During the year 2000 the author organised an election for the Australian team of the century through a mailing list on Australian football. For each position, 15 players were suggested, but others could be chosen.
Thanks to all people who helped me for the voting of Australia’s Team of the Millennium. A few more words, before I came to the first result. This was just for fun. I used a System they used here in Europe too and its a fair one. Its not easy to make a pale vote, because the old days are gone, and we know most of the players just out of books. But for that, the result was great. The Oldies got a lot of points, so that shows me, that many people can remember them, and if its only out of the books. The Football today is totally different, but I had a few older guys in my voting list, who knows a lot about these days. I was happy and proud to have an Olyroo from the Olympic games 1956 in Melbourne and a World Cup Socceroo from 1974, in my list. It was very interesting to see how they vote.
Some final results are very close and I think we have a few surprises. I checked the results a lot of times, so I can say, there is no mistake in it. If you put all the per cent together, its less than 100%, that’s no mistake, because I listed only the first ten of every vote. I think its a great Team, but we have no chance to see them ever play.
1. MARK BOSNICH 8,5 per cent 2. MARK SCHWARZER 7,6 per cent 3. ROBERT ZABICA 7,0 per cent 4. TERRY GREEDY 6,9 per cent 5. RON LORD 6,8 per cent 6. BILL HENDERSON 6,2 per cent 7. JAMES McNABB 6,0 per cent 8. ALAN MAHER 5,7 per cent 9. RON CORRY 5,6 per cent 10. NORMANN CONQUEST 5,5 per cent 11. Jack Reilly 5,4 per cent 12. Todd Clarke 13. Zeljiko Kalac 14. Jeff Olver 15. George Cartwright 16. Jim Fraser 17. John Filan 18. Rob Austen
1. JOE MARSTON 12,7 per cent (12,73)
2. STAN LAZARIDES 12,7 per cent (12,66)
3. MEHMET DURAKOVIC 10,8 per cent
4. DRAGAN UTJESENOVIC 9,5 per cent
5. GRAHAM JENNINGS 8,7 per cent
6. MILAN BLAGOJEVIC 7,6 per cent
7. WALLY SAVOR 7,4 per cent
8. GEORGE HARRIS 6,8 per cent
9. GEORGE KEITH 6,7 per cent
10. NIGEL SHEPHERD 5,8 per cent
11. Frank Gallen 5,7 per cent (5,68)
Kevin O`Neill 5,7 per cent (5,68)
13. Gary McDowell
14. Dominic Longo
1. PETER WILSON 14,4 per cent 2. ALEXANDER TOBIN 13,9 per cent 3. CHARLES YANKOS 11,4 per cent 4. TONY HENDERSON 8,1 per cent 5. ALAN MARNOCH 7,8 per cent 6. BILL COOLAHAN 7,3 per cent 7. IVO PRSKALO 7,2 per cent 8. TOM JACK 6,6 per cent 9. STEVE BLAIR 6,1 per cent 10. ANDREW BERNAL 5,9 per cent 11. Doug Wendt 5,7 per cent 12. Bob Lawrie 5,6 per cent 13. Pat Hughes
1. MILAN IVANOVIC 14,1 per cent
2. PAUL OKON 12,8 per cent
3. MANFRED SCHAEFER 11,9 per cent
4. BOB HOGG 8,0 per cent
5. STEVE HORVAT 7,3 per cent (7,32)
JAMES TANSEY 7,3 per cent (7,32)
7. COLIN BENNETT 7,0 per cent
8. ROBBY DUNN 6,8 per cent (6,83)
9. ALEX GIBB 6,8 per cent (6,80)
10. CLIFF ALMOND 6,4 per cent
11. Steve Perry 6,1 per cent
12. Jack Evans 5,4 per cent
1. ALAN DAVIDSON 14,0 per cent 2. HARRY WILLIAMS 9,9 per cent 3. COLIN CURRAN 9,7 per cent 4. DAVID RATCLIFFE 9,4 per cent 5. GRAIG MOORE 9,3 per cent 6. STEVE O`CONNOR 9,2 per cent 7. TONY VIDMAR 9,1 per cent 8. GARRY VAN EGMOND 8,3 per cent 9. STAN ACKERLEY 6,6 per cent 10. CEC DRUMMOND 4,9 per cent 11. Cliff Sander 4,8 per cent 12. Harry Spurway 4,7 per cent 13. John Roche
