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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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Daniel Piorkowski has not agreed to the contract offered him by the Melbourne Victory. He is set to move on once his contract expires in July.
The news was reported in The Age today, alongside a report about Milicevic leaving.
Piorkowski’s departure isn’t all that surprising, given his constant battle with injury over the past two season. […]

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Ljubo Milicevic and the Melbourne Victory have parted company.
It seems the defender and the club have agreed to “mutually terminate his contract”, which suggests to me that the Victory will not be required to pay out his contract - as would have been the case if they had fired him outright. Perhaps Milicevic has some […]

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Sebastian Ryall is joining the Olyroos as they prepare for the Beijing Olympics. He is one of 25 players picked by Graham Arnold for a training camp in Sydney, due to start tomorrow (Saturday).
Billy Celeski and Leigh Broxham are also both in the selection, but Nick Ward misses out because of ongoing injury.
Meanwhile, Ward looks […]

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One midfielder in, another one out.
But is Billy Celeski a same-for-same replacement of Adrian Caceres? It would appear not. Celeski is an attacking midfielder, but one who is best played in the centre of the park. It seems the wide position played by Caceres will still need filling.
After the Perth Glory’s 4-2 win over Sydney […]

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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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MVFC Awards close tomorrow. Vote now if you haven’t already.
After weeks of speculation and rumours, it’s been confirmed: Adrian Caceres has left Melbourne for the greener grasses of Gosford.
The Central Coast Mariners have added the attacking midfielder to their squad list for next year. Caceres will, however, be available for the group stage of the […]

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Billy Celeski, an Olyroo and former Perth Glory player, has just signed with the Melbourne Victory.
Earlier this week, the Glory released Celeski from his contract (he still had a year to go), paving the way for the midfielder to put pen to paper in Melbourne.
Celeski’s best moment last season came in mid-December, when he scored […]

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Stefan Moore, a 24-year old English striker with experience playing for Aston Villa, is coming to Melbourne this week for a two-week trial.
Moore captained Aston Villa’s youth team when it won the 2002 FA Youth Cup, and has been very highly rated. According to the ever-reliable Wikipedia, “Moore was rated by many as a better […]

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Surprise, surprise: Leandro Love will be one of the three foreign players in the Melbourne Victory’s Asian Champions League squad.
Frankly, I thought the Brazilian was on his way out, but Ernie Merrick has decided to keep Love on hand:

“We need to keep as many attacking players in the squad as we can. We’ve […]

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