Monday, 12 February 2018

Sydney Olympic Off-Season – February

We are a month away from the start of the season and Sydney Olympic is smack bang in the middle of a series of pre-season matches, looking to fine tune things in readiness for Round 1.

So far during this preseason we have played 3 matches:
Manly United 0-2 Sydney Olympic
Sydney United 3-1 Sydney Olympic
Heidelberg United 2-4 Sydney Olympic

Obviously during the preseason you don’t want to be peaking too early and going all out, but in the most recent match against Heidelberg down in Melbourne we looked sharp and picked up a good victory.


Of interest, Tom Whiteside was at Right-Back and Jinya An at Left-Back. Not sure if that is the way we will be setting up this season, or if the Coach was trying a few things out.

This freed up Jason Madonis to push further up the park on the Right where he looks much better and Will Angel operated in his customary role out wide on the Left.


George Timotheou and Jake de Marigny who is coming back from a long injury lay-off were the starting CB’s, both did well. In the middle Nicola Kuleski and Hagi Gligor dictated the play while Max Burgess was playing in the No.10 position, this midfield combination seemed to work well.

New Striker Alejandro Sanchez looked the goods after putting in an impressive performance, hopefully he can be the difference for us in the final third this season.

Darcy Burgess, Stephen Athanaseris, Radovan Pavicevic, Rafa Jimenez, Yahya Elhindi got game time and Luke Watson came on to replace Paul Henderson too, so quite a few getting a run.

Overall it was a good performance with much to look forward to.

If you want to and you haven’t already done so, sign up to be a Sydney Olympic member this season and support the Club and the Players.

https://www.sydneyolympicfc.com/news/season-pass-now-on-sale/

https://form.jotform.co/73527249115861


A Full Membership is good value at only $100, it will get you into all 11 home games for 2018, access to the AGM and I’m sure the Club will throw in a scarf and polo and things of that sort, so become a Sydney Olympic Member today.

Click on the links, call the Club Office (02) 9787-7890 or go to the Club Office in person at Belmore Sports Ground between 10am-4pm Monday to Friday.

Information about our final preseason matches are as follows:

Saturday, February 17 vs. Bonnyrigg @ Valentine Sports Park @ 5pm.
Sunday, February 25 vs. Sutherland @ Seymour Shaw Park @ 6.30pm.
Sunday, March 4 vs. Blacktown City @ Lily’s Football Centre @ 6pm.



3 comments:

  1. Why has the club not tweeted in over 3 months?

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  2. I think that Sydney Olympic FC will have a good team this year.

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  3. What a basket case we have become ... sacking coaches is now the norm for this proud club and the questions have to be asked what on earth is going on a week before the season.if it was results based I hope Gorkan knew that as trials are usually for experimentation and giving possible fringe players a go... was it the players who had enough and if so why are they calling the shots?strange decision so close to the year

    I am extremely worried about this season and the possibility of relegation. did anyone notice that the 20’s and 18’s results weren’t published on the weekend and being there I can confirm both sufferered extremely heavy defeats and given last years form for both teams we should be very worried if 1st grade struggles

    And let me bring up this Karim assistant gentleman,is he the replacement for Peter Zorbas?it’s extrenely ovbious to many people at the club that his coaching is not up to scratch (20’s was a disaster last year with multiple resignations only to be bought back ) and he is here for one sole purpose and that is taking a certain son to trials in Germany every 2 months with his connections yet somehow he sits as the right hand man in an extremely important role when clearly Zorbas is the better option yet unwanted is this how we expect to move forward by leaving a club legend like Zorbas out of the picture and employing people like this.cmon Olympic let’s look after those that have served us well Zorbas knows the boys inside out they played for him last year they would do it again and he is clearly the best number 2 out there for us

    Interesting year ahead , I hope we don’t get caught up in a relegation battle and we make the semis which would be a great result

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