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Archie Thompson and Rodrigo Vargas were announced as co-winners of the Victory Medal last night.
Kevin Muscat and Michael Theoklitos were joint runners-up, with Carlos Hernández trailing a point behind.
Both Thompson and Vargas picked up other awards as well, with Thompson receiving the SEN Player of the Year award and Vargas voted Players’ Player of the […]

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Pim Verbeek held his second training camp yesterday, this time calling in 29 players from the A-League. Eight of the players at the last training camp were left out this time, including the Melbourne Victory’s Leigh Broxham and Nick Ward.
Kevin Muscat, Archie Thompson and Rodrigo Vargas have all been picked again though.
Archie has already said […]

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Pim Verbeek announced his 22-man selection for a Socceroos training camp next week. Among them are Melbourne Victory’s Archie Thompson, Kevin Muscat and Rodrigo Vargas.
Only A-League players were picked for the training camp, though Verbeek insists there’s no guarantee that he’ll pick exclusively A-League players for the opening World Cup qualifier against Qatar on February […]

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Rodrigo Vargas was last season’s surprise package.
While he didn’t attract the media attention that the “Trio from Rio” did, Vargas proved that homegrown talent is as good - if not better - than foreign imports. While 2 of the 3 Brazilians became benchwarmers, local boy Vargas started 23 games. The only other player to start […]

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