George Tsamouras Football Journey

After a successful midweek hit-out against Cooks Hill, Newcastle Olympic take on Adamstown Rosebuds on Sunday afternoon.

Sunday 1^st March 2020:

Adamstown vs Newcastle Olympic at Adamstown Oval

First Grade kick off at 4.40pm

Reserves kick off at 2.45pm

U18s kick off at 1.00pm

Source: Tom Tsamouras

Newcastle Olympic WPL were victorious in all three of their matches vs Warners Bay and New Lambton on the weekend.

First Grade/Reserves  vs Warners Bay Olympic won 3-0

17s vs New Lambton Olympic won 7-1

14s vs New Lambton Olympic won 7-0

source: Tom Tsamouras

Newcastle Olympic dominated the trial games with Valentine over the weekend at Darling St Oval.

Saturday 22^nd February 2020

1st Grade – Valentine won 4-2
Goals: R.Papas, J.McGuinness (pen)

Reserve Grade – Olympic won 4-0

Under 18s – Olympic won 11-0

Sunday 23^rd February 2020:

U16S Olympic won 5-0

U15s Olympic won 13-0

U14s Olympic won 8-0

U13s Olympic won 3-1

U12s Olympic (NET) won 6-0

Source: Tom Tsamouras

Newcastle Olympic WPL u17s

Sunday 23^rd February 2020 at Novocastrian Park:

Newcastle Olympic WPL vs New Lambton

U14s kick off at 10.00am

U17s kick off at 11.30am

Sunday 23^rd February 2020 at Allen Oval Gateshead:

Newcastle Olympic WPL vs Warners Bay

1^st Grade/Reserves kick off at 2.00pm

source: Tom Tsamouras

Despite their hard work and excellent submission, Newcastle Olympic FC, has been cheated out of half a million dollars of Federal funding in the Morrison Government’s ‘sports rorts’ scandal.

Despite an independent assessment giving it a higher score than other projects that did secure funding, the local soccer club were denied funding that would have gone towards important upgraded facilities.

Thanks to Con Gounis, Secretary of Newcastle Olympic FC for meeting with me today and talking about the Morrison Government’s shameful mismanagement of taxpayer dollars.

source: https://www.facebook.com/SharonClaydonforNewcastle/?epa=SEARCH_BOX

Newcastle has missed out on funding for sporting upgrades in Hamilton South in two scandal-ridden Morrison Government programs – this is despite the fact the project was deemed worthy of funding by an independent assessment.

Federal Member for Newcastle Sharon Claydon said Newcastle Olympic Football Club applied unsuccessfully for Federal funding under the Community Soprt Infrastructure program of “sports rorts” infamy.

“The proposed project would take the Darling Street oval to the next level with a brand-new grandstand and refreshed facilities,” Ms Claydon said. 

“Once completed, the facilities would offer year-round use across the community and bring the ageing facilities up to spec for National Premiere League and FFA Cup competitions. 

“The Club requested $500,000 in Federal funding to supplement a $500,000 commitment from the City of Newcastle and $200,000 from the Club’s own fundraising efforts.”

Ms Claydon said that despite having strong community support, the Newcastle Olympic Football Club application was bypassed for less worthy projects.

“Newcastle Olympic Football Club has since learnt from the ABC that the Darling Street project scored highly with a rating of 76% in the independent analysis undertaken by Sports Australia. This is comfortably more than the 74% that would have been required to secure funding if the grants been decided on merit,” Ms Claydon said.

“The Morrison Government shamelessly used this publicly funded grants program as its own personal election slush fund, ignoring independent advice and awarding grants to Coalition-targeted seats rather than projects based on merit.”

The Club also applied unsuccessfully for a Federal Government grant under the Building Better Regions Fund, despite Ms Claydon writing a personal endorsement of the project to the Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, Michael McCormack.

“Regretfully, it seems this program was also an exercise in blatant pork barrelling. Indeed , we recently learnt that a staggering 94% of Building Better regions funding was funnelled to Coalition-held or Coalition-targeted seats,” Ms Claydon said.

“This is a government that repeatedly thumbs its nose at due process, fairness and integrity.”

Ms Claydon said the Morrison Government’s mismanagement of multiple grants programs was deeply disrespectful to hard-working community organisations.

“We already know that close to half the projects that were approved under this appalling sports rorts program weren’t even eligible, while deserving projects like the Darling Street redevelopment didn’t get a cent,” Ms Claydon said.

