Anyone see that article on SBS news? A French consortium headed by Chrisitan Karembeu is looking at gaining entry into the A-League by 2012. Apparently there is no shortage of offers for financial backing from France & also some French clubs said they would be happy to help by loaning young players to the club.

Canberra To Join The NYL

EXCLUSIVE: Canberra’s A-League bid head Ivan Slavich says Canberra will join the National Youth League possibly as early as next season as the capital city’s push for the A-League continues.

Slavich says the FFA have asked them to form a NYL side and he says his bid will front it but it would primarily be funded by the ACT government and l...

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don't immediately dismiss this idea just hear me out. i'm not talking now, i'm talking 30 years time when football is up there with AFL as the biggest sport.

now i know that people will just say let's just focus on getting one tema but i believe that we can support two teams harnessing the existing rivalry between north and south canberra.

for this to happen south can...

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A-League backer on verge of forfeit

BY MERRYN SHERWOOD
1/11/2009 9:42:00 AM

FRUSTRATED Canberra A-League bid leader Ivan Slavich is on the verge of walking away from his push to secure the capital its own team in the national soccer competition.
More than a month after the sport's governing body Football Federation Australia gave the 12th A-League licenc...

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This thread is for all about the AIS youth team that is based in Canberra. We will just keep their results, news etc. in this thread.

FFA chairman Frank Lowy targetting 14-team A-League

By Marco Monteverde
November 09, 2009

A 14-team A-League plus a national second division competition remains on Frank Lowy's agenda, but even the ambitious FFA chairman admits it is time to take a "breather".

Having only this season expanded from eight to 10 teams with the inclusion o...

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This probably doesn't belong in this section, but I realise that most people look in this sub-forum so I will post in here.

At tonights game between Central Coast Mariners and Adelaide United, in the 2nd half I and around 10 others decided to move to the Adelaide United army as there wasn't many other people from the forum with the army.

So we got all the banners tha...

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Try and bring the current best possible players from the ACT. This is what I found:


----------------------------------Adam Casey--------------------------------------

Steven Lustica----------------------------------------------------------Kofi Danning

-------------------------Carl Valeri--------Kaz Patafta----------------------------
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We're going to introduce a monthly awards type system, these are the categories:

The Capital punishment forum award(the poster of the month)
The members award (Post of the month)
The canberra forum award (given to the worst post of the month)
The Chris Tanner award (worst topic)
The Ivan Slavich award (Best topic)
The Realcanberra23 award(Call of...

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being a passionate canberra a league supporter it really saddens me to ask the question: should we close this section of the forum???