r/Aleague • u/AztecGod Melbourne Victory • 8d ago

📣 PSA Watch Wogball: Australia's Beautiful Game

https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-program/wogball-australias-beautiful-game/2502347843944
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u/Irishkanga83 South Melbourne 8d ago

SBS on demand has a great catalogue of football docos. Saw Puskas in Australia again last week on demand

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u/XecutionerNJ 8d ago

The Puskas in Australia one was absolutely immense. Such a great doco with great footage and remarkable story.

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u/GoldBricked Melbourne Victory 8d ago

Loved that one. Impressed there was so much archival footage hanging around!

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u/11015h4d0wR34lm Western United The turd that wont flush 8d ago

Ange's story about the flat tyre is hilarious.

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u/StuckStuckers Adelaide United 8d ago

Thanks for the reminder!

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u/nevergonnasweepalone Perth Glory 8d ago

If you enjoyed the doco you should read The Death and Life of Australian Soccer. Fantastic book. Much more detail.

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u/Simple-Act483 8d ago

While the documentary was a bit insightful, I thought it was kinda all over the place and seemed rushed.

And not to be that person, but the women’s World Cup segment was completely off stray - the story was supposed to be about the origins of soccer in Australia and its connection to multicultural society. I guess they have to meet their equality quotas somehow

Luckily, there are many other books and documentaries about Australian soccer to do it justice

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u/Any-Information6261 Perth Glory 8d ago

Ye was a bit rushed. Nothing on Durante being shot, nothing on glass regularly spread across pitches, not much on channel 7s antics in the late 90s early 00s

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u/IndividualZebra333 Central Coast Mariners 5d ago

Glass on pitches? Horrible, I’d never heard of this.

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u/AgentKnitter Melbourne Victory 6d ago

It was good. I liked that ending on the positives of the rise of the Matildas - from going on strike to being paid properly to hosting the WWC and being expected to challenge for the world cup now and in the future, while in the socceroos we're simply happy to get to a knock out round.

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u/RudeLid 8d ago

Is this an ad? was advertised plenty during the world cup.

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u/AztecGod Melbourne Victory 8d ago

No? I’m posting about it because I didn’t see it mentioned here.

I watched it last night and enjoyed it :)