2010 Westfield FFA National Junior Championships kick off in Canberra this week

Australia?s top junior footballers will descend on Canberra this week for the 2010 Westfield FFA National Junior Championships for Girls (5-7 April) and 2010 FFA National Junior Championships for Boys (8-10 April).
348 Under 13 representative players from the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern NSW, Northern Territory Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia will have their first taste of national competition at the O?Connor Football Fields.
FFA Technical Director Han Berger believes that the championships are an important part of the Talented Player Pathway within the National Football Curriculum.
?If we want to take our football in Australia to the next level, our youth development programs should focus more on development instead of results,? Berger said on the eve of the tournament.
?We are now looking for the skilful instead of the powerful, with mistakes being learning moments instead of being punished.
?We need to encourage individual play, initiative and risk taking.
?With these principles in mind, we have added a number of innovations to assess how the various teams have adopted the new National Football Curriculum that we began implementing last year.
?These innovations were successfully trialled at the recent 2010 FFA State Institutes Challenge and will also be used at the National Youth Championships later in the year,? concluded Berger.
Among the innovations to be used at the Championships are that the teams are placed into groups of similar ability (based on performances from previous championships) to ensure that fixtures are evenly matched and competitive. There will be promotion and relegation from these two groups from year to year from now onwards.
The tournament matches will consist of two (2) equal periods of twenty (20) minutes, and teams will play two (2) matches a day over three (3) days. Teams must also use all of their 16 players during the tournament, with all players having to play at least half of the team?s total playing time.
Although teams will still gain points in the traditional manner for wins and draws, an FFA Technical Committee will also assess the technical performance of each team during the tournament and will award an extra five (5), three (3) or one (1) bonus point(s) based on the manner in which the teams played throughout the week and in relation to their adoption of the principles of the National Football Curriculum.
Another innovation for the competition will be the selection of an ?All-Star? team for each group which will play the team that finishes at the top of each group on the final day of the tournament. The selection of players in the ?All-Star? team will be also be done by the FFA Technical Committee. The coach of the team that receives the maximum number of bonus points will be appointed the coach of the ?All-Star? team for that match. Individual awards will also be presented to outstanding players within positional groups at the end of the tournament.
This second edition of the tournament will also be used as part of the selection process for the Under 13 Girls and Boys national teams who will participate at the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Festival of Football (ASEAN) tournaments which will be held from 24 May to 6 June 2010 in Sabah, Malaysia for the Under 13 Boys and 20 June to 3 July in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam for the Under 13 Girls.
Newly appointed Westfield Australian Under 13 Girls Football Team Head Coach Nicola Williams will be a member of FFA Technical Committee for the 2010 Westfield FFA National Junior Championships for Girls along with Tom Sermanni (Westfield Matildas coach), Robbie Hooker (Westfield Matildas Assistant Coach), Paul Jones (Westfield Matildas Goalkeeper Coach), Mike Milovanovic (ACT Academy of Sport Head Coach) and Spencer Prior (Former English Premier League Player).
Qantas Australian Under 13 Boys Football Team Head Coach Ante Juric will join the FFA Technical Committee for the  2010 FFA National Junior Championships for Boys alongside Han Berger (FFA National Technical Director), Gary van Egmond (AIS Senior Assistant Coach) , Arthur Pappas (AIS Scholarship Coach), Ron Corry (AIS Goalkeeper Coach), Mike Milovanovic (ACT Academy of Sport Head Coach) and Paul Bentvelzen (Football NSW High Performance Manager) .

