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DateTitleCategory
28 Jan 2012Registrations are open for season 2012!! Club
27 Jan 2012Senior Men’s Coach Appointed! Seniors
19 Dec 2011Eltham Redbacks Information / Registration Day – Sunday 12th Feb (11am – 2pm) Club
30 Nov 2011Senior players awards for 2011 Seniors
07 Nov 2011Beautiful football in Papua New Guinea Club
06 Nov 2011Redbacks in the Victorian Champions League Club
02 Nov 2011Maximus gets some Redback face-paint! Uncategorized
15 Oct 2011Summer of Football Kicks Off! Small-sided Football
11 Oct 2011What is ‘Groove Train’? – The Redback in Japan Club
25 Sep 2011Presentation day raffle: Vaughan Coveny signed ball Club

Registrations are open for season 2012!!

Malcolm @ 8:43 am January 28, 2012   No Comments →

Registrations are now open.

Click the link under “Registration” and follow the instructions (available as a PDF download).  Note that this year coaches need to register as well as players.

Credit card payments are also available via the online registration system.

Senior Men’s Coach Appointed!

Malcolm @ 3:46 pm January 27, 2012   No Comments →

Eltham Redbacks FC is pleased to announce that Ivan Jurinovic has been appointed as Head Coach of the club’s Senior Men’s Team who will be competing in Provisional League 3 SE in 2012.

Ivan was previously the Senior Football Coach at La Trobe University. In season 2011, La Trobe University was a Silver Medallist at the Southern States Games, a Semi Finalist at the Australian University Games and finished 4th nationally out of all the Australian Universities competing for the Australian Universities Championship. Prior to this position, Ivan was the Senior Coach at Yarraville competing in the Victorian State League Division 3 North West. During his playing days, Ivan represented Victoria at youth level and also played in the VPL.

The President and the Committee welcomes Ivan to the club and wish him well for Season 2012.

Pre-season training for the Men’s PL3 team has already begun. All players (new or existing) over the age of 15 who are looking to play senior football in 2012 are required to attend. Please forward any enquiries to admin@elthamredbacksfc.org.au

Eltham Redbacks Information / Registration Day – Sunday 12th Feb (11am – 2pm)

Malcolm @ 7:20 pm December 19, 2011   2 Comments →

New to the club?  Not sure how it all works?  Come to our information day (Sunday 12th Feb 11am to 2pm) and find out.  All of the people who make the club work will be down at our Wattletree Rd club rooms (just behind the synthetic pitch) so all of your questions can be answered.  Registrations are now done online so although we cannot register your child we can assist you in explaining how it all works.

We have football programs for children as young as 3 years old and we are also a strong girls football club (one of only a handful of Melbourne clubs to field all girls teams in U9 & U11).

As the 5th biggest football club in Victoria we are well placed to give your child a wonderful football experience in 2012.

 

GO REDBACKS !!!

Senior players awards for 2011

Pinky @ 9:55 pm November 30, 2011   Comments Off

The Senior Presentation Night was a great success this year, held at Groove Train in Plenty Valley – the sponsor of the men’s teams.

A big congratulations to the Women’s SL3 team in particular for an outstanding season and congratulations to the following players on their hard-earned awards.

Women State League 3 North West

Player of the Year – Kate Hodgson
Runner-up Player of the Year – Laruen Brazzale
Coach’s Award – Nakita Anderson

Women Metropolitan League

Player of the Year – Sarah Paoli
Runner-up Player of the Year – Ellen David
Golden Boot – Nicole Licastro

Men Provisional League 3 South East

Player of the Year – Leith Robertson
Runner-up Player of the Year – Ryan ‘Pinky’ Adams
Coach’s Award – Chris ‘OJ’ Jones

Men Provisional League 3 South East Reserves

Player of the Year -Andrew Lamers
Runner-up Player of the Year – Nathan Jones
Coach’s Award – Nick Lyell

Men Thirds 3 North West

Player of the Year – Ben Telford
Runner-up Player of the Year – Ben Gutteridge
Coach’s Award – Tom Inman

Thirds 5 South East

Player of the Year – Brian Gardner
Runner-up Player of the Year – Gary Frost
Coach’s Award – Naylyn Gaffney

Congratulations for your hard work and we look forward to 2012 with some great new recruits across the board and with the women now competing in State League 2 NW after their promotion!

Beautiful football in Papua New Guinea

Pinky @ 12:46 pm November 7, 2011   2 Comments →

Brendan Mulcahy with the Kavieng United FC he coached for a month (Click for full size)

By Brendan Mulcahy

Whilst many Australians associate the country of Papua New Guinea with violence and crime, as depicted frequently in the media, in fact the land of the bird of paradise is a place of beautiful scenery and beautiful people.  So what better place to play “the beautiful game”?

In September this year I chose to undertake my final year, 5-week medical elective placement in the North Eastern islands of PNG, assisting at the Kavieng General Hospital in the capital of the PNG province of New Ireland.   I am finishing my final year of my medical degree at Monash University and am permitted to organise a medical elective anywhere in the world.

It was the activities outside of the local hospital that allowed me the best opportunity to engage with the local community.  Having been an Eltham Redbacks centre forward for 5 years and top goal scorer for both club and league in 2010, it was the local football (or in Papua New Guinea “soccer”) culture that proved a common language in a foreign land.

