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John Kosmina

8/2/2016

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Today's nominator is none other than the Kosinator himself. John Kosmina, Socceroo #259, follows Roger Romanowicz in naming Adelaide Polonia as his GrassRoots club.
Kosi started at Croydon Park as a 12yr old subbing for the under 16's, then by 1969 Polonia had an under 14 side for him to play in. In less than 8 years he'd made his international debut & signed for Arsenal, not bad for a kid from Largs Bay Primary.
Kosi made his Socceroo debut on the 1976 Tour against Hong Kong and would be capped on a further 59 occasions, scoring 25 times.
He has been inducted into the Hall of Fame, coached at State League, NSL & A-League level AND had a street named after him.
Polonia went on to become the Croydon Kings & Croydon Park became Polonia Park. at the time of writing the Polonia/Kings club has 4 nominations putting them at the upper echelon of our GrassRoots clubs.
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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.
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