Not much news to report from the past 2 months,
the club website and official channels of Sydney Olympic on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter would
show you the same thing, or that could just be their usual activity.
Anyway, the draw for the 2020 NSW NPL season has been released:
Of course, as always with these things, they are always subject to change depending on conditions and other circumstances.
Here’s a reminder of our confirmed squad so far for 2020:
William Angel. Zac Mackenzie, Peter Kekeris, Thomas Whiteside, Niko Tsattalios, Alejandro Sanchez, Dimi Petratos, Darcy Burgess, Jason Madonis, Nikola Kuleski, Hagi Gligor, Billy Patramanis, Jack Stewart, Giovanni Panuccio, Paul Henderson, Anthony Bouzanis, Bai Antoniou, Alexander Lopez, Raul Beneit Romero, Adam Parkhouse, Fabio Ferreira.
Of the list, Billy Patramanis who was set to have a big season, has suffered an ACL injury and will miss most if not the entire season.
The club’s off-season policy of poaching players from Sutherland is a curious one. Sure, our coach is their ex-coach, but they have not been a successful club in recent years, so it remains to be seen if this policy will end up working out.
At the very least, the Sharks invasion has prompted some old Olympic Sharks jokes to resurface on the internet.
Recently, there have also been rumours of signing another ex-Sutherland player, striker Charles Lokolingoy, as well as former a-league player Sebastian Ryall, we will see what happens with those rumours.
It is also the end of the decade. We had 2 Championship winning seasons – 2011 & 2018 – we were Minor Premiers in both of those seasons as well.
We have had some good players play for the club in that time and have had some other good seasons during the decade, but no trophies or significant success outside of those 2 years.
As for players, I have selected an XI for the decade, some will agree and others will disagree. So here it goes:
That’s it for now, Merry Christmas and we will see you in the New Year.
