KGee Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Was that before or after his industrial tackle on the half way line? But yes I noticed the same. Lest we forget it was his cross that led to our ACL win. Alexander, Erdz, DinoPresinger and 1 other 4 Link to comment
Johnno Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 around our bay, people were fairly ambivalent to him, but as the game went on and his challenges got more and more amateur the boos started to come Prydzopolis 1 Link to comment
HillsWanderer Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Was that before or after his industrial tackle on the half way line? But yes I noticed the same. Lest we forget it was his cross that led to our ACL win. It was in the second half. around our bay, people were fairly ambivalent to him, but as the game went on and his challenges got more and more amateur the boos started to come Fair enough. Prydzopolis 1 Link to comment
Johnno Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Was that before or after his industrial tackle on the half way line? But yes I noticed the same. Lest we forget it was his cross that led to our ACL win. It was in the second half. around our bay, people were fairly ambivalent to him, but as the game went on and his challenges got more and more amateur the boos started to come Fair enough. it certainly wasn't solely an 'ex-player' thing, Tyson got some good applause when he walked by at half time as did covic at full time Prydzopolis 1 Link to comment
HillsWanderer Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Was that before or after his industrial tackle on the half way line? But yes I noticed the same. Lest we forget it was his cross that led to our ACL win. It was in the second half. around our bay, people were fairly ambivalent to him, but as the game went on and his challenges got more and more amateur the boos started to come Fair enough. it certainly wasn't solely an 'ex-player' thing, Tyson got some good applause when he walked by at half time as did covic at full time That's why I was confused because I applauded Tyson and Covic. Prydzopolis 1 Link to comment
Guest redwhiteblack Posted November 2, 2015 Share Posted November 2, 2015 Golec wasn't as much as a favourite as Covic and Tyson. Covic was a king (obviously) and whilst Tyson didn't play much, he loved the fans as much as they loved him. Yeah sure, Golec whipped in that cross (early ball is tasty), but other than that, he was a liability in defence and offered little in attack. GAMISU 1 Link to comment
GAMISU Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 no loss , him at perth this year proves it xxBrandonxx 1 Link to comment
StringerBellend Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Said last night on Fox that he's one his way out of Perth. To Moldova, that's one of those places I picture that all the blokes dress like Borat. JackDoff 1 Link to comment
Alexander Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Said last night on Fox that he's one his way out of Perth. To Moldova, that's one of those places I picture that all the blokes dress like Borat. Not just him moving on either. They mentioned a host of names from the Perth squad that were moving on this month Prydzopolis 1 Link to comment
toonarmy Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 Sciola gone, Thwaite off to China, risdon maybe off, djulbic out for season. They barely have 11 contracted players with the club/fit at the moment DinoPresinger and Prydzopolis 2 Link to comment
Prydzopolis Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 Said last night on Fox that he's one his way out of Perth. To Moldova, that's one of those places I picture that all the blokes dress like Borat.Not just him moving on either. They mentioned a host of names from the Perth squad that were moving on this monthGee what is going on at the club right now? Anyone know the reason behind all the departures? Link to comment
Alexander Posted January 10, 2016 Share Posted January 10, 2016 Said last night on Fox that he's one his way out of Perth. To Moldova, that's one of those places I picture that all the blokes dress like Borat.Not just him moving on either. They mentioned a host of names from the Perth squad that were moving on this monthGee what is going on at the club right now? Anyone know the reason behind all the departures? I honestly just think the coach recognises that it needs a clean out. Turmoil of last year probably still permeating through the dressing room. Surprised by Golec leaving, but not Thwaite and the foreigners (who were poorly recruited). Prydzopolis 1 Link to comment
MathyouWSW Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 Said last night on Fox that he's one his way out of Perth. To Moldova, that's one of those places I picture that all the blokes dress like Borat. And the fans celebrate like this when their team wins? StringerBellend and ManfredSchaefer 2 Link to comment
Prydzopolis Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 FC Sheriff.... What a name!! Link to comment
StringerBellend Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 Happy birthday (according to my Twitter feed) Early ball in... Prydzopolis and Alexander 2 Link to comment