2010 Westfield FFA National Junior Championships for Girls
Under 13 Girls ? Pool A – Squads
NSW Metropolitan: 1.Nadine Knight (gk), 2.Victoria Guzman, 3.Erin Pridmore, 4.Emily Kos, 5.Chloe O?Brien, 6.Anja Cherry, 7.Courtney Milone, 8.Jemma Crane, 9.Rihanna Pollicina, 10.Natasha Prior, 11.Ruby Mosca, 12.Jessica Stofmeel, 13.Lucinda Coleman, 14.Demi Koulizakis, 15.Lauren Stein, 16.Annelise Karjalainen (gk)
Coach: Nadine Shiels
Manager: John Mundt
Northern NSW: 1.Danielle Redding (gk), 2.Laura Attwood, 3.Hope Eadie, 4.Erin Skewes, 5.Taylah Wilks, 6.Elizabeth Tonks , 7.Kally Lewis, 8.Tayla Gregory, 9.Tulia Palozzi, 10.Jacinta Sheelah, 11.Libby Copus – Brown, 12.Renee Gregory, 13.Serena Carter, 14.Tori Farley, 15.Averill Thornton, 16.Alison Traverso (gk)
Coach: Jason Aird
Manager: Mandy Howell
Queensland: 1.Vanessa Garside (gk), 2.Rylee Caspanello, 3.Sunny Franco, 4.Brooke Goodrich, 5.Sky Jensen, 6.Teagan Lynch, 7.Ambrosia Malone, 8.Brianna Moore, 9.Ayesha Norrie, 10.Laura Sevil, 11.Sienna Tucker, 12.Claire Urquhart ? Watson, 13.Claudia Wharton, 14.Kaitlyn Winter, 15.Rebecca Yusuf, 16.Teagan Micah (gk)
Coach: Gary French
Manager: Mechalle Kimber
South Australia: 1.Evie O?Brien (gk), 2.Alison Atkins, 3.Gaby Bentley, 4.Brianna Bartlett, 5.Hannah Jenkin, 6.Imogen Pratt, 7.Emily Condon, 8.Jessica Waterhouse, 9.Elysha Magor, 10.Dylan Holmes, 11.Alexandra Chidiac, 12.Tessa Calabria, 13.Mariah Aplin, 14.Melanie Wilmot, 15.Tamae Ninos, 16.Sarah Chappel (gk)
Coach: Vito Basile
Manager: Amy Pascoe
ACT: 1.Georgina Worth (gk), 2.Freya Brent, 3.Emma Bestek, 4.Siena Senatore, 5.Phoebe Worth, 6.Julia De Angelis, 7.Madelyn Whittall, 8.Brigette Calabria, 9.Hayley Armstrong, 10.Caitlin Cantrill, 11.Mikaela Goldstein, 12.Ruth Kravis, 13.Melissa Leary, 14.Hiwot Johnstone, 15.Clea Porteous Borthwick, 16.Jessica Giovinazzo (gk)
Coach: Ray Junna
Manager: Colin Johnstone
Victoria Metropolitan: 1.Jaye Todd (gk), 2.Rachel Binning, 3.Zoe Stamatopoulos, 4.Marianna Anthony, 5.Emma Heckenberg, 6.Daniella Galluccio, 7.Cristina Cardaci, 8.Tamara Balmaceda, 9.Jaylan Martin, 10.Liana D?Amico, 11.Jaymee Dudley, 12.Daniela Gudelj, 13.Beatrice Goad, 14.Alicia Vakalopoulos, 15.Janna Fotakopoulos, 16.Jamie Brown (gk)
Coach: Andrew DePetro
Manager: Samara Jabs
Under 13 Girls – Group A – Match Schedule
Day One – Monday 5 April 2010

8.30am	Victoria Metropolitan	v	NSW Metropolitan 1
9.30am	South Australia	v	Northern NSW
10.30am	Queensland	v	ACT

1.30pm	NSW Metropolitan 1	v	ACT
2.30pm	Northern NSW	v	Queensland
3.30pm	South Australia	v	Victoria Metropolitan

Day Two – Tuesday 6 April 2010 

8.30am	South Australia	v	ACT
9.30am	Queensland	v	NSW Metropolitan 1
10.30am	Northern NSW	v	Victoria Metropolitan

1.30pm	NSW Metropolitan 1	v	South Australia
2.30pm	Victoria Metropolitan	v	Queensland
3.30pm	Northern NSW	v	ACT

Day Three ? Wednesday 7 April 2010 

8.30am	ACT	v	Victoria Metropolitan
9.30am	Queensland	v	South Australia
10.30am	NSW Metropolitan 1	v	Northern NSW

