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Traralgon Olympians SC
Traralgon Olympians SC is a soccer club based in Traralgon, Victoria, Australia. The club was founded in 1980, currently competes in Latrobe Valley Soccer League and is regularly referred to as Olympians. They are among the most successful club in the history of the Latrobe Valley Soccer League, winning eight men's league championships and seven Battle of Britain Cup titles. The club regularly competes in the Hellenic Cup, a competition for Australian soccer clubs backed by the Greek community. History In 1979, local identity Jim Fkiarias came up with the idea of creating a soccer club to represent the rapidly expanding Greek community in the Latrobe Valley. He then approached a group of friends and a meeting of other interested people in the community took place to develop a proposal at the Greek Orthodox Church in Morwell. Fkiarias later became the club's first life member in 1989. As a result, in 1980 a soccer club was created and named Traralgon Olympians Soccer Club, im ...
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Latrobe Valley Soccer League
Latrobe Valley Soccer League (LVSL) is a soccer league encompassing much of Gippsland and the Latrobe Valley in ( Victoria. As the region with the National Soccer League's only regional participant, as well as being home to multiple Victorian state champions, the LVSL is widely acknowledged as being one of the strongest soccer leagues in regional Australia. History The earliest known organised soccer competition in Gippsland was the Wonthaggi and District Soccer Association, which began in 1912, followed by the North Gippsland Soccer League (featuring Sale United, Yallourn SC and clubs from Maffra, Glenmaggie and Nambrok) beginning in 1926 - although both leagues ceased to exist by the late 1930s. An association focused on the Latrobe Valley did not arrive until the formation of the Central Gippsland Soccer Football Association - which featured multiple teams from Yallourn SC ('Wanderers' and 'Rovers' initially, then 'Celtic', 'Swifts' and 'Milita' followed), Yallourn North ...
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Meander (art)
__NOTOC__ A meander or meandros () is a decorative border constructed from a continuous line, shaped into a repeated Motif (visual arts), motif. Among some Italians, these patterns are known as "Greek Lines". Such a design may also be called the Greek fret or Key pattern, Greek key design, although these terms are modern designations; this decorative motif appears much earlier and among Near and Far eastern cultures that are far from Greece. Usually the term is used for motifs with straight lines and right angles and the many versions with rounded shapes are called scroll (art), running scrolls or, following the etymological origin of the term, may be identified as water wave motifs. Meaning of the name On one hand, the name "meander" recalls the twisting and turning path of the Büyük Menderes River, Maeander River in Asia Minor (present day Turkey) that is typical of river pathways. On another hand, as Karl Kerenyi pointed out, "the meander is the figure of a labyrinth in lin ...
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Diaspora Sports Clubs In Australia
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1980 Establishments In Australia
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Association Football Clubs Established In 1980
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Traralgon City SC
Traralgon City SC is a soccer club based in Traralgon, Victoria, Australia. The club was originally founded in 1968 and currently competes in Latrobe Valley Soccer League and are often to referred to as the ''Roosters''. The club was the first Traralgon side to join the Latrobe Valley Soccer League after the withdrawal of the Traralgon Tigers in 1964. The club is still yet to win a senior men's LVSL title but has claimed six Battle of Britain Cups, four women's LVSL titles (every title from 2016 to 2019) and four women's Browne-Huizer Cups. History Early Cup triumph followed by struggle (1968–1978) Whilst clubs from Moe and Morwell were the dominant forces in the formative years of the LVSL - owing to their larger populations and heavy migrant influence - Traralgon was slower to compete. The Traralgon Tigers joined the LVSL in 1955 and stayed until 1964, and despite finishing as league runner's up in 1959 and Battle of Britain runner's up in 1958 and 1959, the club couldn ...
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Gerry Clarke (footballer, Born 1959)
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Sean Byrne (New Zealand Footballer)
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Sumatra, Indonesia
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Traralgon
Traralgon ( , ) is a city located in the east of the Latrobe Valley in the Gippsland region of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia and the most populous city in the City of Latrobe and the region. The urban population of Traralgon at the was 26,907. It is the largest and fastest growing city in the greater Latrobe Valley area, which has a population of 77,168 at the 2021 Census and is administered by the City of Latrobe. Naming The origin of the name Traralgon is unconfirmed. The name was used for the pastoral lease of the Hobson brothers in 1844, centred on Traralgon Creek, and was alternatively rendered 'Tralgon' by Dr Edumund Hobson. The town was also spelt "Taralgon" in the earliest records of the Gippsland Times available in 1861. The Gippsland Farmers' Journal wrote in 1889 that the town name was originally spelt 'Tarralgon' and that it was the Indigenous name for 'the river of little fish'. However, these words are not reflected in modern linguists' knowledge of ...
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Newborough-Yallourn United SC
Newborough-Yallourn United SC is a soccer club based in Newborough, Victoria, Newborough, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. The club was founded in 1923 as ''Yallourn Soccer Club'' before relocating in 1980 and subsequently merging with ''Newborough Soccer Club'' (themselves formed in 1955) in 1995. The club currently competes in Latrobe Valley Soccer League and is regularly referred to as NYU or The Combine. The club's biggest claim to fame is that it was the first non-metropolitan club to be crowned Victorian league champions, winning the 1951 Victorian Division 1 title - the equivalent of NPL Victoria today - just four years after joining the competition. Yallourn SC spent a total of 55 years playing in Victoria's metropolitan leagues (from 1995 as Newborough-Yallourn United) before moving to the LVSL permanently in 2005. The Combine are among the most successful clubs in the history of the Latrobe Valley Soccer League, winning a combined nine men's league championships a ...
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Fortuna 60 SC
Fortuna '60 Soccer Club is a soccer club based in Morwell, Victoria, Australia. The club was founded in 1960, currently competes in Victorian Men's State League Division 5 South and the Latrobe Valley Soccer League and is regularly referred to as Fortuna. They are among the most successful club in the history of the Latrobe Valley Soccer League, winning 10 league championships. From 2025, for the first time in their history, Fortuna will compete in the Victorian State League, where they have been added to the Men's State League 5 South. The club will field seniors and reserves in the State League, whilst it will also field a side in the LVSL Men's Second Division, whilst its women's and junior teams will also play in the LVSL. History The highly successful Morwell Soccer Club – which was formed in the 1930s – enjoyed an influx of migrant players in the 1950s and by the start of the 1954 season, the club was described as "a team comprising Dutch migrants under former int ...
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