Marconi Stallions FC

Marconi Stallions FC

Full name	Marconi Stallions Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Stallions
Founded	1958
Ground	Marconi Stadium, Fairfield, New South Wales (Capacity: 11,500)
Chairman	Vincenzo Foti
Coach	Luke Casserly
League	NSW Premier League
2009	2nd
Home colours Away colours
Current season

The Marconi Stallions Football Club is an Australian football (soccer) club located in Sydney, Australia. The club won the National Soccer League title a record four times, along with South Melbourne FC and Sydney City SC. The club is one of only two to have competed in every season of the now-defunct NSL.

The club is currently a member of the New South Wales Premier League, playing their home games out of Marconi Stadium, in Bossley Park.

History

The club was formerly known as Marconi Fairfield; the name comes from Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian inventor of the radio, and Fairfield (New South Wales), the city in which the club plays. The club was founded in 1958 by an Italian social club called Club Marconi, and was primarily backed and supported by Italians and Italian-Australians living in Sydney. However, the club and team have since established themselves as one of the top sports and social clubs in the Western Sydney / Fairfield area (which is known as the premier region for football (soccer) in Sydney and Australia). This has seen the team gain recognition as one of Australia's top football (soccer) entities, with one of the highest rated youth academies in Australian football, and a support that has grown well beyond the Italian community in Sydney.

Season 2009 (1st Grade)

The Marconi Stallions had an impressive 2009 campaign finishing 2nd on the table behind local rivals Sydney United.The Stallions knocked Sydney United out of the NSW Premier League to advance to the grand final against Sutherland Sharks at CUA Stadium in Penrith. They lost the final 4-1 in front of a crowd of approximately 3000.

Rivalries

Sydney United

Marconi has a rivalry with Sydney Croatia due to closeness of the two clubs.Sydney United is located in Edensor Park and play out of King Tomislav Club which is only 1 km south of Club Marconi.The Croatian club has been rivals with the Stallions since 1970 when Marconi got promoted to the State League.In this rivalry there have been some highs and lows but all in all the matches between the two clubs have been entertaining. Marconi beat Sydney United in 1998 grand final in a very intense match that went to a penalty shoot-out. Marconi Stallions and Sydney United compete for the Capitol Hill Cup each year,the cup is over two legs.Sydney United won the cup in 2009 but Marconi got them back to go to the 2009 nsw premier league grand final.

A.P.I.A Leichhardt Tigers

The Stallions and the Tigers have a friendly rivalry.These two clubs are the two Italian backed clubs in New South Wales.

Honours

• Australian Champions--1979, 1988, 1989, 1993
• NSL Cup Winners--1980
• Brad Maloney won the Johnny Warren medal whilst playing for Marconi.

Former players

Francis Awaritefe Michael Beauchamp Evan Berger Alex Brosque Gary Byrne Jimmy Cant Nick Carle Luke Casserly Gus Cerro Steve Corica Angelo Costanzo Ante Covic Adam D'Apuzzo Bruce Djite Aleksander Duric Trevor Edwards Gary van Egmond Mark Allen Keith Evans Buddy Farah

Frank Farina Craig Foster Gerry Gomez (Footballer) Ian Gray Andy Harper George Harper Ali Abbas Al-Hilfi Gilbert Awekam Samuel Eric Hristodoulou Danny Invincibile George Jolevski Peter Katholos Harry Kewell Eddie Krnčević Jean-Paul de Marigny Brad Maloney John Markovski Tom McCulloch Nathan Moulds Brodie Mooy

Georg Ohm Paul Okon Tolgay Ozbey Marcus Phillips (1998-99) 22 apps 1 goal Les Pogliacomi Ivo Prskalo Mark Schwarzer David Seal Tony Sekulic Peter Sharne Marshall Soper Ufuk Talay Kimon Taliadoros Archie Thompson Matt Thompson Michael Thwaite Christian Vieri Roberto Vieri Zeljko Babic Chris Cahill

Current squad

First Grade

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 22 GK James Chronopoulos 21 GK Nikodin Matic 2 DF Andrew Mailer 4 DF Umut Tokdogan 5 MF Adel El-Jamal 6 DF Brenton Rhodes 9 FW Keith Shevlin 8 MF Sean O'Connell 11 MF Matthew Gordon 24 MF Daniel Petrovski

No. Position Player 13 FW Daniel Ott 7 FW Tj DeStefano 20 FW Gosue Sama MF Nicolo Sama 23 DF Christopher Nunes 17 MF Mitchell Mallia 26 MF Nahuel Arrarte 15 FW Matthew Mayora MF Domenic Trimboli 12 MF Graziano Trimboli FW Matthew Hall DF Ali Haydar MF Nathan Jagelman

Reserve squad

• Nikodin Matic(GK)
• Timothy Rassmussen
• Brenton Rhodes
• Sean O'Connell
• Anthony Musumeci
• Mitchell Mallia
• George Khoury
• Tom Brandon
• Eros Bergamin
• Joseph Andriano
• Nathan Agbinya
• Robert Tribbia
• Andrew Vitucci

External links

• Official website

Preceded by West Adelaide	NSL Champions 1979	Succeeded by Sydney City
Preceded by APIA Leichhardt	NSL Champions 1988-1989	Succeeded by Sydney Olympic
Preceded by Adelaide City	NSL Champions 1992/93	Succeeded by Adelaide City