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This is bad: Carlos Hernández injured himself at training last week and is expected to miss six weeks.
Ernie Merrick said:

“It was just one of those training incidents with no one near him. He turned and his foot got stuck and twisted his knee.”

Six weeks means that the Costa Rican will miss Melbourne’s first three matches […]

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Thank you to everyone who voted in the MVFC Awards!
Voting is now closed. In two of the categories, clear winners emerged, but in the third, it was a very tight race.
Without further ado, here’s who you voted the best Melbourne Victory players in 2007/08:

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After ten days of voting, the A-League Awards wrapped up yesterday afternoon. Thank you to everyone who voted. And a big thank you to the other bloggers who helped nominate players for each category.
Without further ado, here are the winners:

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Carlos Hernández has been called on to play a couple of friendlies for Costa Rica in late January and early February.

… With the Victory out of the finals, it’s a great opportunity for Hernández to make an impression on national coach Hernan Medford.

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One important decision which Ernie Merrick will have to make in the next month is which international player he leaves out of the Melbourne Victory squad for the Asian Champions League.
Coaches have to get their 30-player squad lists in by the 11th of February. One of the stipulations is that each team can only have […]

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I remember a game at Telstra Dome earlier this season as an overweight mid-40s bloke with a packet of chips shouted: “Lay off the KFC, Carlos!”
At the time, it was a common sentiment, obviously fed by early reports in the media that Carlos Hernandez, arguably the Melbourne Victory’s most exciting new prospect, was overweight when […]

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Carlos Hernandez is not Fred.
Quite the obvious statement really.
But such was the impression Fred made on the A-League last season that commentators are looking at the Melbourne Victory’s struggle to get its first win of the season and pointing the fingers at Hernandez: “He’s not Fred!”
How insightful.
The Central Coast’s Tony Vidmar pointed at the absence […]

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It’s official: Carlos Hernandez is coming to Melbourne
The Fox (as he is known in Costa Rica) will be filling the void left by Fred’s departure. He has big shoes to fill, but it sounds like he has the feet to fill them. Ernie Merrick says he’s “a player of enormous pedigree who is still yet […]

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A little digging on YouTube and I found a collection of videos of Carlos Hernández, Melbourne’s latest recruit (at least that’s what Costa Rican press is reporting). Amongst them is this rather worrying video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvRnY9UjVi8

I guess Hernández won’t be replacing Muscat as penalty-taker any time soon.
It’s not all bad though. Check out the following video, demonstrating […]

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There is growing speculation that Costa Rican international Carlos Hernández will be making a move to the Victory. But who is he and should we be excited by this new prospect?
The original article to start this rumour was published in Nacion, a Costa Rican newspaper. The article claims that Hernández is in talks to join […]

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