BREAKING | The Caltex @Socceroos are delighted to announce the appointment of Bert Van Marwijk as our new Head Coach. #GoSocceroos. https://t.co/o4ufIs40WM pic.twitter.com/h7byLo2WGR— Subway Socceroos (@Socceroos) January 25, 2018
Oh look, another thing Australia is doing better than the KNT. This man should be our coach right now if not for the idiocy of the KNT.
Good short term appointment for Australia. Thank god Ange( fuçk that spinless kunt)is gone now we can focus solely on the World Cup. Bert knows our players strength and weaknesses since his time managing Saudi Arabia. He might not be the big name like van gaal is, but his conservative approach should help us prepare for the World Cup a lot better. We still won’t progress though, although the journey will be a lot smoother than under some other big name who wouldn’t have the time to study the players properly.
I can't provide you the source, but I think I read somewhere (probably Duerden's article) that BvM didn't like how Saudi FA refused to renew contract for the Dutchman's assistants (or outright fired them without his consent).
Yeah, also seeing about it, Australia would’ve automatically qualified if we didn’t stuff up against Thailand.
Haha I wonder too but KFA didn't hire him for the same reason, he didn't want to go to Korea but preferred stay at home.
Fkcing hell... Incompetent KFA too stubborn to get a good manager like this and Australia scoops him up. Ever since Stielike and Marwijk were fired, I've wanted this man to be coach. Even back when Hong Myung Bo was resigned, I wanted this man as our coach. How disgraceful.
The French league having a +1 Asian spot? The Chinese league doesn't even have an +1 Asian spot anymore lol. 957007072666816513 is not a valid tweet id
That's great news. We're neck and neck with Japanese for successful imports so a lot of those spots could go to our boys.
embarrassed to say that some English nonleague football leagues probably get higher attendance than our top 2 leagues
holy moly. Saw Tianjin Fc (KKW's team) and saw that they have Axel witsel, Modests and Pato. Its funny how they causally have big name player. Also atleast in training KKW has to defend against those guys
Not attacking you in any sort of way, but training with good players doesn't mean crap in the Middle Eastern/Chinese league. If that was the case, Jang Hyun-soo, Hong Jeong-ho Kim Young-gwon, Kim Ki-hee, and Kim Ju-young would have been half decent defenders by now.
Ok y'all I tried ranking/grouping the top teams in Europe right now. Well only considering the top 5 European teams. Anyway, I'm curious what people think. A++ Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern A+ Manchester City, PSG A Juventus, Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham A- Arsenal, Atletico Madrid, Napoli B+ Internazionale, Roma, Lazio, Valencia, RB Leipzig, Borussia Dortmund, Bayer Leverkusen, Schalke 04, Monaco B Borussia Monchenglacdbach, Hoffenheim, Villarreal, Sevilla, Everton,:Leicester City, Marseille, Lyon. Thoughts?