Socceroos defender and Football Hall of Fame inductee Robbie Dunn talks through his days on the playing field with Ashley Morrison. Scotland-born Robbie is one of Western Australia’s most capped international players, and rates amongst the nation’s most outstanding defenders. He started out locally with Kwinana United and North Perth Croatia before travelling east as […]
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Shaun Murphy in Conversation with Ashley Morrison
Socceroo’s defender and Football Hall of Fame WA inductee Shaun Murphy takes time out to discuss his football career with Ashley Morrison. A big central defender with a touch of class, Shaun Murphy’s career included playing at the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, representing Australia in World Cup qualifiers, eleven years as a professional in England […]
Gary Marocchi in Conversation with Ashley Morrison
Socceroos captain and Football Hall of Fame inductee Gary Marocchi reflects on his 50+ years involvement in the game with Ashley Morrison. Gary is also one of the true icons of West Australian football. He enjoyed twelve seasons in the local competition with Azzurri and Inglewood Kiev, and played six summers of national league football […]
Robbie Zabica in Conversation with Ashley Morrison
Socceroo’s goalkeeper and Football Hall of Fame WA inductee Robbie Zabica takes a seat to talk though his time on the playing field with Ashley Morrison. Robbie is one of Western Australia’s greatest ever homegrown talents. A formidable sight between the posts, he made 27 ‘A’ international appearances for Australia in a senior career that […]
Vale Doug Stewart
The Football Hall of Fame WA is saddened to learn of the passing of highly respected player and coach Doug Stewart. A former Socceroo who could star on either wing or at inside right, Doug passed away at a care facility in Queensland on Tuesday 12th March, aged 92. Born in Burma (Myanmar), Doug was […]
1928: Syd Hinton Selected for Australia’s First Trip to Asia
Sydney ‘Syd’ Hinton is very much an Australian football pioneer. The left-sided defender gained the unique honour of being part of Australia’s first ever foray into Asia when selected for the national teams’ ground-breaking visit to the Dutch East Indies and Singapore in mid-1928. Across eight weeks in July and August of that year Australia […]
Our Socceroos
Today marks the 100th anniversary of Australia’s first game of international football. The venue was Carisbrook Park, Dunedin, and the opposition New Zealand on Saturday June 17, 1922, when the host nation claimed a 3-1 victory over their Trans-Tasman rivals. Western Australia wasn’t represented in that first international outing, however, in the intervening years no […]
Socceroos Qualify for Fifth Successive World Cup
Australia have qualified for a fifth consecutive World Cup finals tournament after defeating Peru in their intercontinental play-off. Substitute goalkeeper Andrew Redmayne made the decisive save as Australia out-shot Peru 5-4 on penalties after the game remained tied at nil-all after extra-time. The shoot-out win brought to an end a marathon qualification campaign that stretched […]
1992: Local Quartet Shines in Young Socceroos Defeat of Brazil
The samba drums may have been pounding but it was the Young Socceroos that danced to the rhythm in defeating Brazil 1-0 in the opening game of the SBS Youth Challenge Series. An enthusiastic crowd of 10,000 turned out at Fremantle Oval on the evening of 5 December 1992 to witness Australia take on the […]
Our Stars of Yesteryear: Ron Adair
It is hard to believe West Australian football came close to losing one of our all-time greats, Ron Adair, to another sport soon after his arrival from Northern Ireland in 1949. “Everyone was so sport mad here I just had to play something and I picked soccer,” Ron told ‘the Sunday Times’ newspaper in 1954. […]