Marrickville Football Club

All players, coaches, managers must be fully registered ( paperwork + photo) and players must be paid in full by next registration day to ensure cards are ready for round one .You cannot take the field or coach/manage a team without an official CDSFA card for 2010 season

Unpaid and unregistered/incomplete registered persons will NOT receive their cards until paperwork and/or payment is completed.

NEXT registration day for U8 to seniors

Wednesday 10 March

6pm-8pm

Jets Sports Club , Holbeach Ave, Tempe

(NOTE*  u6 and u7 register March 20- 9.30-12noon - be at Tempe fields 9.30am)

Players, coaches, managers wishing to de-register must contact registrar/president to arrange for refund ( depending on when  you de- register this may be a partial refund).

contact Ron ( president) 0414308027

REGISTRATIONS & GRADING

A very big thank you to all players and officials of the Marrickville Red Devils for their assistance in registrations and grading. Eventhough we didnt have a club house, we have managed to register and grade 58 teams from under 8 to seniors, registering over 900 players. A big thank you to all the people that assisted with team formations, your help was greatly appreciated. Thank you to all the coaches and managers for their assistance with the grading of their teams and for answering my never ending emails. This year we managed to hand in our grading sheets 2 days early which is fantastic.

Lastly, thank you to all the committee members and volunteers who helped on registration days.

Go the RED DEVILS!!!!

Georgie
Registrar

Marrickville Football Club

27 February 2010

Season 2010 is underway and I will attempt to bring you up to date with all the information relating to Marrickville ‘Red devils’ FC and our move to Tempe reserve for season 2010.

Let me begin by saying that registrations for this season are up in numbers compared to season 2009. As of Friday 26 /2/10 just over 850 players, coaches and managers have registered. This figure has been achieved by the dedicated management committee and registrars, who have worked tirelessly over only 4 registration days! (Two Sunday and 2 Wednesdays) . Registrations have now closed and only those teams that require additional players will be open for further registrations ( see web notices for teams seeking players) . Players who have not paid their registration fees by 17 March 2010 will not be issued with ID card for round 1(first weekend after Easter).

Team grading has been very successful with only the U11s to be finalized by next Tuesday - U11 players and coaches to be at Tempe fields Tuesday 2 March 6,30pm. Grading sheets for all teams (* except u6 and u7) must be in and completed by Wednesday 3rd March 2010. Give registrar your team list and requested division no later than this date. The committee will then meet Thursday 4^th March to finalize and forward completed grading sheets to cdsfa. Team lists and requested division must be received by cdsfa by Saturday 6 March. We appreciate your assistance (coaches and managers) in this request. And once grading has been completed, normal training, trial matches will take place from 17 March Tempe reserve. Times TBA

Allocation of training equipment, issuance of socks, sales of shorts etc will also take place once grading has been finalized by cdsfa (TBA).

The management committee is fully aware of the complications arising from the transfer to Tempe from Mackey- relating to canteen size and state of fields. We are in constant discussion with council and we will keep club members informed. We do ask that you bear with us over the next 4 -5 weeks as this period of the season is very time consuming and busy for the committee, coaches and managers.

The Dulwich Hill Academy is nearing completion with teams in first division in u8, u9, u10,and u12 (2 teams) for season 2010.

We are pleased to advise that GOL Sports Store Earlwood has come on board again, and that First National Real Estate Marrickville will sponsor u6 and u7 teams in season 2010. Please support these businesses and let them know you are a red devil! The club greatly appreciates their valued support. We are still to hear from Sydney Airport Corp. but we anticipate their assistance in 2010.

The u6 and U7 kick off their season on Satudary20 March at Tempe reserve at 10am. (Check website for updates http://marrickvillefc.org.au ). Damian Hadley is looking forward to another successful season.

Regarding Mackey Park – Infrastructure work will commence in March with diggings on field from June to July and anticipate completion in Dec. 2010. We look forward to returning to Mackey Park in 2011.

In completion, please watch website for further information or contact club officials, coaches, managers as we do not have a clubroom for season 2010.

The Marrickville Football Club would like to thank Newtown Jets Sports Club for their valuable assistance over the last month during the hectic registration period.

Ron Royston

President MFC

Teams looking for players are:

U16 Girls

All Age/ 7 - a goalkeeper

email: marrickvillereddevils@hotmail.com  if interested

Or ring Ron (President) on : 0414308027

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download flyer for  information

The table below is a work in progress.. these dates and activities are also in the online calender- check regularly for updates

cheers Pam

Registrations to be held at Tempe Reserve, Jets Sports Club, Holbeach Avenue, Tempe, NSW.