“This is a shameful betrayal of trust of the thousands of people in community sporting organisations across the country that toiled for days – if not weeks or months – filling out these grant applications in good faith.”

Ms Claydon said she had written to the Prime Minister to request that the Government deliver the Darling Street project funding in line with its obvious merit. 

“I’ve called on the Prime Minister to review the dodgy decisions of his Government and deliver this deserved funding to the Newcastle Olympic Football Club.” 

source: Sharon Claydon MP Federal Member for Newcastle

Lucas Walshe from Newcastle Olympic’s u14s NPL Youth team and Lachlan Griffiths from the u16s team recently received offers to join the Newcastle Jets. This is in addition to earlier offers to Cody Hopton (u14s) and Aswin Gurung(u15s). This brings the total number of players from Olympic to four for the 2020 season, a testimony to the quality in the Newcastle Olympic NPL Youth ranks.

Newcastle Olympic wishes to congratulate the boys and wish them every success in their future.

source: Tom Tsamouras

Newcastle Olympic welcomes Valentine Phoenix this Saturday, 22^nd February at Darling St Oval in a pre-season trial game at 4.00pm.

Saturday 22^nd February 2020:

Newcastle Olympic vs Valentine

U9s SAP kick off at 1.30pm

U10s SAP kick off at 2.30pm

U11s SAP kick off at 3.30pm

U18s NPL kick off at 1.00pm

Reserve Grade NPL kick off at 2.30pm

1^st Grade kick off at 4.00pm

Sunday 23^rd February 2020:

Newcastle Olympic vs Valentine

U12s NET kick off 1.30pm

U13s NPL kick off 3.00pm

U14s NPL kick off 4.30pm

U15s NPL kick off 6.00pm

U16s NPL kick off 7.30pm

Source: Tom Tsamouras

Giles Harrison, Ethan Lewis, Lorcan McCallum, Charlie Stevenson & Seth Anderson

NNSWF have announced their U14 Squad to travel to Japan in early May to participate in the 2020 Tokyo U 14 International Youth Football Tournament.

Congratulations to 5 boys from our Newcastle Olympic Under 14 Youth NPL team that have been selected to take part in the tournament. We wish the boys all the best in the tournament.

1. Ethan Lewis (keeper)
2. Lorcan McCallum
3. Giles Harrison
4. Seth Anderson
5. Charlie Stevenson

source: Tom Tsamouras

It’s an Olympic year and the boys from Darling Street are gearing up for what is expected to be another big season of Northern NPL football.

2019 was not the greatest for Olympic, finishing 4 wins out of the playof

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fs in 7th. But the Hamilton based club is determined to turn their fortunes around in 2020 with some monumental changes taking place in the off-season.

The biggest change in recent history took place at the end of the 2019 season with the club reverting back to its original name “Newcastle Olympic”. The blue and whites have been known as Hamilton since 1992 and any change was going to be tough for some, but as the clubs Vice President Jim Pappas explains, it’s about moving with the times. “We’ve been known as Hamilton for a while, so it’s gonna be a bit of a change for some people who have just known us as Hamilton since being in the first division, but with it being a national game now, with the national finals series, NPL and FFA Cup we thought it’s time to go back to our original name of Newcastle Olympic, so people really know where we are from” Pappas said.

Another a major change for 2020 will be the introduction of a Women’s Premier League team. Newcastle Olympic has taken over the license from Wallsend FC with many of the players from last year’s squad coming across to wear the blue of Olympic. The club has been busy in the player market with the signing Jenna Kingsley from the Newcastle Jets and Gemma House, who spent four seasons in the American College system. Olympic also have a couple more signings to come for the women’s team, so watch this space.

For the NPL side it’s about improving on last season and pushing for a top 4 finish. Coach Peter McGuinness has added some strength and experience to his roster with former Olympic players Dino Fajkovic and Blake Green returning plus the inclusion Scottish import Anthony Marenghi in the midfield and Kane Runge from Dandenong Thunder.

Newcastle Olympic NPL side will kick off their 2020 campaign away to Charlestown Azzurri at Lisle Carr Oval, Saturday March 21, 2:30pm Kick off. Whilst the Women’s team will get underway a fortnight earlier when they take on Mid North Coast at Taree on Sunday March 8, 3pm.

Just a reminder you can watch every Northern NPL game in 2020 along with a Women’s Premier League match of the round most weeks right here at Bar TV Sports.

Source: http://www.bartvsports.com.au