1. NED ZELIC 14,5 per cent 2. PAUL WADE 11,6 per cent 3. RAYMOND RICHARDS 10,9 per cent 4. JOE WATSON 9,6 per cent 5. MURRAY BARNES 8,0 per cent 6. JAMES OSBORNE 7,6 per cent (7,58) 7. GARY BYRNE 7,6 per cent (7,56) 8. ERNEST TAPAI 7,1 per cent 9. GORDON NUNN 6,5 per cent 10. ARCHIBALD BLUE 6,3 per cent 11. Peter Raskopoulos 6,0 per cent 12. Roy Crowhurst 4,8 per cent 13. Steve Corica
1. JAMES ROONEY 14,5 per cent 2. ROBERT SLATER 14,1 per cent 3. KEN MURPHY 10,7 per cent 4. BOB BIGNALL 9,4 per cent 5. JASON VAN BLERK 8,9 per cent 6. JASON POLAK 8,7 per cent 7. DAVID HARDING 8,2 per cent 8. GEORGE CHRISTOPOULOS 6,5 per cent 9. ALAN WESTWATER 6,4 per cent 10. PERCY LENNARD 6,3 per cent 11. Joe Cunningham 12. John Perin 13. Mike Petersen 14. Gary Manuel
1. JOHN WARREN 11,9 per cent 2. JOHN WATKISS 11,7 per cent 3. OSCAR CRINO 11,6 per cent 4. JAMES MACKAY 10,7 per cent 5. CRAIG FOSTER 8,5 per cent 6. ZARKO ODZAKOV 8,2 per cent 7. PAUL TRIMBOLI 8,1 per cent 8. FRANK LOUGHRAN 7,3 per cent 9. ALAN AINSLIE 6,5 per cent 10. GEORGE BLUES 5,7 per cent 11. Les Scheinflug 3,6 per cent 12. Jim Cant 3,3 per cent 13. Dave Ward 2,8 per cent 14. Frank Micic 15. Agenor Muniz
1. RAYMOND BAARTZ 12,7 per cent 2. JOHN KOSMINA 11,5 per cent 3. MARK VIDUKA 10,5 per cent 4. GRAHAM ARNOLD 9,3 per cent 5. GEORGE SMITH 9,0 per cent 6. EDUARD KRNCEVIC 8,0 per cent 7. PETER OLLERTON 7,5 per cent 8. TOMMY McCOLL 7,3 per cent 9. MARSHALL SOPER 6,8 per cent 10. KEN BODEN 6,3 per cent 11. William Maunder 5,9 per cent 12. Collin Kitching 5,3 per cent 13. Damian Mori
1. REG DATE 12,4 per cent 2. FRANK FARINA 11,8 per cent 3. AURELIO VIDMAR 10,8 per cent 4. ADRIAN ALSTON 10,2 per cent 5. JUDY MASTERS 8,4 per cent 6. MAXWELL TOLSON 7,7 per cent 7. JIM PATIKAS 7,2 per cent 8. PETER SHARNE 7,1 per cent 9. FRANK PARSONS 6,9 per cent 10. PHIL O`CONNOR 6,0 per cent 11. Willie Rutherford 5,9 per cent 12. Tommy Cumming 5,6 per cent 13. George Blues
1. ATILLA ABONYI 13,0 per cent 2. HARRY KEWELL 12,3 per cent 3. ALF QUILL 10,3 per cent 4. BRANKO BULJEVIC 10,0 per cent 5. DAVID MITCHELL 9,8 per cent 6. GARY COLE 8,2 per cent 7. BILL VOJTEK 7,6 per cent 8. CHRIS KALANTZIS 6,5 per cent 9. MARK JANKOVIC 6,4 per cent 10. MIKE DENTON 5,5 per cent 11. Bruce Morrow 12. Ernie Campbell 13. Eric Hulme 14. Jim Armstrong 15. John Nyskohus
1. RALE RASIC 11,0 per cent 2. FRANK AROK 10,6 per cent 3. EDDI THOMSON 10,2 per cent 4. JOE VLASITS 9,9 per cent 5. LES SCHEINFLUG 9,4 per cent 6. TERRY VENABLES 7,4 per cent 7. JOE VENGLOS 6,3 per cent 8. RAUL BLANCO 6,0 per cent 9. FRANK FARINA 4,8 per cent 10. JAMES SHOULDER 4,7 per cent 11. Tom Jack 4,6 per cent 12. Rudi Gutendorf 4,1 per cent 13. Joe Marston 4,0 per cent 14. Jim Kelly 3,0 per cent 15. Tony Boggi 2,8 per cent 16. Brian Green 1,2 per cent 17. Tiko Jelisavcic
Mark Bosnich
Joe Marston Peter Wilson Milan Ivanovic Alan Davidson
Ned Zelic John Warren Jim Rooney
Reg Date Ray Baartz Atti Abonyi
Coach: Rale Rasic
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Author: André Krüger
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Last updated: 29 Apr 2002
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