Well done to Steven Lustica on making the move to Gold Coast United, Canberra FC wish him all the best.

Andrew Barisic has started his goal scoring role at his new club Gold Coast United with a couple in the back of the net in a pre-season friendly.

Well done to Daniel Subasic on taking out the Jim Roberts Award 2009, Daniel joins a growing list of Canberra FC players to have their name on the award.

Congratulations Daniel and good luck with the upcoming season.

Canberra FC had it's last pre-season friendly before the 2009 Federation Cup starts and it was against another big club the Melbourne Knights, the ex NSL champions came to town to also have a hit out before the Victorian League starts.

Infront of a good crowd the Melbourne Knights took the match 2-1 and speaking with ex Canberra FC player and now with Melbourne Knights Maty Grbesa said it was a good match with both sides going out there for a win.

	Canberra FC and Sydney United....50 years and still going strong.

Canberra FC vs Sydney United Feb 14th at Deakin Stadium 2009.

In a pre-season friendly match the two oldest Croatian backed clubs in Australia hit it out, long history for both clubs so it was very fitting that the game ended up in a 1-1 draw and with both teams nearing the season proper in their leagues it was a good time to see where the players are at for both coaches. Miro Trninic of Canberra FC would have been happy with his sides performance and Ante Milicic would have been pleased with the away performance.

Sydney United pass on their thanks to Canberra FC for their support over the last 50 years.

 Croatia Deakin Soccer Club hold their 50th Anniversary Gala Night 6th of December 2008

Over 500 people attend the Croatia Deakin Soccer Club 50th Anniversary Gala Night

MC for the event Mr Andy Paschalidis

Emma Plascak & Bernie Lustica

2008 CHAMPIONS

Canberra FC take out the 2008 Premiership with a wonderful season in which the team only dropped one game and won the rest.

Well done to the boys on a great season.

Well done to the Canberra FC Under 15 Division 1 team for taking out the 2008 title.

players warming up at the Camp

Cormac teaching the players

The players doing some shooting drills

Some more shooting

Ex Ac Milan Player Andrea Icardi tells the players how to play small sided games

Canberra FC juniors Daniel Grzic,Stipe Jurjevic and Michael Grzic enjoy the AC Milan Camp

Canberra FC junior Kristian Dosen with ex AC Milan player Andrea Icardi

Well done to Luca Kmet on taking out the 2008 Under 10 Kanga Cup player of the tournament.

Luca Kmet with the player of the tournament trophy.

Congratulations to the four Canberra FC junior players who took out the Coerver Academy player awards at the Coerver Academy Presentation Night.

Starting off with the awards was Luca Kmet who won the top player award in his age group Under 8 Coerver player of the year. Luca is with the Canberra FC Under 9 Stingrays team. Second award went to Niko Kresic who took out the Under 10 Coerver player of the year and he is with the Canberra FC Under 11 team. Absent in the photo but had a great season last year and topped it of with winning the Under 14 Coerver player of the year was Adem Kocak who is with the Canberra FC Under 14 team and is also off to Spain wit the touring Coerver Academy.

The Big award at the end of the night and the youngest player ever to win the award was Marc Tokich who took out the Jim Roberts Coerver Academy Player of the year, he added his name to the trophy along with players such as Stephanie Tokich and Sam Munro on that list, Marc is also wit the Canberra FC Under 9 Stingrays team....... Well done to all four Canberra FC players.

Coerver Presentation Night 2008

from Canberra FC.

Niko Kresic with Jim Roberts and Jason Lancsar

	Matthew Grbesa

Canberra FC junior and senior player Matthew Grbesa has been offered a spot in this years Victorian Premier League with one of the most know Clubs in Australia, back in the NSL days the Melbourne Knights had been a top team for a number of years, winning Premierships with players such as Mark Viduka,Danny Tiatto,Steve Horvat,Ante Juric,Frank Juric,Josip Simunic and many more exports from that Football proud club.