1.30pm

Winner Group A

v

Group A All Stars

Under 13 Girls – Group B – Squads
Western Australia: 1.Leniana Masibaka (gk), 2.Leah Fitzpatrick, 3.Steffi Nadilo, 4.Courtney Hall, 5.Pippa King, 6.Stephanie Simmonds, 7.Hope Shepherd, 8.Monique Godding, 9.Sarah Kenny, 10.Maddison Schofield, 11.Emily Henderson, 12.Emma Leaning, 13.Rachel Sands, 14.Melissa Shepherd, 15.Melis Yildirim, 16.Gabrielle Dal Busco (gk)
Coach: Jessine Bonzas
Manager: Erin Stinton
Tasmania: 1.Paige Spicer (gk), 2.Joanna Levis, 3.Paige Ayton, 4.Zoe Nichols, 5.Josie Painter, 6.Caitlin Stalker, 7.Isabella Gee, 8.Hannah Purton, 9.Rhianna Lulitanond, 10.Lucy MacGregor, 11.Ruby Banner, 12.Elizabeth Vandongen, 13.Gemma Terry, 14.Maeve Quealy, 15.Jordyn Rogers, 16.Maddison Sward (gk)
Coach: Sandra Chisholm
Manager: Jodie Terry
Northern Territory: 1.Kimberley Friend (gk), 2.Laura Vincent, 3.Emma Boeck, 4.Stephanie Spillett, 5.Dana Mcalear, 6.Mailey Grose, 7.Charlie Malady, 8.Poppy Waterford, 9.Tayla McKinnon, 10.Owenitta Raggett, 11.Caitlin Sawrey, 12.Marli Mathewson, 13.Phylsis Bara, 14.Treasure Dupuy, 15.Ajmer Cavalier, 16.Peta Harman (gk)
Coach: Michelle Friend
Manager: Tanya Ter Boyt
Victoria Country: 1.Amanda Kovacev (gk), 2.Jessica Kenyon, 3.Janna Lawson, 4.Lani Murdoch, 5.Siobhan Thompson, 6.Emily Livesey, 7.Amy McDonald, 8.Kayla Arkinstall, 9.Shania Cromb, 10.Breanna Hamilton, 11.Jessica Pitts, 12.Jade Feakes, 13.Isabella Salvo, 14.Isabella Jo Higgins, 15.Jaimee Williams, 16.Olivia Vincent (gk)
Coach: Dena Reddan
Manager: Heather Beever
NSW Country: 1.Dannielle Parkes (gk), 2.Lydia Nancarrow, 3.Sally Lynch, 4.Morgan Sherman, 5.Jessica Lush, 6.Heather Duffy, 7.Madison Parbery, 8.Eliza Roth, 9.Charlee McPherson, 10.Kalinda Wills, 11.Matilda – Lee Potter, 12.Jessica Berryman, 13.Samara Saavedra, 14.Annie Huggins, 15.Alexandra Scobie, 16.Sophie Humphris (gk)
Coach: Peter Page
Manager: Karen Roberts
NSW Metropolitan 2: 1.Zoe Stavropoulos (gk), 2.Alexandria Colosimo, 3.Madeleine Neville, 4.Lara Salvarinas, 5.Nicolette Kyriakou, 6.Eleanor Jones, 7.Stephanie Maiolo, 8.Hayley Evans, 9.Ruby Jackson, 10.Lucy Nolan, 11.Raecene McGregor, 12.Maxine Peak, 13.Bodeen Jackson, 14.Aiona Mila, 15.Jessica Jovanovski, 16.Greer Wilson (gk)
Coach: Ben Wright
Manager: Sally Paterson
Under 13 Girls – Group B – Match Schedule
Day One – Monday 5 April 2010 

8.45am	NSW Metro 2	v	Western Australia
9.45am	Victoria Country	v	Tasmania
10.45am	Northern Territory	v	NSW Country

1.45pm	Western Australia	v	NSW Country
2.45pm	Tasmania	v	Northern Territory
3.45pm	Victoria Country	v	NSW Metro 2

Day Two – Tuesday 6 April 2010 

8.45am	Victoria Country	v	NSW Country
9.45am	Northern Territory	v	Western Australia
10.45am	Tasmania	v	NSW Metro 2

          

1.45pm	Western Australia	v	Victoria Country
2.45pm	NSW Metro 2	v	Northern Territory
3.45pm	Tasmania	v	NSW Country

Day Three ? Wednesday 7 April 2010 

8.45am	NSW Country	v	NSW Metro 2
9.45am	Northern Territory	v	Victoria Country
10.45am	Western Australia	v	Tasmania

1.45pm

Winner Group B

v

Group B All Stars

Referees: Anna Wishart (ACT), Tiarna Kinnear (NNSW), Melinda Bell, Patterson Katie-Louise, Sarah Priestly, Surrey Hodges (NSW), Krystle Muller (Qld), Brenna Mackay, Pamela Zepeda Munoz (SA), Lauren Hargraves (Tas), Danielle Anderson, Laura Moya (Vic).

