Thursday 17 May 2007

Cocu Cola, the real thing.

As I type this it looks like SFC is going to miss out on what would have been the most significant signing for the A-league since its inception. SBS news have just reported that talks with the 36 year old Dutchman have all but reached a stalemate, and their focus has turned to to Jay Jay or Benito - and there is even a rumour that the right Aloisi may be in talks with the club.

Better football pundits (than I will ever be) have said in the past that what the Sydney FC and indeed, the A-league, is missing is quality world clarsh players pulling the strings on the pitch.

This is what football culture in Australia will eventually be built upon - a classy build up to a goal, a superb through ball, an intelligent switch of play. Football is its own best advertisement when the ball is moved around the park from player to player with effortless finesse, and players like Cocu can deliver this sort of game. This is what most Europeans know, and what the typical Aussie sports fan does not yet know he or she loves to see.

If the story is indeed true and the Sydney FC have missed out on Cocu then the whole HAL, and indeed we, the footballistas who read obscure blogs like these, have missed out on a leap forward in football entertainment in this country.