Olyroos prepare with Malaysian tournament
By: Daniel | May 15th, 2008
Australia’s Olyroo (under 23) team are gearing up for the first match of the Intercontinental Cup in Malaysia tonight (Aussie time) against Croatia and then play Chile on Sunday 18 May (11:00pm AEST) before their final group match against Ghana on Tuesday 20 May (10.45pm AEST).
This should provide the boys (minus those playing for Adelaide and Melbourne mid-week in the ACL) with usefull experience in tournament situations and match fitness ahead of the Olympics since most of them havnt been bloody playing for 3 months!
A notable inclusion in the squad for the tournament that runs untill May 25th is Dean Bouzanis. Playing for the Liverpool youth team, Benitez rekons hes the best young goalie in the world. However hes’s also played for the Greek under 23 team as well and given Olyroo coach Graham Arnold a “play me or lose me to Greece” threat. Well it seems as if the coach has given in!
I loath the way he thinks he can influence Arnold’s decisions in team selection like that and think the kid should have his arse ushered back to Greece i don’t care how good he is, but alas its not my decsion to make.
You will also find that Mark Milligan is included in the side. As his ban from the previous post shows, he will be banned untill the game against Ghana… and thats the way uh huh uh huh i LIKE IT!
Olyroos Side - Intercontinental Cup Malaysia
Nigel Boogaard (Central Coast Mariners), Dean Bouzanis (Liverpool FC, England), Mark Bridge (Sydney FC), Adam D’Apuzzo (Newcastle Jets), Spase Dilevski (Universitatae Craiova, Romania), Aaron Downes (Chesterfield, England), Tarek Elrich (Newcastle Jets), Troy Hearfield (Wellington Phoenix), Jason Hoffman (Newcastle Jets), James Holland (Newcastle Jets), Adrian Leijer (Fulham, England), Trent McClenahan (Hereford United, England), Mark Milligan (Uncontracted), Stuart Musialik (Sydney FC), Nikita Rukavysta (Perth Glory), Matt Simon (Central Coast Mariners), Nikolai Topor-Stanley (Perth Glory), James Troisi (Uncontracted), Tando Velaphi (Perth Glory), Ruben Zadkovich (Derby County- England) and Michael Zullo (Queensland Roar).
Bruce Djite heads to Europe
See now this is the way you leave an A-League team Mark Milligan! Bruce Djite (also an Olyroo player) is leaving Adelaide United whilst playing for them and handing the reds a bit of cash through the transfer fees as well. Well done Brucey!
Although it looks like another one of the A-League’s brightest talents is heading to Europe (most likely Turkey)in pursuit of greatness its very much fair play to him. After 2 seasons playing for Adelaide, its clear that the 21 year old striker has learnt all there is to learn from the A-League and has shown enough promse in his performances to suggest he would become a fantastic player if he continued to develop in the european leagues.
This is what i want to see from the league, a young exciting player using the A-League as a platform to Europe… Fantastic!
I could have attached a compilation of all Djite’s goals for Adelaide Utd and the Olyroos, but i thought this would be much funnier! Its a vid of some of the United boys attempting to copy Wayne Rooney hitting the camera off the volley.
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