The 1990 season was the year of White Eagles.
They
won the Summer Cup in the south and also the State League title, despite their
final roster match against Launceston Juventus away in Launceston being
abandoned in the 69th minute when Eagles trailed 1-0.
Referee
Brett MacKay called the game off after he alleged that he was pushed in the
chest by a Launceston Juventus official after he had approached the bench to
speak to the coach and substitutes.
The
abandonment of the game did not prevent White Eagles from winning the title as
second-placed Hobart Juventus were unable to make up the leeway after going
down 2-1 to Ulverstone.
Incidentally,
the State League was a 9-team competition following the withdrawal of Launceston
United.
The
White Eagles squad was: Peter Groenewoud
(GK), Eugene Banasik, Paul Morrison, Mark Leszczynski, Bob Nicholson, Scott
Young, Andrew Leszczynski, David Stoddart, Richard Leszczynski, Craig Pitt,
Scott Hadley, Simon Templeman, Michael Driessen.
The
Cadbury Jubilee Trophy Final was won 1-0 by Hobart Juventus against Olympia,
the goal coming from Romeo Frediani.
In
the semi-finals of that competition, Caledonians had lost to Juventus but Calies
had given a debut to 15-year-old Martin Collins, who later went on to play in
the Victorian State League.
Caledonians
at the time were coached by former star winger Ian Parker.
The
Caledonians side included Brett Pullen, who had NSL experience with West Adelaide
and who was selected for the Australian Under-20s squad for the Youth World Cup
which was to be held in Papua New Guinea.
Glenorchy
Croatia midfielder Chris Barrell won the 1990 Vic Tuting Silver Medal as the
State League’s best-and-fairest player.
The
medal was named after Vic Tuting, the Tasmanian vice-president of the
Australian Soccer Federation.
Photo: Lyndon Adams presents Taroona's Brian McKay with the league trophy as Vic Tuting (extreme right with spectacles) looks on [PlessPix]
The
84-year-old Tuting was awarded a medal by FIFA for his long service to the game
in Australia and in 1990 he flew to Fiji to receive his award at the meeting of
the Oceania Football Confederation. It
was presented to him by FIFA coach Karl-Heinz Marotzke.
I
had met Marotzke 9 years earlier at the 1981 International Coaches’ Convention
in Sydney, held in conjunction with the 1981 World Youth Cup that was being
played in Australia. I was one of three
Tasmanian delegates at the convention.
Incidentally, West Germany won the World Youth Cup (Under-20s) final 4-0
against Qatar at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Marotzke
was an outstanding coach who had been in charge of Schalke 04, one of West
Germany’s oldest and most respected clubs.
He had also coached the national teams of Ghana, Nigeria and Botswana.
I
recall doing a 2-hour taped interview with Vic Tuting in about 1990, too. He was a great mentor of Steve Darby, the
Tasmanian Director of Coaching and had had a lifetime’s involvement with
football in Tasmania and Australia.
The
Northern League in 1990 was won by Riverside Olympic and Launceston United, who
had pulled out of the State League, came second.
Riverside
also won the Northern Knock-out Cup competition, beating Western Suburbs 5-0 in
the final.
Taroona
won the Southern League title with 62 points, a massive 14 points ahead of
second-placed University.
In
women’s football, leading club Rapid was stricken by infighting and the club was
renamed Hobart Raiders. They still won
the Southern and State League Women’s titles in 1990.
In
the following four years, there would be a huge struggle for dominance between
White Eagles and Devonport City, while the Tasmanian State team would play some
memorable matches against Victoria, New South Wales and Japanese club Nagoya
Grampus Eight.
3 comments:
Walter was their also a game against Sarwak in the late 90?
Sarawak played four games in Tasmania in 1997, Cheers! Walter
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