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atti abonyi

12/22/2015

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The upside to having work washed out is I get to spend time chatting to legends like Socceroo #191 and finding out about their GrassRoots memories. Atti Abonyi has nominated the now defunct St. Kilda Soccer club as his GrassRoots club.
​Joining in 1958 and playing out of Middle Park in Melbourne Atti was driven to games by fellow Socceroo Ted Smith in the back of Ted's ute with other team mates. Atti was one of those players we pretended to be in the playground at school, a man who played much of his time alongside Johnny Warren at St.George & a man who debuted for his country in 1967 against the Kiwis racking up 61 caps in a memorable career that saw him one of the first chosen for our 1974 World Cup appearance.
A pleasure to have you aboard sir. p.s St. Kilda was one of the oldest clubs in Melbourne, The pic is from 1909.
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    Greg Werner began playing in 1965, with the GrassRoots club of Socceroo skipper Murray Barnes, a change of suburb at age 6 and a new club, one that would become the GrassRoots club of Rob Wheatley & after a 27 year hiatus came back to playing with the GrassRoots club of Socceroos Steve Perry, Richie Bell, Chris Iconomidis & Matilda, Justine Fisher, one could say that the links with the NT are ingrained.
    At age 55, when his body gave up on playing, he took up the whistle to stay actively involved. In November of 2014 he created the GFP on Facebook to fill the void left by those in control of the game & in January 2016 launched this website.
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