Football United were fundraising for at Sydney FC yesterday. Marrickville FC has already shown a lot of initiative in facilitating the involvement of refugee and aboriginal communities in the club and the creation of social harmony through sport, so I thought this post would be of interest to our club, and indeed, most of Marrickville LGA.  Andra

This innovative program seeks to assist young refugees in their immigration and integration to Australia by providing a supporting and enjoyable environment through a soccer development program. While the focus is particularly on youth, the program will contain elements designed to contribute to building community cohesion among the different refugee communities, but will also explore potential for bridging across different Australian communities.

The program combines a number of approaches that have had documented success such as the use of sport to bring people from differing communities together. Fundamental as well is the use of proven effective social intervention strategies which associate factors of personal development with social development, such as empowerment and life-skills workshops, and youth mentorship programs. In addition the program will put into practice recommendations recently made at the 6th Global Conference on Health Promotion convened by the World Health Association in Bangkok, Thailand (August 2005), most specifically that of innovative, private-public multi-sectoral partnerships that support local engagement and action.

Aims

• To contribute to building social cohesion in refugee communities through a youth soccer program;
• Promote social inclusion and address issues of disaffection amongst young refugees; and
• To contribute to building racial harmony and social integration across communities within the New South Wales area, through support for youth soccer development.

Objectives

• Provide empowerment, leadership development, resilience building in young refugees through a series of youth-oriented youth soccer initiatives;
• Contribute to health promoting integration of refugee youth in Sydney;
• Contribute to body of research on youth resilience and community social cohesion in refugee immigrant communities; and
• Contribute to growth and development of soccer in Australia;

Overall concept

• Design/develop/implement soccer training programs specifically for refugee community young people (after school, holidays)
• - soccer training
• - referee training
• - team management / development
• Include empowerment, resilience, leadership training within soccer training programs
• Assist in team development and management capacity within refugee communities
• Link development initiative to current and past programs (for example development youth tournament and playing opportunities with e.g. spring African Australian All-Age tournament (ref cup 2005))
• Link current development initiative to other opportunities development of a partnership program (linking clubs, e.g. Lindfield and Auburn)

Research questions

• Can a soccer program be developed to include the following:
• Contribute to capacity building in young refugees, in terms of leadership development, empowerment, building resilience, life skills;
• Contribute to building social cohesion in multi-ethnic communities that largely consist of refugees from fragile and conflict-impacted areas; and
• Contribute to bridging youth from various communities : those heavily populated by refugee youth / those populated with non-refugee youth?
• Does the current soccer situation enable development of such a program?

Contact Information

Please direct any enquiries or comments to:

Ms. Anne Bunde-Birouste
Program Convenor,
Senior Lecturer,
School of Public Health
and Community Medicine
University of New South Wales
Sydney, NSW 2052 Australia
T +61 (2) 9385-2591
F +61 (2) 9385-1526
E ab.birouste@unsw.edu.au

Dear Members, Players, and Supporters,

On behalf of the Marrickville Football Club, we would like to  Congratulate all the players, coaches, managers and parents for a wonderful football season in 2009.  It has been a great season this year, we hope you all enjoyed being part of the Marrickville ‘Red Devils’ and we look forward to seeing you all again in 2010.

We would like to Congratulate our Premiers (Grand Final Winners):

15/3…well done to the boys and to the coach Nondi Legas
16/2A… congratulations on also the minor premiership to the boys, the coach Ian Petrovic and managers Rinke Schoneveld and Mark Driscoll
35/1…congratulations to Chris Klazidis, John Denison and the guys on the minor premiership and on representing the association in Champion of Champions.

Congratulations to our Grand Finalists:

13/3…well done to the boys and the coach Sean O’Connor
15/1…well done to the boys, coach Peter Lakis, Jorge Piatta and manager Annie Lakiss
17/2… fantastic effort to the boys, acting coach Max Phelps, manager John Kennedy-Gould and all those that assisted throughout the season with coaching.

18/G1…Once again a terrific effort  from this young group of ladies, coach Ron Royston and manager Tracee Cirnigliaro

Womens 2…. Congratulations also on the minor premiership for the women and their coach Tony Lowry

Congratulations to 11/1 Gold for winning the grand final in the gold division….well done to the boys, coach and manager.
Congratulations to 10/2 Gold and 10/4 Gold for reaching the grand finals in their respective divisions.

The following teams reached the semi final…Well Done:
10/6, 10/5 gold, 11/2A, 12/1, 12/4, 13/4, 17/1, AA/1, 11/Girls 2, 12/Girls 1, 13/Girls 1, 13/Girls 2, 15/Girls 1

CONGRATULATIONS AND WELL DONE TO EVERYONE!!!!
REGARDS
Georgie

Registrar MFC