MVFC Blog

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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The Melbourne Victory doesn’t seem to be having much luck attracting new players.
Nathan Burns has re-signed with Adelaide United; and indications are that Sasa Ognenovski will be heading over there too. The Queensland Roar defender already seems to be burning bridges with his current club: last week, he got in a fight with Roar goalkeeper […]

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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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Last week I was wandering around some of the other A-League clubs’ forums and found a forum post entitled “The Worst Supporters in the Land” on the Perth Glory’s forum.
To quote directly from there:

“Well, we certainly have come full circle.
Once upon a time we had the best team in the land with the most vocal […]

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Early in December, the St George & Sutherland Shire Leader did a short piece about Nathan Elasi.
Elasi, it appears, has football in his blood. Both his father and grandfather were footballers - the latter even represented Australia.
And Nathan has been doing his family proud. A Young Socceroo by the time he was 17 and representative […]

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The Melbourne Victory has just signed Nathan Elasi, an 18-year old striker who has been playing with the Marconi Stallions.
Elasi, a striker, has played for the Young Socceroos on three occasions and was recommended to Ernie Merrick by Sebastian Ryall, who captains the Young Socceroos.
“We brought him down and he impressed us […]

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