Showing posts with label Gamba Osaka. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gamba Osaka. Show all posts
Thursday, 10 April 2008
Pumpkin Seed Eaters episode 5
Episode 5 now out. Petty milestone, really. Ah, I remember the 5th entry on here. Anyway, it includes a fairly silly telephone call to the FFV, a rather unfunny bit with Archie Thompson, an unnecessary and poorly researched swipe at Gamba Osaka - not named after 'some car company', but rather a clever combination of the Italian word for 'leg' and the Japanese phrase meaning 'stand firm' or 'do your best '- a very interesting Poulimeno of the Week, and bonus! a segment dealing with feedback from the Victory forum to their 'ethnic cleansing' editorial from the previous edition, provided by research monkeys working for less than minimum wage in their offices.
Monday, 7 April 2008
South of the Border, your no. 1 choice for South related news
Two prime cuts of news meat for you to sample on from the weekend, which you probably won't hear anywhere else.
Firstly, young and often unfairly derided goalkeeper Mladen Tosic has been loaned out to Westgate Sindjelic in State League 1, where he'll get more senior game time as well as being away from the bright lights of the VPL. Westgate didn't get off to a great start on the weekend though, copping a 4-1 thrashing at the hands of Kingston City. Anyway, good luck to the lad.
Secondly, apparently Japanese side Gamba Osaka will be training on Lakeside today or this evening in preparation for their Asian Champions League match on Wednesday. While watching the under 21s meekly succumb 1-0 to Green Gully, three Japanese (or at least very fluent Japanese speakers) took up a position alongside the fence next to me. After making my inquiries, found out one was a team official of Gamba Osaka, and that they would be training there. So good on the board for getting that done. Conversation also went towards my thoughts on the Victory, NSL/A-League history, asking me if I would be at the game (which included a rather meek attempt to wrestle a free ticket out of them), and so forth. Nice people. Told them to kill the Victory. I think they appreciated the sentiment.
Firstly, young and often unfairly derided goalkeeper Mladen Tosic has been loaned out to Westgate Sindjelic in State League 1, where he'll get more senior game time as well as being away from the bright lights of the VPL. Westgate didn't get off to a great start on the weekend though, copping a 4-1 thrashing at the hands of Kingston City. Anyway, good luck to the lad.
Secondly, apparently Japanese side Gamba Osaka will be training on Lakeside today or this evening in preparation for their Asian Champions League match on Wednesday. While watching the under 21s meekly succumb 1-0 to Green Gully, three Japanese (or at least very fluent Japanese speakers) took up a position alongside the fence next to me. After making my inquiries, found out one was a team official of Gamba Osaka, and that they would be training there. So good on the board for getting that done. Conversation also went towards my thoughts on the Victory, NSL/A-League history, asking me if I would be at the game (which included a rather meek attempt to wrestle a free ticket out of them), and so forth. Nice people. Told them to kill the Victory. I think they appreciated the sentiment.
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