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Ex-NSL players tell of league's glory days, problems

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It's been 13 years since the collapse of the National Soccer League.
Today, just 17 players from that era are still playing in the A-League.
In tonight's special feature, we hear their thoughts on where the game has been... and where it's heading.
Darren Mara (@DazzMara) reports for SBS World News.

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18 янв 2017

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@KK-qi6mt Год назад

This was a bit Sydney centric. No mention of South Melbourne or other Melbourne clubs. Anyway, the NSL was a passionate league and true breeding ground for Australian talent unlike the the current A league. Basically you can’t franchise fun which is what the A league was attempting to do. And there is still crowd trouble. Maybe de-ethnicising the game and crowd violence are not related. Watching the A league is like watching “it’s a knockout “. I refuse to go to the games until (at the least) the old NSL get the right to compete in the A league through promotion and relegation. If you look at AFL or NRL teams the older teams all started out serving a particular community. It may have been Catholic or Protestant or something else. That’s is why these leagues have gone from strength to strength because it was always tribal. I can only speak for the a club like South Melbourne which if allowed to prosper will become a juggernaut in Australian football because not only does it have a large Greek community backing but it had started to branch out and have non ethnic support. It had started making the transition before the old NSL was canned. I have no doubt that other clubs would have done the same. Sometimes you need to allow things to organically develop. That is the only way to build a successful competition.

@driggyshinbone8853 5 лет назад

The old NSL was a production line for truly skill full players........the clubs inspired loyalty like no other code in the country.....while the A-league is a bland passionless go through the motions bore fest.

@zi2176 4 года назад

Spot on

@mifeke6149 3 года назад

What the fuck is Santalab talking about? Parra Power copped stick from United (he played for both) fans because their team was full of ex players, making it a rivalry just like Rugby League had big rivalries. I went with my family for years and there was no trouble at all even with the biggest rivals, Sydney United and Olympic. The worst would be a small pocket of kids that got a bit drunk at times and just bothered each other. Saying there was a lot of crowd trouble is just a downright fucking lie.

@hanoitripper1809 Год назад

There were issues in many melb games

@barrycade9803 Год назад

What is Santalab talking about? It was the ethnic rivalries and trouble at grounds that made the NSL what it was. An exciting competition.

@Caa310 3 месяца назад

Sydney united v south Melbourne games. Exciting af!

@Jahanoudis 7 лет назад

Greatest days of Oz football

@otiskamden1757 2 года назад

instablaster

@Caa310 3 месяца назад

Brisbane strikers 96/97. Never forget!

@barrycade9803 11 месяцев назад

The NSL was a real league, unlike the superficial gAy-League.

@hellenicspirit9849 2 года назад

Oh my, look at what has happened. What a huge failure football is in Australia.

@velocityjet1884 5 лет назад

The Old N.S.L was the real football league, The socceroo's greatest side ever had basically all the players who began there careers in the Old N.S.L now the A-League is producing shit players and high wages, just imagine the old N.S.L with todays A-League wages WOW

@Kan1998s 2 года назад

Lmao yet when the NSL was running Australia struggled to qualify for the world cup 😂😂😂 Until the GREAT A-League was introduced we were constantly qualifying for world cups 🔥

@sydneyunitedsupporter192 3 года назад

nothing will ever beat the nsl the a league is pathetic without clubs such as sydney united, marconi, olympic, makedonija etc

@Kan1998s 2 года назад

Nah our league is multicultural and everyone is welcomed. Your ethnic clubs can stay in the mickey mouse NPL 😂

@aussiegreek4993 2 года назад

Agree my friend as an olympic supporter some of the epic derbies between the 2 clubs was phenomenal.

@twelveytwelve 5 лет назад

The sooner the old ethnic clubs fall by the wayside the better.

@tomislavkolic9160 4 года назад

people like you are the reason australian soccer is fucked in the future. If it wasn't for these ethnic clubs there would be no passion and that is obvious in the a league. no one gives a shit about the a league anymore

@pheonix2518 4 года назад

Like it or not those "ethnic" clubs are what made the golden generation and represented a fanbase that stood faithful to the sport unlike the sports journalists and public that "joined" the sport after years of mocking and belittling it. Here we are 15 years after its demise and we have yet to match that standard despite holding a "professional" league and appealing to a "wider audience." How is this so? The A-League is unable to promote younger talent like the NSL, having being confined to the Y-League where they play around a dozen matches a year and on the flipside, the amount of money in league means that it can't bring in superstars like other national leagues do. Thus, resulting in crowd attendances having minimal to no growth at all. The clubs, until recently, had no influence on the league itself and the recent trend in catering to the womens game with equal pay whilst also holding their anti-ethnic structure, is effectively hypocritical of the game, and of Australian sport in general where every other sport is allowed to pander to minorities whilst soccer is discredited for doing so. These clubs are still there after 15 years, and with the A-League not attracting many new viewers the reality will be that some of these ethnic clubs will return to the top flight of football (or if a compromise can be met to form a second division).