Final Preperations
By: Marcus | July 30th, 2009The highly anticipated new A-League season starts in under a week and Melbourne have finished there preparations and a ready to go.
Our pre-season friendlies concluded last Sunday when we down Adelaide 2-1 in the Grand Final rematch in Tasmania. Brebner and Archie provided our goals while Cassio scored for the Red’s (A report can be found here). It appears that Melbourne Youth player Matthew Foschini is the man that Merrick has turned to, to possibly fill in the left back position as he participated in all the friendlies.
In other pre-season activity Sukha played in Thailand’s 1-1 draw against Liverpool, and Elasi has made his clam to be apart of Australia’s Under-20 World Cup squad by participating in Australia’s three matches played so far including a 3-1 win against USA 
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In other news in short:
Melbourne and ABC Radio (774 am) have reached an agreement that will see ABC broadcast all of our home games.
Kevin Muscat earmarked to succeed Ernie (on the back of the Buckley and Collingwood saga in the AFL).
Glen Moss has beaten Langerak in the battle of the keepers, become the number one choice over the youngster.
Melbourne’s new training base is at Monash University. (Picture above)
Stay tuned for the MVFC vs CCM preview on Wednesday
Category: Melbourne Victory Team News
Tags: Adelaide United, Archie Thompson, Australia U-20 National Team, Casio, Central Coast, Ernie Merrick, Glen Moss, Grant Brebner, Liverpool, Matthew Foschini, Melbourne Victory Team News, Mitchell Langerak, Monash University, Nathan Elasi, Surat Sukha, ThialandSubscribe
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Melboure may be in the best position to achieve a feat so far unprecedented – take back to back A-League titles. Glenn Moss is easily the league’s best goalkeeper, centre backs are solid, and the attacking duo of Alssop and Archie can only really be rivaled by GCU’s Smeltz and Porter.
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I think our starting 11 can achieve it tho, if we get injuries in the back line we could be in touble
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