The Soccer Ashes were first contested a century ago, then went missing for seven decades. Now they’re back and on the line at Brentford’s Gtech Community Stadium.
The world game is winning the war for the word “football” in Australia, according to new data which Football Australia says is evidence of the code’s growing status among younger generations.It has been almost 20 years since soccer’s national governing body began officially embracing the name used widely around the world in an effort to reposition the sport ahead of the launch of the A-League in 2005.
While the delineation between “old soccer” clubs and the “new football” era under then-chairman Frank Lowy caused ructions within the sport that remain unresolved, there is little doubt the symbolic pivot helped establish soccer – or football – as a mainstream pursuit in Australia.But if it ever caused confusion for supporters of Aussie rules, rugby league and rugby union, those days would appear to be over – or, at least, nearing an end..
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