DCWSW Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 Apparently he's in talks with Perspolis, Iranian Giants based in Tehran who regularly get near 100k home crowds for their big games.. Prydzopolis 1 Link to comment
Carns Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 He's having quite the magical mystery tour. Good luck to him. Prydzopolis 1 Link to comment
wanderersfanatic Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 (edited) Golec joined a K2 club in Korea, recently just got let go. Might be the end for him. Edited March 20, 2017 by wanderersfanatic Link to comment
mack Posted March 20, 2017 Author Share Posted March 20, 2017 He's only 26. I'd be looking at him if I were the Mariners or Wellington. pseudonym 1 Link to comment
theguyyouwishyouwere Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 Apparently he's in talks with Perspolis, Iranian Giants based in Tehran who regularly get near 100k home crowds for their big games.. i'm confused. do they regularly get 100k, or is it only for their big games? Link to comment
theguyyouwishyouwere Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 On 5/25/2015 at 9:18 AM, theguyyouwishyouwere said: Thwaite is ****wit. I'd rather have a team full of Tando Velapi's than have one Thwaite on my team. nek minnit he's at wsw Link to comment
Taurus Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 5 minutes ago, theguyyouwishyouwere said: Why is this in the Golec thread? Your not are you Link to comment
mack Posted May 30, 2017 Author Share Posted May 30, 2017 On 2017-3-20 at 6:56 PM, mack said: He's only 26. I'd be looking at him if I were the Mariners or Wellington. I'm a genius. Just signed for the Mariners. Prydzopolis, DinoPresinger and wanderersfanatic 3 Link to comment
Prydzopolis Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 11 hours ago, mack said: I'm a genius. Just signed for the Mariners. You're going to have to turn the forum on to private, first we give the journalists the rumors for scoops and now we are turning into the scouting networks for the clubs. Why bother scouting when you can come here and we have all the info at the finger tips for you? mack 1 Link to comment
Taurus Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 56 minutes ago, Prydzopolis said: You're going to have to turn the forum on to private, first we give the journalists the rumors for scoops and now we are turning into the scouting networks for the clubs. Why bother scouting when you can come here and we have all the info at the finger tips for you? He'd been training with Mariners, prior to signing a deal Link to comment
Zelinsky Posted October 15, 2017 Share Posted October 15, 2017 Looked more competent as CB for CCM than Cornflakes for WSW. That's a bit of a worry really. Link to comment
theguyyouwishyouwere Posted October 16, 2017 Share Posted October 16, 2017 as if he wasn't gonna lift for this game. probably one of the few games he'll have this season where he won't be responsible for at least one goal Link to comment
pseudonym Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 News story about Golec http://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/central-coast-mariners/central-coast-mariners-antony-golec-recounts-extraordinary-saga-through-tansnistria-and-iran-20180209-h0vu7i.html It was pitched as the move that would give Antony Golec his best chance of playing in the illustrious UEFA Champions League, but buried in the fine print was a relocation to a country that doesn't exist. It was January 2016 and Golec was struggling for consistent football at Perth Glory when an offer to join Moldovan champions Sheriff FC arrived on his desk. He didn't know much more about them other than their coach was Croatian, they had won 14 of the last 16 league titles and played regularly in European competitions. At the age of 25, he felt he had nothing to lose. However, immediately after the dog-legged journey from his family's home in Sydney to the Moldovan capital, Chisinau, the reality of what lay ahead began to hit Golec. Within an hour of leaving the airport, he was startled by a second customs check to enter a country that wasn't on any map, but boldly displayed the name 'Transnistria'. The small eastern autonomous state is unrecognised by any UN nation, yet his chauffeurs ushered past the border with local passports. They paid tolls in Transnistrian currency, saluted flags that still bore the distinct hammer, sickle and star of the Soviet Union, whom Transnistria identifies with despite its collapse in 1991. Cars bore the Soviet insignia on number plates while the scars of a war 24 years earlier became all too frequent. "Flying into Moldova, [Chisinau] was a beautiful city, I was surprised and excited," Golec said. "But getting into [Transnistrian capital] Tiraspol was the complete opposite. It was like it just went through a war." It was one of the wealthiest and more controversial companies in eastern Europe that lured Golec to the continent's poorest nation. It's not just the most successful club in Moldova that Sheriff owns, or its three stadiums, but newspapers, TV networks, buses, advertising agencies, petrol stations, energy providers, mobile phone networks, supermarkets and construction companies. Atop of the influential company sits the former KGB agent, Victor Gusan. "The owner there ran everything in the state," Golec said. "Everything was 