Surprised someone hasn’t already started a thread.
Anywho, I’m at Lambert Park for APIA’s opener against Marconi, 19:00 KO, unusual to be so late on a Sunday for APIA.
Decent turnout though many are here as a condition of playing for the juniors.
Beautiful evening for some suburban football.
In the women’s, belconnen won in the 119th minute after Canberra FC subbed off their best player and keeper for the shootout, only to concede directly from the restart of play.
In the men’s, Gunghalin beat Cooma 5-0. Cooma’s conceded early, before their keeper came out of the box for a through ball and missed, taking out the striker and getting sent. Lost anther around the 60th to back chat, and a third in injury time.
Gunghalin started the season on -6, finished 4th before winning 2 sudden death games to make the grand final.
Came to Sydney and was told by the 13s NSW coach that he was technically the best player in his age group but won’t be selected in the NSW team because he was too small.