Adelaide announce squad for AFC Champions League quarter finals
Adelaide United coach Aurelio Vidmar has named his squad for the knockout stage of the AFC Champions League, with Alemao being the unlucky player to miss out because only three foreign players are allowed by the Asian Football Confederation.
““We made the decision to take Alemao out unfortunately. It was a tough decision but we just thought that with Cassio and Diego, they’ve already been there and know what to expect, and Cristiano has got a fair bit of experience,” Vidmar said.
“We have also got cover if we have to on that side but it wasn’t an easy decision because I would have liked to have all of them in there.”
“All four of them want to play but unfortunately I can’t have all of them in there so that was the decision we made. You have to play within the rules and that’s the way we decided to go.”
Alemao’s only chance of playing in the AFC Champions League is if one of the other foreigners gets injured more than three days before the game.
Vidmar also announced that Adelaide United’s first four Youth League signings have been added to the AFC Champions League squad.
The first leg of Adelaide United’s Quarter Final against the Kashima Antlers is on Wednesday, September 17 in Japan before the return leg on Wednesday, September 24 at Hindmarsh Stadium.
Adelaide United FC AFC Champions League Knockout Stage Squad: Paul Agostino, Joel Allwright*, Fabian Barbiero, Mark Birighitti, Cassio, Robert Cornthwaite, Angelo Costanzo, Cristiano, Diego, Travis Dodd, Eugene Galekovic, Scott Jamieson, Michael Marrone*, Daniel Mullen, Matthew Mullen*, Sasa Ognenovski, Lucas Pantelis, Paul Reid, Jonas Salley, Kristian Sarkies, Jason Spagnuolo, Alex Sunasky*, Michael Valkanis, Robert Younis.
* denotes AUFC Youth League Player
Australian football weekly roundup
A number of issues to touch on after a busy few days for Australian football.
Australia v. Ghana
The embarrassment surrounding the non-playing of the Ghanaian national anthem could be taken as a harbinger of the evening as a whole, for the Socceroos’ performance was largely embarrassing.
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Bruce Djite - Archie the second
If the tetchy negotiations and media blurtings surrounding Bruce Djite’s imminent overseas move appear somewhat familiar, there’s a good reason.
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Adelaide Utd v Binh Duong Asian Champions League football goals and highlights
NATHAN Burns has single handedly put Vietnamese side Binh Duong to the sword earlier tonight by setting up 3 goals with an amazing individual display at Hindmarsh Stadium. All 5 goals were scored in the 2nd half after a first half dominated by Adelaide.
See all the match goals and highlights for Adelaide Unite v Binh Duong
Played: Wednesday 23 April 2008
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Adelaide United give 4-1 footballing lesson to Binh Duong
NATHAN Burns has single handedly put Vietnamese side Binh Duong to the sword earlier tonight by setting up 3 goals with an amazing individual display at Hindmarsh Stadium. All 5 goals were scored in the 2nd half after a first half dominated by Adelaide.
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Adelaide United favourites to progress against Binh Duong in ACL
ADELAIDE United are confident ahead of their ACL match against Vietnamese club Becamex Binh Duong at Hindmarsh Stadium tonight. A win tonight will put Adelaide in the box sear to progress to the knockout phase of the Asian Champions League.
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Adelaide United win 2-1 in ACL
ADELAIDE United stay top of their group in the Asian Champions League with a solid 2-1 win over Binh Duong of Vietnam.
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Melbourne Victory and Adelaide United - Asian Champions League
A CONFIDENT Melbourne Victory side can beat Japan’s Gamba Osaka when they clash in tonight’s Asian Champions League (ACL) group match in Melbourne which kicks off at 8pm local time.
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Mixed results for Aussie teams in ACL
Chonburi hero Stephane Baga scored two late goals to help his side to victory against Aussie favourites, Melbourne Victory by 3 - 1.
Baga was introduced into the game with only 20 minutes to go but that didn’t matter as he single-handedly downed the Victory.
Brazilian Fabiano scored the opening goal on the stroke of half-time but his goal was canceled out only two minutes into the second half by Victory striker Danny Allsopp.
However, Baga restored Chonburi’s lead when he scored a screamer from 30 metres out with 11 minutes to go.
He then went on to strike the killer blow with his second goal deep into injury time.
The loss leaves Melbourne in third place in Group G by 1 point.
In the other match played in Adelaide, China’s Changchun Yatai went away with a point after a 0-0 draw.
Untied dominated for most of the match and were unlucky not to get all the points when Diego hit the crossbar with a rasping strike from miles out.
Tatai was missing three key Chinese national team players ahead of next week’s match against the Socceroos.The two best chances of the first half fell to Yatai. The first was in the 10th minute when a free-kick was floated in to the path of Zadi Dah, but his effort was headed straight to Adelaide custodian Eugene Galekovic. Dah had another chance half-way through the first half when his shot scraped the outside of the post.
Australian international, Nathan Burns put a header on target in the eighth minute and had a juicy volley stopped at close range before the half-time whistle.
This result leaves Adelaide at the top of the table with 4 points.
Aussie teams off to a flier in Asian Champions League
A-League representatives, Melbourne Victory and Adelaide Utd have both made winning starts to their ACL campaigns with solid 2-0 victories.
These results put them at the top of their group tables.
Melbourne coach Ernie Merrick is confident his players can continue their fantastic start in their next match against Chonburi of Thailand.
Adelaide on the other hand were drawn to play away to Korean side Pohang Steelers. Their 2-0 upset victory was made even more sweet as they were forced to play with 10 men for half the game due to the send off of Jonas Salley.
Robert Cornthwaite and Bruce Djite put away the goals on the nigh. Pohang had many chances to get on the scoreboard but they hit the bar 3 times.
Adelaide’s next match is at home against Chinese champion Changchun Yatai.
