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2010–11 Adelaide United FC Season
The 2010–11 Adelaide United FC season was the club's sixth A-League season. It includes the 2010–11 A-League season as well as any other competitions of the 2010–11 Association football, football season, including the 2010 AFC Champions League. Adelaide United competed in the continental competition for its third time, making the club the most successful Australian club in Asia. Overview For the first time in the club's history, the Adelaide United will be managed by an international manager in Rini Coolen, moving away from the Adelaide United tradition of local coaches seen in its prior seasons. As of 9 September 2010, Adelaide United has made Australian football history by becoming the first team to climb from the bottom of the table to the top, whilst the 2009–10 A-League, 2009–10 premiers and champions, Sydney FC, remain rooted at the bottom. Adelaide United also claimed the record for longest undefeated streak in A-League history with their win over Wellington P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide United FC
Adelaide United Football Club is a professional men's Association football, soccer club located in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. The club was one of the eight founding members of the A-League Men and have competed in it concurrently since its formation, under North American professional sports league organization#Systems around the world, licence from the Australian Professional Leagues. Established in 2003, the club was formed to replace Adelaide City and West Adelaide SC, West Adelaide in the final season of the National Soccer League, and has remained the only professional club from South Australia. Adelaide United's home ground is at Hindmarsh Stadium, Coopers Stadium in the inner north-western suburb of Hindmarsh, South Australia, Hindmarsh. Adelaide United won their first silverware in 2006, when they became minor premiership, premiers of the 2005–06 A-League, inaugural A-League season, finishing top of the ladder over Sydney FC by seven points. In 2008, the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brisbane Roar FC
Brisbane Roar Football Club is a professional soccer club based in Brisbane, Queensland. competing in Australia's premier men's competition, A-League Men, which is the top tier Australia's football pyramid. When Queensland Lions F.C. were the only Queensland bidder for the new A League competition following the Crawford Report and the new FFA under Frank Lowy, Lions withdrew their men's team from the State Competition and entered it in to the A League. Initially competed under the name Queensland Roar before rebranding in 2009 to Brisbane Roar. The Roar has a rich history in the A-League, having won two Premierships and three Championships, while also holding the record for the longest unbeaten streak in the league's history, at 36 matches. The team's core colour is orange, reflecting its Dutch heritage, and this has evolved over time. For the 2024–25 season, to mark the 20th anniversary of the A-League, Brisbane Roar announced a return to their original orange and blue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dario Bodrušić
Dario Bodrušić (born 25 January 1983 in Bugojno, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Bosnian-born Croatian football retired defender. Club career The defender played for NK Istra 1961 in the Croatian First League. In January 2011, he signed with A-League club Adelaide United. After a short stint with the Reds Bodrusic was released on a free transfer along with youngsters Francesco Monterosso and Joe Costa. He returns to his second spell with Rudeš in July 2015, following his departure from TSV Hartberg TSV Hartberg, currently known as TSV Egger Glas Hartberg for sponsorship reasons, is an association football club based in Hartberg, Styria, Austria. Founded in 1946, the club competes in the Austrian Football Bundesliga, the top tier of the Aust .... He later had another spell in Austria with SK Bischofshofen 1933. International He played for the Croatian U-21 team. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatia
Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro to the southeast, and shares a maritime border with Italy to the west. Its capital and largest city, Zagreb, forms one of the country's Administrative divisions of Croatia, primary subdivisions, with Counties of Croatia, twenty counties. Other major urban centers include Split, Croatia, Split, Rijeka and Osijek. The country spans , and has a population of nearly 3.9 million. The Croats arrived in modern-day Croatia, then part of Illyria, Roman Illyria, in the late 6th century. By the 7th century, they had organized the territory into Duchy of Croatia, two duchies. Croatia was first internationally recognized as independent on 7 June 879 during the reign of Duke Branimir of Croatia, Branimir. Tomislav of Croatia, Tomis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Busan I'Park FC
Busan IPark FC () is a South Korean professional football club based in Busan that competes in K League 2, the second tier of the South Korean football pyramid. They play their home games at the Busan Gudeok Stadium. Busan IPark was founded as a semi-professional team in November 1979 by Saehan Motors. The club was one of the original five founding members of the K League and continuously competed in the first division from 1983 to 2015, when they were relegated for the first time. Initially, the club was called Daewoo Royals, in reference to the motor company that originally owned and financed it. Since the early 2000s, Busan has received financial backing from the HDC Group and its apartment brand IPARK, rebranding as Pusan i.cons and later as Busan IPark. History Daewoo Royals After topping the league for most of the 1983 season, Daewoo finished second in their debut season, losing the title by one point to Hallelujah FC after a goalless draw against Yukong Elephants in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
K-League
