How good is this!
Move over Woden Valley Redbacks and the Dana Cup.
This Canberra mob won the Gold medal at the Australian Masters competition. Outstanding and read the article below and see how many of these medals this team has been winning over the years. Unbelievable. They look pretty fit too.
Canberra Old Boys, Australian Masters Games, Adelaide 2011 (Tuggeranong players unless otherwise marked)
Back (L-R): Momo Radulovich, Woody Elliott, Ian Ippoliti (Griffith NSW), Alan Greenslade, Tony Santolin (Griffith NSW), Wally Hoefel, Rudi Aiono (Brisbane Qld), Alan Froud, Bob Kostic (Hervey Bay Qld), Bill Hardie, Les Herbert.
Front (L-R): Norm Holcroft, Milan Novakovic, Joe Kaczor (Brisbane Qld), Stewart Leenards (Perth WA), Ken Menser, Pat Sergi (Griffith NSW), Wally Conlon.
Canberra Old Boys victorious domination!
Champions of the Australian Masters Games
GOLD! GOLD! for Canberra Old BoysAt the 2011 Australian Masters Games in Adelaide (7 – 16 October) the Canberra Old Boys Masters team won TWO gold medals. They won gold for the Over 55 Division as they were the only team entered. They were then placed in the Over 50 Division, recruited two over 50 players, then put the younger teams to the sword to win their second gold medal. An impressive performance when you consider the team’s average age was 58, and included 7 players aged over 60.
Over 6 days, the Old Boys played 8 x 60 minute games. After losing the first game (after being severely jet-lagged from the arduous flight from Canberra), the Old Boys won the rest, scoring 17 goals with 5 against.
The Canberra Old Boys are a ‘touring side’, affiliated with the Tuggeranong United Football Club, whose motto is ‘degenerating disgracefully’. The Old Boys draw its core from older players of the TUFC masters teams, and are complemented by other players from around Australia who have links with the team.
They have participated in masters tournaments every year since 1994, around Australia and overseas, always playing in the oldest age division, and on the way accumulating an impressive medal tally, highlighted by winning the World Masters Over 45 division in Melbourne in 2002:
1994 World Masters Brisbane (Over 45) SILVER
1995 Australian Masters Melbourne (Over 45) BRONZE
1996 SOS Masters Gold Coast (Over 45) –
1997 Australian Masters Canberra (Over 45) SILVER
1998 World Masters Portland USA (Over 45) SEMI-FINAL
1999 Australian Masters Adelaide (Over 45) GOLD
2000 ASPAC Masters Gold Coast (Over 45) SEMI-FINAL
2001 Australian Masters Newcastle (Over 45) SILVER
2002 World Masters Melbourne (Over 45) GOLD
2003 Australian Masters Canberra (Over 45) GOLD
2004 Pan Pacific Masters Gold Coast (Over 45) SILVER
2005 World Masters Edmonton Canada (Over 45) –
2006 Pan Pacific Masters Gold Coast (Over 45) GOLD
2007 Australian Masters Adelaide (Over 45) GOLD
2008 Pan Pacific Masters Gold Coast (Over 50) GOLD
2009 World Masters Sydney (Over 50) –
2010 Pan Pacific Masters Gold Coast (Over 55) BRONZE
2011 Australian Masters Adelaide (Over 50) GOLD
2011 Australian Masters Adelaide (Over 55) GOLD
Tuggeranong masters in the 2011 team were: Bill Hardie, 64, Alan Froud, 64, Wally Conlon, 62, Alan Greenslade, 62 (all originals from the first tournament in 1994), Momo Radulovich, 65, Wally Hoefel, 59, Les Herbert, 58, Ken Menser, 57, Woody Elliott, 56, Norm Holcroft, 55, Milan Novakovic, 51.
What’s next for the Old Boys? The Gold Coast in November 2012, then the World Masters in Torino, Italy in August 2013. Some older Old Boys also join the Oklahoma City Over 60 team in July each year to take part in the US Veterans Nationals.