2010 FFA National Junior Championships for Boys
Under 13 Boys – Group A – Squads
NSW Metropolitan 1: 1.Chris Ferles (gk), 2.Daniel Alessi, 3.Nathan Bertolissio, 4.Milislav Popovic, 5.Lachlan Everett, 6.Alexander Gersbach, 7.Anthony Krkovski, 8.Liam Rose, 9.Matthew Leroy, 10.Martin Lo, 11.Christopher Zuvela, 12.Joshua Ortiz, 13.Bai Antoniou, 14.Daniel Tudden, 15.Lachlan Scott, 16.Jake Soutter (gk)
Coach: Paul Bentvelzen
Manager: John Mundt
Victoria Metropolitan: 1.Lucas Spinella (gk), 2.Nathan Muscat, 3.Ming-en Cui, 4.Jayden Anderson, 5.Jordan Moncrieff, 6.Anthony Duzel, 7.Joseph Monek, 8.Jesse Mills-warthold, 9.Ardian Vuniqi, 10.Mehdi  Sarwari, 11.Aron Handakas, 12.Ali Eyigun, 13.Zach Mousaco, 14.Oliver Paterno, 15.Damian Rastocic, 16.Lewis Shannon (gk)
Coach: Ivan Jolic
Manager: Mathieu Shellard
Queensland: 1.Bon Scott (gk), 2.Max Adey, 3.Dakota Askew, 4.Jack Campbell, 5.Zack Coulson, 6.James Enticknap, 7.Nixon Flanigan, 8.Scott Halliday, 9.Jack Levien, 10.Austin Ludwick, 11.Hayden McHenery, 12.Dale Motti, 13.Sebastian Raubenheimer, 14.Jesse Rigby, 15.David Thorpe, 16.Milan Egic (gk)
Coach: Dean Simpkins
Manager: Bill Park
South Australia: 1.Jackson O?Donnell (gk), 2.Karl Anglish, 3.Luke Quaglia, 4.Luke Childs, 5.Bradley Corbo, 6.Jesse Francesca, 7.Andrew Dwyer, 8.Harrison Falkenberg, 9.Samad Altundag, 10.Joseph Pipicella, 11.Gabriel Kolopelnyk, 12.Linus Johnston, 13.Jacob Scarpantoni, 14.Christos Krysti, 15.Jordan Elliott, 16.Hugh Taylor (gk)
Coach: David Martin
Manager: Brian Green
Western Australia: 1.Thomas Bayes (gk), 2.Ben Johns, 3.Luke Vittiglia, 4.Ross Millard, 5.David Molinari, 6.Callum Dobbs, 7.Damien Simic, 8.Brandon Wilson, 9.Ryan Williams, 10.Jordan Pokler, 11.Milan Ognjenovic, 12.Callum Simmonds, 13.Alex Tanevski, 14.Scott Robertson, 15.Syakir Shariff, 16.Joel Driscoll (gk)
Coach: Dave Butterfield
Manager: Darren Young
Northern NSW: 1.Daniel March (gk), 2.Kalu Williams, 3.Thomas Davies, 4.Joshua Murray, 5.Michael Williams, 6.Joshua Chock, 7.Jason Campbell, 8.Harry Atherton, 9.Jacob Tarasenko, 10.Nathan Burke, 11.Thomas Waller, 12.Hayden Hemson, 13.Cody Carroll, 14.Alex Infield, 15.Antonio Tassone, 16.Liam Spurway (gk)
Coach: Andre Gumprecht
Manager: Andy Lennon
Under 13 Boys – Group A – Match Schedule
Day One – 8 April 2010 

8.30am	Northern NSW	v	NSW Metropolitan 1
9.30am	South Australia	v	Victoria Metro
10.30am	Queensland	v	Western Australia

