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Longest Virtual Formation Competition

Want to win a $500 Visa gift card for your club? With our Longest Virtual Formation Competition, proudly supported by VicHealth, you can be in with a chance to win! It’s simple, we want to see you and your teammates perform the longest virtual passing formation

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Get In The Game!

Football is coming back - it's time to Get In The Game! With the entire state now within the Third Step of the COVID-19 Roadmap, junior footballers can return to play! It is time for our football community to once again fill Victoria’s football pitches with laughte

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Return to Play/Training Conditions update (6 Nov)

Following the movement of metropolitan Melbourne into the Third Step of the COVID-19 Roadmap, we have released an update to the Return to Play/Training Conditions for Juniors and Seniors. Metropolitan Melbourne now joins Regional Victoria in the Third Step, allowing contact sp

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GO Soccer Mums Story of the Month October winner: Elizabeth Oswald

A big congratulations to Elizabeth Oswald from Elwood, who is October’s GO Soccer Mums Story of the Month winner, proudly supported by VicHealth.

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The Lowe brothers from St Kilda

Originally published 24th April 2015 Four footballing brothers from St Kilda enlisted to fight in the Great War; one never came home, writes Ian Syson. Tales of brothers at war have a powerful emotional appeal. The movie, Saving Private Ryan is a good example of the way

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The strange case of Thomas Witham and Whitmore Pink

Originally published 21st April 2015 From starving on Melbourne's streets to a heroes' homecoming in MIrboo North; this is the story of soccer players Thomas Shoesmith and William Preston, written by Dr Ian Syson. On 28 September 1913, two men walked into the Russell St Pol

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A gentleman of the game

Originally published 22nd April 2015 When Arthur Godfrey Goodson was killed in action in France on August 3, 1916, Victorian football lost a bright star.

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The last Dockerty Cup before the Great War

Originally published 23rd April 2015 The 1914 final was a stalemate to foreshadow the mind-numbingly futile military campaigns to come, writes Victoria University academic Ian Syson. Unbeknown to many at the time, the Dockerty Cup Final of 1914 was to be the end of a brief

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The Irymple nine

Originally published 20th April 2015 This is the story of a brave regional club whose nine boys never came home from WWI, as discovered and written by Dr Ian Syson. Pre-war soccer had not only grown in the metropolitan region. It took root in the country as well.