MVFC Blog

The Melbourne Victory will play the Socceroos behind closed doors on Saturday.
For Pim Verbeek, the friendly allows him another chance to watch his selection of A-League players before finalising his squad for the Qatar match.
It’s not clear who Archie Thompson, Rodrigo Vargas and Kevin Muscat will play for, considering they are all still up for […]

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There’s still some 44 days to go before Melbourne lines up against Wellington in the 1st round of the new season, but all’s not lost for the Victory fanatic dying to see the team in action. Here’s a round-up of what’s happening for the next month and a bit:

Thursday, 12 July. Open training session at […]

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Frankly, it’s not looking much better than the match against China. If Australian media wasn’t interested in the friendly against China, you can bet they won’t care about a friendly with Tianjin Teda - even if it is the Mayors’ Cup.
What about the Chinese media? I’ve searched through some P2P program guides for Chinese channels […]

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Details have unfortunately been incredibly sketchy, but reports are now in that the Victory has lost 1-0 to China tonight in a match played over three 30 minute thirds. The only goal in the match has been credited to Changchun Yatai midfielder Wang Dong, who headed the ball home in the 35th minute. Kaz Patafta […]

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Tonight’s game against China will not be televised. Not here, nor there. I have searched high and low. I’ve even gone through the laborious effort of translating Chinese pages into English through Google and turned up with nothing. It appears that the Melbourne vs. China match won’t even be showing in China.
But of course, if […]

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An article in the Australian today says that Sydney has won the bid to play David Beckham and Co. (aka. the LA Galaxy). The game’s set to be played at Telstra Stadium on November 27.
Sucks for Melbourne, who had been contending that we should get the game. No doubt we would have been able […]

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Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to catch last week’s friendly against South Melbourne. But never fear, the Melbourne Victory website has posted up great videos of the goals for those of you who were also not able to make it to the game. Check them out there, or enjoy the slightly less refined version from YouTube […]

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Phil Chadwick from SportsAustralia.com has written an excellent article on the wildly disparate reports of last week’s game against South Melbourne FC by the Age and the Herald Sun. While the Age featured a match report under the headline “Melbourne Shows off its Class”, the Herald Sun painted a much bleaker picture, getting things rolling […]

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Some good man has started the Televise Melbourne Victory vs. China Match on SBS petition. I’ve just signed it and encourage you to do the same. It only takes a few seconds and there have been over 300 signatures so far. Hopefully a couple thousand signatures will provide sufficient prodding for SBS to get their […]

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The Victory’s game against China on July 4 may be shown on free-to-air television.
Well, we hope so. Victory chairman Geoff Lord has already been in touch with SBS regarding the proposal. From the Age:
“To my knowledge, this is the first time any Australian club side has organised a game like this against a national team […]

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