Joeys Mini World Cup

Looking back at 2020 and looking forward to the new 2021 with your host Heinrich Haussler

Episode 10 Podcast with Rale Rasic Welcome to today’s podcast and for our 10th Episode we have some one very special with us. Rale Rasic Socceroo and FIFA World Cup coach is joining us by phone from Sydney.Here is a brief summary about a man that has shaped Football in AustraliaRale has a very unique position in Australian football having been the first coach to take Australia to the finals of the 1974 FIFA World Cup in West Germany. Rale coached Australia in 58 international matches in the 4 years from 1970 to 1974.Rale Rasic immigrated to Australia in 1962 but returned to Yugoslavia after 18 months to serve in the army to full fill what was required of him. After he had met that obligations he returned to Australia and played football in the Victorian league. Not only did he play football, but he also revolutionized the game in Australia as a coach and was subsequently appointed as the national coach in 1970 at just 34 years of age, Rale masterminded Australia’s long road of qualification that we know ended up with being one of the 16 countries that had qualified for the 1974 FIFA World Cup.After a mammoth task being drawn in a group with Chile, East Germany and West Germany the eventual winners of the 1974 tournament, Rale and his Socceroo’s performed far above expectations at the tournament but apparently not enough for the Australian Soccer Federation who replaced him as the national coach, replacing him with Englishman Brian Green. Rale believes that he was dumped because he was not seen as being a real “Aussie”. Rale stated, “They took from me something that I was doing better than anyone else. I was a true-blue Aussie, and nobody can deny that. I taught the players how to sing the national anthem”. These days, as the first coach to take Australia to the World Cup finals, Rale Rasic is widely respected in Australian football.A massive lobby for Rale to return as Australia’s World Cup coach for 1979 began early in 1978 but never eventuated because Rasic made crystal clear his terms: complete and utter control and absolutely no interference from the Australian Soccer Federation. The ASF would never give a coach the job under those circumstances and conditions.Rale’s first coaching job was in Footscray, followed by Melbourne HSC, St. George Budapest, Marconi, and Pan Hellenic. In 1967 he coached Footscray to the Victorian championship and from 1968 to 1970 he was the Victorian senior state coach. In 1970 he coached the Victorian youth team to win the national championships and in 1971 he coached St. George to win the NSW grand final and Tokyo International Tournament. He coached Marconi to the Australian championships in 1972 and to the NSW grand final in 1973. In 1979 he coached Adelaide to win the NSL Cup final. From 1986 to 1988 his teams won the national championships and the NSL Cup final.In 1974 Rasic was listed among the top 35 coaches in the world by German Soccer expert Fritz Hack, and in 1977 and 1987 he was voted the national league coach of the year. He was a television presenter on SBS, during the Australian network’s 2006 FIFA World Cup coverage.He is the only footballcoach featured in the Sport Australia Hall of Fame, an inaugural inductee of the FFA Hall of FameIn 2004 Rasic was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for his service to soccer as a player, coach and administrator.But now let’s listen to Rale Rasic and Heinrich Haussler your host in the studio.

Our guest today is  Jon Maclean.Jon is one of the coaches that gained selection at the 2019 Fraser Coast Joeys Mini World Cup to come us a coach to Germany on the Joeys All Star Football Tour. Jon has been in Germany with us on several occasions and also has been at the Joeys Mini World Cup for many years, coaching and managing teams on tour and at the Cup. Jon will reflect on his first tournament and the early days in Inverell to the present location at Hervey Bay.. Coming from the Newcastle area he first brought a team from there to Inverell where he met Rale Rasic and Chris McLeod. Let’s reflect on the last 7 years of football at the tournament and overseas..........

Cal Lynch is a football coach from Rockhampton. Cal attended the 2019 Fraser Coast Joeys Mini World Cup at Hervey Bay. Cal was selected to join the Joeys All Star team to go on a coaching and playing tour of Germany. Due to COVID 19 the tour had to be postponed to June 2021. Cal will join the team as a coach on the 2021 tour and will also bring a team from Rockhampton to the 2021 tournament at Hervey Bay. As a coach he is very passionate about the game and has helped many young players with their skills structural play. Join Cal now and find out a little more about him and football at Rockhampton.

Our host Heinrich Haussler is talking to Danielle Maudsley who has been at the Joeys Mini World Cup at Inverell and Hervey Bay as first a player and now a coach and manager. Listen to her views on the tournament and the developing momentum on the Women's Game.

Today Mark Acaster from Red Lion Football is talking with Tournament Director Heinrich Haussler about the development of the Joeys Mini World Cup over the last 10 years and the future direction of the cup plus the great rewards for players and coaches.

A Podcast featuring Victoria Merrick, the Hervey Bay player who won the fully paid Football Tour to Germany at the 2019 Tournament at Hervey Bay, in the Open Women category. Victoria will join the Joeys All Star Team in June 2021 playing and being coached in Germany. Rale Rasic Socceroo and FIFA World Cup coach will be on tour with Victoria and the All Star team. Playing well overseas next year and Victoria may find herself playing football in Germany for 12 month stint.Nominate your team now you may be the next player selected, nominate to play in the 2021 tournament held in Hervey Bay played Sunday September 26th to Friday October 1st. The Fraser Coast JOEYS MINI World Cup - a tournament like no others, where you live your Dream and where Dreams come true.

Brock Duffy talking from Germany to us via phone. Brock a Rockhampton boy played at the Fraser Coast Joeys Mini World Cup in 2018 and was selected and traveled with the Joeys All Star Team to Germany in 2019. On this tour he was offered to return to Germany in 2020 and play professional football there. Listen to Brock's story

Connor McLeod reporting from Germany signing with Holzwickeder Football Club talking about playing and living in Germany living his childhood dream

Chris McLeod on the Joeys Mini World Cup. As one of the coaches and selectors who was with us from the first Cup played in 2010 Chris speaks to Heinrich Haussler the Tournament Founder about the Cup and all the opportunities it offers to players ands coaches. It gives a very good inside into the tournament and all that is connected with it.