Lane Cove Football Club

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Lane Cove Football Club

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Lane Cove FC 2018 Board Announced

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At the Lane Cove FC AGM held Monday, 20 November 2017, the 2018 Board was elected.

The 10 new Board Directors are:

  • Alexander White
  • Benjamin Easaw
  • Bowie Ka Yan Ng
  • Darren Thompson
  • David Tucker
  • Eliza Macgregor
  • Francis Child
  • Jason Yu
  • Steve Prescott
  • Thalia Child

Thank you to all Board Directors for taking on this volunteer position to help grow and improve our community club!

We would also like to thank the outgoing 2017 Committee Members for their valuable contributions. These include Byron Harris, Nick Stathakis, Amy Clarke, Aizaz Syed and very importantly Mick Hone, who served on the committee for 21 years.

The Beautiful Game and Community in Lane Cove

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 A group of seven year-olds who call themselves the Benfica Rockets, gathered at a residence in Lane Cove along with their support staff to watch the Socceroos in that crucial must-win FIFA World Cup qualifier in mid-November. The Rockets are a popular football team representing Lane Cove Football Club with great enthusiasm and panache in the local U8s competition.

The Rockets have played together for three years; starting their careers in the U6s. It has been three years of tears, laughter, laces coming undone, wins, losses that have felt like wins and post-game treats. The support staff around them aka parents and grandparents, have formed friendships that will stand the test of time and embody the true spirit of what a community like Lane Cove is all about. It is also testament to the very important role team sports play in a community.

Apart from the thrill of watching the Socceroos qualify for the World Cup, this great team and friends had a fantastic night together. A night made very special indeed by the crew from SBS who arranged a large outdoor screen for the night and put decorations up for the special occasion, turning the backyard into World Cup Qualifier central for nearly 40 fans of all ages. There was of course the added excitement of TV cameras capturing these young Socceroos fans willing their heroes on.

For the Socceroos and especially coach Ange, the 3-1 defeat of Honduras was the culmination of a long and arduous journey taking 22 games to qualify over two-and-a-half years despite only losing twice, which says something about how difficult it is to qualify for the best sporting competition in the world.

The match itself had everything. The nerves were jangling after an agonising first half where the Socceroos didn’t seem to be going anywhere despite having a lion’s share of the ball. When the second half got underway however, the game came alive with a very direct approach to goal resulting in a free kick smashed into the back of the net by Australian captain Jedinak. This really got the party started and two penalty kicks later, Jedi had a hat-trick and we are well and truly on the plane to Russia. The Rockets were in fine voice prompting a neighbour or two to pop over and join in the action!

Huge thanks to Lara, Jen, Lucy, Sean, Joey and Em from SBS for putting on a great night.

LCFC Attends NSFA Presidents Dinner

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On November 4 2017 LCFC representatives attended the annual NSFA presidents dinner at the Kirribilli Club.

2017 WAA Division 1 Player Matilda Vaughan won second place in the overall WAA Div 1 Golden Boot Award. A big congratulations on this wonderful achievement.

Please see photo of Matilda and LCFC President Francis Child.

Lane Cove FC at the Sydney International Cup (SIC)

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4 teams (U8, U9, U10 and U12) represented Lane Cove FC at the Sydney International Cup (SIC) at Narrabeen over the long weekend in October. It is a well organised and fun event with some very tough competition.  All teams seemed to have a great time!

At the opening ceremony, each team nominated a player to enter the juggling competition – to lift the ball with their feet, and keep it off the ground over 15-30m (depending on the age group) before delivering it into a bucket. It’s not as easy as it sounds yet our nominated players did us proud!

After each match, the opposition coach rated our goal keeper and nominated one of our players as the Most Valuable Player (MVP), along with the Ref’s records of the goal scorers. Each age group was awarded MVP, Golden Boot (for highest goal scorer) and Golden Glove (best goal keeper). We are proud to say one of our U8 kids won the Golden Glove for the entire U8 age group.

While the football was fun, it’s often the time between games that are most memorable for the kids. Beach trips and sock soccer (in the gymnasium on the wooden floors wearing socks) seemed to be the favourites. Although one family did nip off to grab a haircut and a new car between games!

  

New LCFC Banners

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We recently purchased some brand new Lane Cove FC Banners which were kindly organised by parents from our development squad teams and members of the development squad committee.

The banners were in action for the first time at the Sydney International Cup at Narrabeen just a couple of weeks ago!