Each Sunday a crowd would gather around the local soccer field to cheer on and support the dozens of local senior men’s and women’s football teams.  The competition was much better organised than I had expected to find in PNG, as both rugby and AFL are also very popular codes.  One of the clubs invited me to join their weekly training, and armed with a bag of equipment donated by the Redbacks including training bibs, cones and balls, I coached their senior men’s team for over a month.  Kavieng United Football Club fields two senior men’s teams and one woman’s team each weekend across 3 different leagues.  ‘Alfred’ the Head Coach has up to 40 senior players under his instruction at any one time.  Without floodlighting the teams can only train between 5pm when the players finish work and 6pm when daylight fades, so to allow themselves enough hours of training each week, they train Monday to Thursday, with a game each Sunday afternoon.

There is fantastic raw talent amongst the young men of Papua New Guinea, the same inbuilt athleticism we come to expect of Australia’s own indigenous youth.  But limited resources including a lack of balls, basic equipment and facilities restricts football from reaching its true potential in PNG.  The young men usually train either in thongs or bare foot, saving the rare and expensive soccer boots for weekend matches.  However, with the introduction of even the most basic training equipment including cones to mark out training drills and bibs to divide the players, one Redbacks striker was able to improve the tackling, possession football and finishing so much over the month that on my final weekend in Kavieng, the men’s team played the league leaders and defeated them 7-5 in a thrilling match that stayed close, with scores tied at 3-3, until after half-time when United blew the league title race wide open with by taking an insurmountable 7-3 lead with 15 minutes to play.  And at the end of 90 minutes, to the roar of the local spectators and against a backdrop of lush tropical jungle, for the 11 men of Kavieng United Football Club, the win over their local rivals felt as good as winning any professional competition anywhere else in the world.

Redbacks in the Victorian Champions League

Pinky @ 9:43 am November 6, 2011   1 Comment →

The Victorian Champions League is well under way now with Round 3 just completed. Club members will be delighted to know that the Eltham Redbacks has very good representation at our local club the North East Diamonds in both the coaching and playing ranks.

A big congratulations to the following players and coaches at the Diamonds:

Players
U13 Girls – Zoe Houghton, Keely Lockhart & Eleanor Wiley
U14 Boys – Charlie Bosjnak-Hudson & Patrick O’Connor
U15 Boys – James Ignatidis
U17 Boys – Max Cornford

Coaches
Head Zone Coach – Vaughan Coveny
U14 Boys – Head Coach – Jason Czorny
U14 Boys – Assistant Coach – Andrew ‘Kenta’ Kentapozidis
U14 Boys – Team Manager – Simon Garlick
Goalkeeper coach – Santo Dell`Aquila

This is a really great effort and representation in the Diamonds from our club and we look forward to keeping tabs on these teams over the summer so good luck with the remainder of the summer season!

Also, a big congratulations to one of our talented players Angus Wiley who was recently selected for the FFA Skill Acquisiton Program. This is a huge achievement for Angus and for our club, being selected  from a large group of talented 8 to 11 year old players for this program (Angus is 10yo this year).

Well done to all of these players and coaches on their achievements!

Maximus gets some Redback face-paint!

Pinky @ 12:37 pm November 2, 2011   Comments Off

Under 9 small-sided football player Maximus Rumoro found himself at the opening of The Jolly Miller cafe in Ballarat and when the opportunity to get some face-paint done presented itself he did not hesitate to get a nice big Redback on his cheek!

Maximus is U16′s player Karl Rumoro’s brother – Karl of course now has the nickname ‘Plasma’ in the men after accidentally smashing a TV at the men’s away game in Baxter earlier during the season (after it was carelessly balanced against a chair in a busy area).

Great work Maximus! The Committee loves your choice of ink.

If you have a photo that you would like to share with the club do not hesitate to email us! admin@elthamredbacksfc.org.au

Maximus with his Redback (click for full-size)

Summer of Football Kicks Off!

Malcolm @ 12:48 pm October 15, 2011   Comments Off

Eltham Redbacks Summer Program kicked off this Saturday (15th October) with TECHfootball+  and  Summer 5-a-Side Games.

The first group of TECHfootballers kicked off at 8.30am under the watchful eye of TECHfootball+  program director Vaughan Coveney.

James (from Red Rockets) takes on the Eltham Power

Between 9.30am and 11am 12 teams of boys and girls (U7 to U11) played there first 5-a-Side game of the summer competition.  There were many hard fought games including a nail-biting draw between Eltham Power (an All girls team) and Red Rockets.  Lovely weather and wonderful football – what more could you ask for!

The summer program concludes on December 17th.  Inquiries to  SSFU11@elthamredbacksfc.org.au

What is ‘Groove Train’? – The Redback in Japan

Pinky @ 4:46 pm October 11, 2011   2 Comments →

Runner-up Player’s Player of the year and commitee member Pinky knew enough Japanese to get someone to take  a happy snap of him at Shimizu S-Pulse vs. Nagoya, J-League game at the Outsourcing Stadium, Nihondaira last week!

Unfortunately the Redback is the colours of Nagoya (the visiting team) so I think the guy to his left can’t quite work out what’s going on with a Shimizu supporter taking the photo.

Has the Redback been somewhere we should know about? Email a pic and a description to admin@elthamredbacksfc.org.au and we’ll get you proudly displaying the Eltham colours up on our website pronto!

Presentation day raffle: Vaughan Coveny signed ball

Pinky @ 9:36 pm September 25, 2011   Comments Off

Congratulations to Matthew Rottura – raffle winner of the Vaughan Coveny autographed football!

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