K League () is South Korea's professional football league. It includes the first division K League 1 and the second division K League 2. Clubs competing in the K League have won a record total of twelve AFC Champions League titles, the top continental competition for Asian clubs. History Until the 1970s, South Korean football operated two major football leagues, the National Semi-professional Football League and the National University Football League, but these were not professional leagues in which footballers could focus on only football. In 1979, however, the Korea Football Association (KFA)'s president Choi Soon-young planned to found a professional football league, and made South Korea's first professional football club Hallelujah FC the next year. After the South Korean professional baseball league KBO League was founded in 1982, the KFA was aware of crisis about the popularity of football. In 1983, it urgently made the ''Korean Super League'' with two professional cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iain Fyfe
Iain Stuart Fyfe (born 3 April 1982) is a retired Australian A-League professional footballer. Club career On completion of his SASI program in 2000, Iain joined hometown NSL club Adelaide City. After just three appearances off the bench in 2000–01, he broke into the Adelaide first team the following season, making 52 appearances in two years before moving to Sydney Olympic in 2003. He also earned a call up to the Australian Under-23 side for a friendly against Spain, but it would be the only one. Domestically, his move was positive, becoming a key figure for Olympic, playing all-but-one matches of the 2003–04 season. Scotland Following the collapse of the NSL after that season, Fyfe went overseas and trialled at various clubs, including Scottish Premier League side Hibernian, before signing for Hamilton Academical in the Scottish Second Division. There he played alongside fellow Australians, David Carney as well as childhood friend and former Adelaide City teammate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameron Watson (footballer)
Cameron Watson (born 31 May 1987) is a Scottish Australian former football (soccer) player who played as a defensive midfielder. Club career FC Porto and VVV-Venlo Watson previously played in the youth and reserve teams of Portuguese Liga club FC Porto for one season before joining Dutch club VVV-Venlo, where he made a handful of appearances. From there he trained with both Melbourne Victory and Sydney FC in an intention to sign with either club before signing on with Melbourne Knights. Watson was linked to a move to Gold Coast United after head coach, Miron Bleiberg, expressed his interest in signing him. Did not sign for Gold Coast United due to an injury. On 28 April 2010 he scored for Melbourne Heart in a team of trialists against the Whittlesea Zebras. Adelaide United Watson signed for Adelaide United in the A-League on an injury replacement loan for Fabian Barbiero. He played his first match in round 1 of the 2010–2011 A-League season coming on as a substitute. Wat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lloyd Owusu
Lloyd Magnus Owusu (born 12 December 1976) is a retired professional footballer who last played for Hakoah Sydney City East in the NSW State League Division One, Sydney, Australia. After a move from non-League Slough Town, his career took off at Brentford, where he scored 48 goals in 163 league games between 1998 and 2002. He then moved to Sheffield Wednesday, and two years later transferred to Reading following a short loan spell. He returned to Brentford in 2005, and two years later signed with Yeovil Town. In 2008, he moved to Cheltenham Town, and also had a loan spell at Brighton & Hove Albion the following year. In 2009, he moved Australia to play for Adelaide United, but left the club in December 2010. Following this he spent a brief period with Luton Town back in England, before heading to Cyprus to play for AEP Paphos. He then returned to England having spells at Barnet and a loan spell at Hayes & Yeading United. In February 2012, he made a nostalgic return to his f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andwélé Slory
Andwélé Cedric Slory (born 27 September 1982) is a Dutch former professional footballer. He played as a right winger. After his professional debut for Stormvogels Telstar at the age of 18, Slory promoted to the Eredivisie with his next club Excelsior. In the Eredivisie, Slory had an impressive season with Excelsior. Slory became the club's top scorer with 12 goals, made his debut in the Netherlands national football team and earned a transfer to Feyenoord. Due to injuries, Slory had a difficult start at Feyenoord, but became a first team regular in the season 2009–10. Later he played in England, Bulgaria and Australia, then retired from playing professionally for 3 years until he joined FC Dordrecht in 2015, where he retired once again after six months. Slory has also played for the Netherlands national football team. Early life Slory was born in Paramaribo, Suriname, where he lived until he was seven years old. Slory's father is a former player of the Surinamese footbal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Usúcar
Francisco "Pancho" Usúcar (born 17 April 1986) is a Uruguayan footballer who plays for Bangladesh Premier League club Sheikh Russel KC. Club career Central Español Usucar was transferred to Central Español in mid-2008. He played three championships with such team, and scored one goal in the 2010–11 season against River Plate. Adelaide United On 13 November 2011 it was announced he had signed for A-League club Adelaide United. Usúcar made his debut as a starting squad member for Adelaide United on 9 January 2011 win over arch-rivals Melbourne Victory in Melbourne. Usúcar has represented Uruguay's U-20 and U-17 national teams. He has played in Uruguay's Primera Division with Central Español contrary to reports he was never on loan to Greek Superleague Club Panathinaikos. After impressing on debut, Usucar signed a 2-year contract extension. Since arriving in Adelaide in January 2011, Usucar has made 34 appearances in all competitions for Adelaide United, consisting of 29 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
