MANAGEMENT:

Head Coach: Branko Culina

Assistant Coach: None

Goalkeeper Coach: Jim Fraser

Strength and Conditioning Coach: Anthony Crea

Team Physiotherapist: Stan Ivancic

Team Assistant and Massuer: Joe Niutta

Cheif Medical Officer: Dr Daniel Biggs

Club Dcotor: Dr Andrew McDonald
SQUAD:

GOALKEEPERS
Clint Bolton
Dean Bouzanis
Justin Pasfield

RIGHT FULL BACKS
Robbie Middleby

CENTRAL DEFENDERS
Iain Fyfe
Mark Rudan
Jacob Timpano

LEFT FULL BACKS
Nikolas Tsattalios
Nikolai Topor-Stanley

RIGHT MIDFIELDERS
David Carney

CENTRAL MIDFIELDERS
Noel Spencer
Ufuk Talay
Terry McFlynn
Mark Milligan

LEFT MIDFIELDERS
Ruben Zadkovich

ATTACKING MIDFIELDERS
Steve Corica
Adam Casey
Michael Enfield

STRIKERS
David Zdrilic
Alex Brosque
Luka Glavas
CURRENT LOAN PLAYERS:

HEAD COACH

BRANKO CULINA


Born in Croatia, Culina moved to Australia as a child and is one of the country's most experienced coaches. Culina led National Soccer League clubs Melbourne Knights, Sydney United, Canberra Cosmos and Sydney Olympic before becoming the technical director of Soccer New South Wales. Culina was appointed to coach Sydney FC in the AFC Champions League following the departure of Terry Butcher at the end of the 2006-2007 A-League season. Culina's youngest son Jason is a regular midfield starter for Dutch giants PSV Eindhoven and the Socceroos.

SYDNEY FC FTW!!!!

Blimey. I hope you dont get any injuries to your right side DDK

He did get injured this season, and we just stuck another player in there, thats probably why we did so shit this sesaon.

Mikey Enfield!!

Were any of these players at the World Cup representing Australia? Can't seem to recognize a single name.

Any good?

Well, he never really got much of a chance here in LA. Had a hard time getting on the pitch. He's got great quickness and agility, but is lacking in size. I was actually very surprised to hear he signed with Sydney, but I wish him the best of luck. I hope he gets enough playing time. He's a really nice guy, I've met him a couple of times.

Cool. I hope he doesnt do well How do you rate Tony Lochhead that used to play for England Revolution?

Haven't seen him play much, to be honest. I saw him when his university team, Santa Barbara, was playing in the College Cup against Indiana, but they lost on penalties. I remember him standing out pretty well, as he was one of the best players on the pitch, and I could just tell he had a solid career ahead of him.

But didn't catch much of him while playing for New England though. He's in the A-League now, right?

Only Mark Milligan. Our league just restarted after the old one was dismantled because it was corrupt and not going so well. More domestic players are starting to get into the squad now.

Yeah he's back with our Wellington Phoenix. When he told New England he wanted to come home, they wanted to free up an international spot or something.

I heard otherwise, he wanted to stay but they wanted to sign the Irish lad so he was cut.

That was on Wikipedia, but the reliability of Wikipedia is heavily limited.

Some interview I saw said he wanted to go, and they free up the spot for this other international. A combination of the opporunity to sign this other guy and the fact he wanted to leave anyway

Wellington Phoenix? Whatever happened to the New Zealand Knights?

Their leicence was revoked because of poor management, and the on-field performance of the team was bad as well. Wellington replaced them, it's still a New Zealand based team.

OK. So did most of the players on Wellington come directly from the Knights? Or is it a completely new team?

Like 4 Knights players are in the new team. Its virtually a completely new team, but they have much better players. The previous team recruited poorly, had too many has beens and lower tier football players who ciuldnt cut it in the a-league.