This conversation is a wonderful insight into Ante Juric, the man, and the coach. This conversation is filled with honesty, frankness, and humour as well as significant wisdom. Ante fell in love with the game in Canberra. Playing for Canberra Deakin, under Tom Sermanni, he made his senior debut for this fantastic club as a youngster, like so many before. The Zelic brothers, Josip Simunic and George Kulcsar to name a few. He played almost 400 games in the NSL, with Melbourne Knights, Sydney Olympic and Canberra Cosmos. He also plied his trade in Portugal, Norway and Malaysia before finishing hi ..read more

This is an insightful reflection of Trevor Morgan’s long coaching journey as well as the challenges he currently faces as Australia's National U17 (Joeys) Coach and National Technical director. Trevor fell in love with the game in the Blue Mountains with Hazelbrook Hawks. He is the first to admit his senior playing career wasn’t elite, but his early introduction to coaching enabled a long time to grow and develop his coaching skills. He was influenced by several wonderful Australian Coaches including David Lee and Casey De Bruin (a huge fan of legendary Victorian Coach Lenny McKendry). Trevor ..read more

How do you become a good coach? ‘Go and do your badges and go and spend 10 years on the grass ………. and try not to be sacked too often!’ Wonderful pearls of wisdom from Kenny Lowe. This conversation is a wonderfully open look inside of Kenny’s football coaching journey and the significant people and moments in it and the wisdom he has gained along the way. Kenny is currently the Director of Football at ECU Joondalup in the Football West NPL, where he coaches the first team and the juniors. This is in his spare time as he is the Principal Mechanical Engineer for Wood. He had 10 clubs in his 300 ..read more

This conversation is a wonderfully open look inside of Kevin Muscat's football coaching journey and the significant people and moments in it and the wisdom he has gained along the way. ‘Musky’ as he is affectionately known in Australia has just kicked-off his second season as Manager of Yokohama F Marinos in Japan’s J-League. After he took over from Ange Postecoglou in 2021, the Marinos finished runners-up in his first season. Kevin had a 600-game professional career for club and country. Commencing as a junior with Sunshine George Cross in the National Soccer League, then Heidelberg, South Me ..read more

Aurelio has recently returned to Australia from coaching at BG Panthum United in Thailand League One. As a player, he had a remarkable 500 plus game professional career in Australia, Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, and Japan, and finished playing back in Australia. Over 260 games were with Adelaide City in the National Soccer League. And of course, he was a member of the ‘Golden Generation’, playing 44 times for the Socceroos. Vidmar's coaching journey began in Australia with Adelaide United as Assistant to John Kosmina, before taking on the Head Coach role and finishing runners up i ..read more

In this episode, recorded in November 2021, Gary Cole speaks with Leah Blayney.  Leah is the Head Coach of the Young Matildas and the Future Matildas, which she combines with teaching at Westfield Sports High. Her love for the game began in the Blue Mountains in New South Wales with Wentworth Falls Warriors, and then Macarthur Rams U14 Boys, where she was the only girl in the team. Leah headed to College in the USA and that's where she started her coaching journey. Her playing career saw her play professionally in Australia, USA and Sweden. She also played for the Young Matildas and the M ..read more

Alen is the current Head Coach of the Philippines Women’s National Team (the Malditas, yes that’s correct!), and is preparing them for the 2022 AFC Asian Cup, which is being held in India. The Philippines will play in a group with Indonesia, Thailand and of course Australia (the Matildas). His Serbian background led him to Bonnyrigg White Eagles in Sydney’s west, but a knee injury shortened his playing career and as a teacher he began coaching. Staj has had a remarkable coaching journey that began at the Hills Sports High School and at New South Wales Institute of Sport, coaching the Sapphires ..read more

Paddy Kisnorbo is busy preparing his Melbourne City Men’s team for the kick-off to the 2021-2022 season after finishing his first season as Head Coach as A-League Men’s Premiership and Championship winners. A first ever for Melbourne City! He played his junior football at Essendon City and Bulleen, made his NSL debut with South Melbourne before heading to Hearts in Scotland as a nineteen-year-old. He then had a long professional career in England with Leicester City, Leeds United and Ipswich Town. Paddy represented the Socceroos 18 times and unfortunately missed the 2010 World Cup with a torn ..read more

Steve Corica is Head Coach of the A-League Men at Sydney FC. He played his junior football in Innisfail in North Queensland, before heading to the Australian Institute of Sport.  He played just under 500 professional games in Australia, England and Japan. Steve’s preparation for coaching began while he was playing, and he started to gain his coaching licences before taking on an assistant role with the Sydney FC Youth Team. He served a seven-year apprenticeship at Sydney with the Youth Team and then as an assistant to Vitezslav Lavicka, Frank Farina and Graham Arnold, before taking on the ..read more

Ash Wilson is the Head Coach of the Newcastle Jets A-League Women’s team. Ash also works in the Jets Academy program and in addition is a full-time teacher at Hunter Sports High. Ash played her early football in Lismore on the far north coast of New South Wales. Her dad was integral in helping Ash into the game, being her role model as well as helping her to fall in love with the game. She began coaching early in her career, working first in the Macquarie Academy while she was playing and then continuing as she moved to Adamstown Rosebuds after moving to Newcastle to play. This is another wond ..read more