing Galeb many problems. Stephen Sceats almost gave Balga the lead when his 20 metre shot just went over the bar. In the 24th minute, Bert Kirkpatrick with an inswinging corner found the head of Tom Burke who headed against the post, Kelly headed the rebound goalwards which was handled on the line. Kirkpatrick took the penalty and scored. Within 30 seconds, Galeb equalised from a thunderous free kick by Ian McAulley. A foul on Galeb's Steve Purcell in the penalty area resulted in a penalty in which McAulley converted to make it 2-1. Balga were desperate for the equaliser, and it nearly came in the 86th minute when Kirkpatrick was brought down just outside the box, but the resulting free kick was saved. In stoppage time Ray Illot had a chance to score for Balga, but again the Galeb defence stood firm. Balga squad vs Galeb: Emmens (GK), McKinley, Andrews, Hopkins, Burke, Brown, Sceats, Kirkpatrick, Kelly, Saunders, Sanderson. Subs: Illott, Garland. The proudest day in Balga's short history may have ended in a loss, but it was the start of three seasons in WA's top league. The first season in 1985, Balga ended the season on a high to avoid relegation in the last match of the season. The following year the club finished eighth before relegation in Even though 1987 was a difficult year for the first team, it was our Reserves who ended up being the best reserves team in Western Australia when the black and greens won the state championship.

14 Roll of Honour Life Members Ted Hutton 1974 Trevor Allen 1980 Barbara Price 1983 Dick Haneveld 1989 Milly Haneveld 1989 Anthony Eason 2001 Glyn James 2001 John Coulter 2001 Peter Dugan 2004 Darren McNally 2006 Dave Gordan 2007 Ken Shorto 2009 Anthony Banham 2012 Senior Club Honours Seasons in Top Flight: 3 (1985, 1986, 1987) State League First Division Runners-Up: 1984, 1992 State League Second Division Winners: 1980 State League Second Division Runners-Up: 1996 State League Third Division Runners Up: 1979 Amateur Cup Winners: 1975 Amateur First Division Winners: 1974 Amateur First Division Runners-Up: 2000 Amateur Second Division Runners-Up: 2013 Amateur Third Division Winners: 2012 Reserves Club Honours D'Orsogna Cup Runners-Up: 1986 State League Premier Division Winners: 1987 State League First Division Winners: 1991 State League First Division Runners-Up: 1992 State League Second Division Runners-Up: 1980, 1995, 1996 Amateur Cup Winners: 1976 Amateur First Division Runners-Up: 2007

15 BALGA SOCCER CLUB NEWS SUNDAY SOCCER There is more action at Princess Road tomorrow, with all our other senior teams playing at home. The action starts at 1pm when our women's side meets North Beach. This is followed by our masters team playing Sorrento at 3pm. On the other pitch at the same time will see our social side in action, where they are up against Carramar. Hope to see many of you down tomorrow! QUIZ NIGHT Saturday Night 23rd May. Keep this date free. Balga Quiz night at the club. Tables of 8 at just $10 per head. We are seeking prizes for this occasion if you can help. Also looking for a good MC for the night See any committee member if you can help in any way. JUNIOR FUND RAFFLE The Club is running its weekly Junior Fund Raffle again this year, with the chance to win $50 each week for a $10 investment each month in our Junior development. See the people in the Clubrooms each training night to enter.

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