Canberra FC a proud and happy to see Matthew make a move out of the ACT Premier League into the Victorian League.

The Club wishes Matthew all the best in the upcoming season with the Melbourne Knights where he will join former Canberra FC and O'Connor Knights player Ian Waldon who also has made the move to the Victotrian League.

The newly renamed Canberra FC (formerly Croatia Deakin Canberra) paid host to one of its favourite sons last Friday, when former Socceroo Captain Ned Zelic popped in to check on the progress of the club's new stadium.

Zelic , currently with the Newcastle Jets in the Hyundai A-League, has returned to Australia after more than a decade abroard, after having played at the highest level in both Europe and Asia.

The former Canberra Deakin junior was impressed with the plans for the brand new stadium, which will be located on the site of the old ground, adjacent to the lavish Deakin Football club.

He even got down and dirty, helping Canberra FC president Marko Vrkic unscrew the bolts from the massive floodlighting towers, which will be brought down to make way for new and upgraded floodlights.

According to Vrkic , work is progressing on the stadium ahead of schedule.

"The biggest obstacle we were faced with was the underground drainage and sewage system. That took up a lot of our time and money. Now that's taken care of, we expect the stadium to be complete by the end of the year; well and truly in time for season 2007" he explained.

Zelic, meanwhile, has told club officials he intends to help out at the club where he started his life as a footballer, in some capacity, once his playing career ends.

Article provided by www.croatianherald.com.au

	"The touring party"

<!-- Header: [end] --><!-- Text: [begin] -->Canberra FC have been invited to play in the 2007 Croatian World Club Tournament to be held in Croatia in July. A number of Croatian backed clubs have been invited from all around the world for this first time tournament. Sydney United FC was the club chosen but the club has declined and Canberra FC has been asked to take Australian Croatian Club spot.

Canberra FC will look at taking a squad of approx 18 to 20 players for this 3 week tour in Croatia. Players and staff who are attending the tournament are as follows and the club wishes them as safe and fun trip to Croatia;

Players attending -

1 - Nathan Denham (Canberra FC)

2 - Doug Hynson (Canberra FC)

3 - John Ison (Canberra FC)

4 - Tony Aleksovski (Canberra FC)

5 - Aidan Brunskill (Canberra FC)

6 - Steven Lee (Canberra FC)

7 - Tony Haider (Canberra FC)

8 - Elia Salloum (Canberra FC)

9 - Mike Katz (Canberra FC)

10 - Paul Ivanic (Canberra FC)

11 - Steve Rezo (O'Connor Knights)

12 - Marko Ljubic (Canberra FC)

13 - Michael Spaleta (Canberra FC)

14 - Adam Spaleta (Canberra FC)

15 - Josip Lekic (Canberra FC)

16 - Nikola Brozinic (Canberra FC)

17 - Ivan Pavlak (Canberra FC)

18 - Mario Polegubic (Canberra FC)

19 - Anthony Bekavac (Canberra FC)

20 - Filip Kelava (Sydney)

21 - Denis Jurjevic (Wollongong)

Staff - Marko Vrkic, Martin Radic, Nado Spaleta, Ante Levanat, Wal Gotavac.

Croatia Trip-June/July

Friendly Games;

Game 1 - Canberra FC 1 - 2 NK Primorac

Game 2 - Canberra FC 0 - 1 NK Zadar

Game 3 - Canberra FC 3 - 1 NK Ploce

Game 4 - Canberra FC 1 - 0 NK Ljubuski

Tournament Games;

Match 1 - Canberra FC 5 - 1 Croatia Willafranche(France)

Match 2 - Canberra FC 2 - 2 Croatia Berlin(Germany)

Match 3 - Canberra FC 3 - 1 Zrinski Chicago(USA)

Tournament Final;

Canberra FC 1 - 3 Croatia Toronto(Canada)

WELL DONE TO CANBERRA FC ON MAKING THE FINAL IN ZAGREB.