Well we are deep, smack bang in the middle of the off-season, with the
First Grade squad only recently beginning pre-season training in the hope of a better
campaign for Sydney Olympic in 2017.
First order of business is news on our coach. After 3 and a half seasons Grant
Lee is no longer the coach of Sydney Olympic and from what I understand he will
be fulfilling a different position for the Club.
His tenure as coach you’d have to say was a mixed bag. 2013 was a write-off
when he arrived in difficult circumstances and he came in and steadied the
ship. The next 2 seasons, both 2014 and 2015 we genuinely had good football
teams, but unfortunately we were not capable of capitalising on the great opportunities
and we came away empty-handed on the trophy front in both seasons. 2016 was a
disaster which was not of his own doing, a late season surge was unfortunately
not enough for us to seriously make a challenge.
Unfortunately and sadly, zero trophies is the main legacy during the last 3 and
a half seasons.
Our new coach is an unknown quantity, Jaime Monroy Zamith, a Portuguese who allegedly
has experience coaching in Barcelona’s youth programs. All Sydney Olympic
Supporters are hoping he can deliver us to the top and of course we wish him
well.
Onto the Sydney Olympic communications front, it has been virtually impossible
to find out much about what is happening given there are no announcements
anywhere, minimal Facebook activity, not much on Instagram and zero updates on
the Club’s Twitter account for the past 4 months, (as I write this, they have
made a Twitter post, a very significant one at that). Again I will say this
needs to be rectified and soon.
As for news on the squad, to the best of my knowledge the following list of
players is what I believe to be our current squad at this current moment.
Obviously it is impossible to know for sure if it is 100% accurate. But here it
goes:
Paul Henderson, Eoin Montford, Mitch Stamatellis, Jake de Marigny, Niko
Tsattalios
Will Angel, Howard Fondyke, Yianni Spyrakis, Peter Makrillos, Jason Madonis,
Hagi Gligor, Paul Katsetis, Nikita Andricopoulos
Jacob Boutoubia, Michael Gaitatzis, Evan Patramanis
From what I understand a few players from the 20s will be moving up. The club
is also looking to sign 2 to 3 more players over the next bit of time, hearing
a couple of Defenders and a Striker.
Onto the ground situation, according to everything I have been told, the Tempe Re-Development
Project is the Club’s No.1 priority, as it should be. It is vital for the
future of the Club and would be great if we can pull it off.
As for the present situation with Belmore, the Club is endeavouring to improve
the relationship with the Canterbury Bulldogs and the Council which will see us
be treated better and more fairly than we have in the past few years.
Finally on the AGM front, the new Board has followed through with its promise
to sort through the clubs records and hold one this year.
The AGM will be on November 30 at 6:30pm at the Cyprus Club in Stanmore. All
Life Members and Club Members are encouraged to be there.
Details here:
http://sydneyolympicfc.com.au/news/sofc-agm-notification/