'Sherriff'. You had eyes on you 24/7. You had to be careful." While many locals languished in squalor, players were provided a life of luxury at a state-of-the-art training complex. But Gusan regularly reminded the players of the hand that fed them. The squad would line up outside of his office to collect their weekly pay. One by one, they would file past two guards armed with sub-machine guns to receive payments in cash. If performances weren't up to the president's liking, those envelopes would be empty. No one ever dared protest. "He would come to training with three or four Hummers and his body guards. You got the idea you couldn't mess with a guy like that," Golec said. "A lot of things happened the boys weren't happy about. There were times we wouldn't get paid even if we were coming first." Despite winning the league as expected, Sheriff's coach Zoran Vulic was sacked and all foreign players were told to look elsewhere. When a transfer offer from Korean club, Chunnam Dragons was approved by Sheriff, Golec packed his bags for the Far East. Or so he thought. "I was on the way to the airport when my agent called me. He landed in Korea a day before me and said, 'Turn around, you're going to Iran'. I thought it was a joke, I didn't believe it," Golec said. "There was an under-the-table deal done between [Iranian club Persepolis] and the owner of Sheriff where they would get more money. It was either to go to Iran or stay." But staying meant there was no place for Golec in the line outside Gusan's office for his weekly pay, nor on the team sheet. Worse, his accommodation had already been cancelled and he faced a homeless existence in Transnistria. "Really, I had no choice. I was forced to go to Iran," he said. The move was sweetened by reassurances he was joining arguably Asia's biggest club, Persepolis, who claim a supporter base nearing 40 million. His official unveiling by the club suggested that wasn't exaggerated. "When I first showed up to the training ground, they had 40,000 people there. The training facility was full of people who came out to just see one person," Golec said. "I felt like a movie star. It was crazy, but at the end of the day, that all meant nothing." The taste of stardom was quickly soured by a "nightmare". It began with visa complications. His international transfer clearance required by FIFA didn't arrive from Transnistria, nor too wages from Persepolis. The apartment promised wasn't delivered and every few weeks short-term accommodation was cancelled with no notice, giving him no assurances of where he would sleep in Tehran. That was all before being stricken by a mystery illness. "I was sick for two weeks in hospital. I was contemplating flying back, that's how sick I was, but I couldn't. I couldn't do anything, I couldn't get out of bed, the club didn't care, nobody checked up on me. I hadn't been paid in three months so I turned to the embassy," he said. Under FIFA statutes, players are eligible to terminate their contracts immediately if they go a quarter without payment and on the 90th day of not being paid or played, Golec fled Iran. To avoid Persepolis potentially blocking his departure, he left without any notice before filing his legal dispute on home soil. Haunted by his experience in Transnistria, Iran and yet another collapsed move to Korea, he didn't want his next job to be further away than a drive from his home in Newtown. In other ways, he was also hardened. The offer from Central Coast Mariners and coach Paul Okon led to his most mature performances. The centre back has played all but 13 minutes this season and for all of the Mariners' struggles, the back line hasn't been one of them - no team outside the top four has a leaner defence. Off-contract, in-form and in-demand again, Golec has received offers from abroad once more, but his experience isn't telling him to leave just yet. "I played in Moldova, lived in Iran but we're so lucky with what we have here in Australia and I will never take that for granted," he said. TheSweeper and StringerBellend 2 Link to comment
StringerBellend Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 58 minutes ago, pseudonym said: News story about Golec http://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/central-coast-mariners/central-coast-mariners-antony-golec-recounts-extraordinary-saga-through-tansnistria-and-iran-20180209-h0vu7i.html It was pitched as the move that would give Antony Golec his best chance of playing in the illustrious UEFA Champions League, but buried in the fine print was a relocation to a country that doesn't exist. It was January 2016 and Golec was struggling for consistent football at Perth Glory when an offer to join Moldovan champions Sheriff FC arrived on his desk. He didn't know much more about them other than their coach was Croatian, they had won 14 of the last 16 league titles and played regularly in European competitions. At the age of 25, he felt he had nothing to lose. However, immediately after the dog-legged journey from his family's home in Sydney to the Moldovan capital, Chisinau, the reality of what lay ahead began to hit Golec. Within an hour of leaving the airport, he was startled by a second customs check to enter a country that wasn't on any map, but boldly displayed the name 'Transnistria'. The small eastern autonomous