Soccer International April 2011

Interview with Sydney FC and Australia U21 Defender Matthew Jurman

It’s been a tough A League campaign for the double winners, what went wrong? 
Our season didn’t start very well getting our first win in round 11 didn’t help, we had injuries to key players for much of the season, but in 2011 we have turned it around a little too late but everyone is looking forward to doing well in the ACL.

What are you expecting from the upcoming Asian Champions League campaign??

We obviously know its going to be tough playing the best of Asia but all the boys and coaching staff are looking forward to the challenge and hoping to prove some people who think we are going fail wrong! All the boys have a lot of motivation to go out and play well as a team and bring some success

You suffered a bad injury last season, It must have been a big blow since you were slowly finding your place in the first team?? Yeah last season’s injury was the worst I’ve experienced, I went under the knife and got everything fixed with my 5th metatarsal. But I’ve been back for a long time now and fingers crossed I keep injury free.

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Alex Milic

Alex Milic is a young  journalist.


 In addition to reporting for national based football magazine Goal Weekly, Alex also writes for Australian and International Football/Soccer Weekly, the Serbian daily paper VESTI and Australia's longest serving football magazine Soccer International. He covered  Sydney FC matches for the clubs official website during the double winning 2009/2010 season.

His online work includes reporting for ESPN Soccernet, Goal.com and the Bundesliga site. He is also a reporter for the number one volleyball site volleycountry.com

Fluent in English and Serbian

Alex has interviewed many well known faces in the world of Football, Basketball and Volleyball.

Some of the big names in World Football-

Nikola Zigic - Birmingham City  and Serbia footballer
Stefan Kiessling - German International Footballer
John van't Schip - Euro 1988 winner with the Netherlands-current Melbourne Heart Coach
Craig Foster- Former Socceroo current SBS chief football analyst
Wynton Rufer - Oceania Footballer of the Century, Former NZ International and current FIFA Ambassador
Dusan Bajevic - Yugoslav and Greek Football legend. Played at the 1974 World Cup. One of the most successful managers in Greek football history. 
Ivan Rakitic - Sevilla and Croatia midfielder
Ratko Dostanic - Red Star Belgrade Manager


Contact: alex.milic@live.com
Mobile: 0432 808 481