When he made his debut in 1976 against Indonesia Gary became the first West Aussie to wear the G&G since Con Purser 21yrs earlier.
A pleasure to have him on board.
3937kms west of Newcastle is the city of Perth, capital of Western Australia & the home town of our next nominator, Socceroo #260. Gary Marocchi has nominated Perth SC as his GrassRoots club. He joins Adrian Madaschi as a fellow Perth SC man and Gary travels to Sydney later this month as the President of his GrassRoots club to take on the Rockdale Suns in the FFA Cup round of 32.
When he made his debut in 1976 against Indonesia Gary became the first West Aussie to wear the G&G since Con Purser 21yrs earlier. A pleasure to have him on board.
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the authorGreg 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. |