state is unrecognised by any UN nation, yet his chauffeurs ushered past the border with local passports. They paid tolls in Transnistrian currency, saluted flags that still bore the distinct hammer, sickle and star of the Soviet Union, whom Transnistria identifies with despite its collapse in 1991. Cars bore the Soviet insignia on number plates while the scars of a war 24 years earlier became all too frequent. "Flying into Moldova, [Chisinau] was a beautiful city, I was surprised and excited," Golec said. "But getting into [Transnistrian capital] Tiraspol was the complete opposite. It was like it just went through a war." It was one of the wealthiest and more controversial companies in eastern Europe that lured Golec to the continent's poorest nation. It's not just the most successful club in Moldova that Sheriff owns, or its three stadiums, but newspapers, TV networks, buses, advertising agencies, petrol stations, energy providers, mobile phone networks, supermarkets and construction companies. Atop of the influential company sits the former KGB agent, Victor Gusan. "The owner there ran everything in the state," Golec said. "Everything was 'Sherriff'. You had eyes on you 24/7. You had to be careful." While many locals languished in squalor, players were provided a life of luxury at a state-of-the-art training complex. But Gusan regularly reminded the players of the hand that fed them. The squad would line up outside of his office to collect their weekly pay. One by one, they would file past two guards armed with sub-machine guns to receive payments in cash. If performances weren't up to the president's liking, those envelopes would be empty. No one ever dared protest. "He would come to training with three or four Hummers and his body guards. You got the idea you couldn't mess with a guy like that," Golec said. "A lot of things happened the boys weren't happy about. There were times we wouldn't get paid even if we were coming first." Despite winning the league as expected, Sheriff's coach Zoran Vulic was sacked and all foreign players were told to look elsewhere. When a transfer offer from Korean club, Chunnam Dragons was approved by Sheriff, Golec packed his bags for the Far East. Or so he thought. "I was on the way to the airport when my agent called me. He landed in Korea a day before me and said, 'Turn around, you're going to Iran'. I thought it was a joke, I didn't believe it," Golec said. "There was an under-the-table deal done between [Iranian club Persepolis] and the owner of Sheriff where they would get more money. It was either to go to Iran or stay." But staying meant there was no place for Golec in the line outside Gusan's office for his weekly pay, nor on the team sheet. Worse, his accommodation had already been cancelled and he faced a homeless existence in Transnistria. "Really, I had no choice. I was forced to go to Iran," he said. The move was sweetened by reassurances he was joining arguably Asia's biggest club, Persepolis, who claim a supporter base nearing 40 million. His official unveiling by the club suggested that wasn't exaggerated. "When I first showed up to the training ground, they had 40,000 people there. The training facility was full of people who came out to just see one person," Golec said. "I felt like a movie star. It was crazy, but at the end of the day, that all meant nothing." The taste of stardom was quickly soured by a "nightmare". It began with visa complications. His international transfer clearance required by FIFA didn't arrive from Transnistria, nor too wages from Persepolis. The apartment promised wasn't delivered and every few weeks short-term accommodation was cancelled with no notice, giving him no assurances of where he would sleep in Tehran. That was all before being stricken by a mystery illness. "I was sick for two weeks in hospital. I was contemplating flying back, that's how sick I was, but I couldn't. I couldn't do anything, I couldn't get out of bed, the club didn't care, nobody checked up on me. I hadn't been paid in three months so I turned to the embassy," he said. Under FIFA statutes, players are eligible to terminate their contracts immediately if they go a quarter without payment and on the 90th day of not being paid or played, Golec fled Iran. To avoid Persepolis potentially blocking his departure, he left without any notice before filing his legal dispute on home soil. Haunted by his experience in Transnistria, Iran and yet another collapsed move to Korea, he didn't want his next job to be further away than a drive from his home in Newtown. In other ways, he was also hardened. The offer from Central Coast Mariners and coach Paul Okon led to his most mature performances. The centre back has played all but 13 minutes this season and for all of the Mariners' struggles, the back line hasn't been one of them - no team outside the top four has a leaner defence. Off-contract, in-form and in-demand again, Golec has received offers from abroad once more, but his experience isn't telling him to leave just yet. "I played in Moldova, lived in Iran but we're so lucky with what we have here in Australia and I will never take that for granted," he said. What a crazy story Also confirmed he’s a Inner West hipster TheSweeper 1 Link to comment
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