1:30pm	NSW Metropolitan 1	v	Western Australia
2:30pm	Victoria Metro	v	Queensland
3:30pm	South Australia	v	Northern NSW

Day Two ? 9 April 2010  

8.30am	South Australia	v	Western Australia
9.30am	Queensland	v	NSW Metropolitan 1
10.30am	Victoria Metro	v	Northern NSW

1:30pm	NSW Metropolitan 1	v	South Australia
2:30pm	Northern NSW	v	Queensland
3:30pm	Western Australia	v	Victoria Metro

Day Three ? 10 April 2010 

8.30am	Western Australia	v	Northern NSW
9.30am	Queensland	v	South Australia
10.30am	NSW Metropolitan 1	v	Victoria Metro

1.30pm

Winner Group A

v

Group A All-Stars

Under 13 Boys ? Group B – Squads
ACT: 1.Nathan Alferink (gk), 2.Amir Adam, 3.Anthony Giorgi, 4.Daniel Hearle, 5.Niko Kresic, 6.Jed Lloyd, 7.Sam McLachlan, 8.Adrian Macor, 9.Thomas Milicevic, 10.Thomas Nikolovski, 11.Brady Nixon, 12.Andre Saleh, 13.George Timotheou, 14.Marc Tokich, 15.Niko Ujdur, 16.Sam Brown (gk)
Coach: Ian Shaw
Manager: Alan Rumble
Tasmania: 1.Jackson Ellis (gk), 2 Ben Andrews, 3 Josh Freestone, 4 Jack Bilson, 5 Darcy Hall, 6 Isaac Kenyi, 7 Luke Eyles, 8 Dean Watkins, 9 Tyler Gavralas, 10 En Soo She, 11 Alex Walter, 12 Gus Rumney, 13 Michael Holden, 14 Lachlan Senior, 15 Mitchell Blake, 16 Luke Ottavi (gk)
Coach: Steve Payne
Manager: Rod Andrews
Northern Territory:  1.Dan Falco (gk), 2.Liam Rogers, 3.Tony McRoberts, 4.Michael Roussos, 5.Ayrton Innes, 6.John Dwyer, 7.Mieszko Zukowski, 8.Ewan Gerken, 9.Sean Kidd, 10.Jacob Andrade, 11.Dylan Murray, 12.Ryan Davis, 13.Kieran Tamaotai, 14.Dane Turner, 15.James Lelliott, 16.Andrew Hind (gk)
Coach: Kevin Burton
Manager: James Edwards
Victoria Country: 1.Isaac West (gk), 2.Hugh Gibson, 3.Thomas Fuller, 4.Ryley Pasquali, 5.Jordan Tartaglia, 6.Veejesh Moonipah, 7.George Voliotis, 8.Oskar Lundin, 9.Jake Francis, 10.Lochlann McGrath, 11.John Roberts, 12.Lachlan Beever, 13.Henri Scott, 14.Mitch Langbacher, 15.Joe Williams, 16.Liam Andersen (gk)
Coach: Peter Raeburn
Manager: Brendan Lazarus
NSW Country: 1.Sean Simpson (gk), 2.Dylan Perlowski, 3.Trent McDonnell, 4.Pierre Adriaenssens, 5.Samual Bellamy, 6.Jayden Barber, 7.Luke Tsantefskis, 8.Joshua Day, 9.Alexander Eggleston, 10.Tom Galvin, 11.Thomas Moffatt, 12.Rhyley Foenander, 13.Lachlan Thomas, 14.Zac Hawker, 15.Alexander Boardman, 16.Oliver Pain (gk)
Coach: Tim Wilson
Manager: Peter Andrews
NSW Metropolitan 2: 1.Nicholas Dimos (gk), 2.Adam Berry, 3.Cameron Belle, 4.Daniel Carreno, 5.Anthony Kalik, 6.Steve Kuzmanovski, 7.Matt Graham, 8.Christopher Kagaras, 9.Leonardo Malfara, 10.Noah Shaberman, 11.Matthew Moeller, 12.Matthew Stewart, 13.Connor O?Toole, 14.Lachlan Roberts, 15.Lachlan Wales, 16.Thomas Glover (gk)
Coach: Vince Coligiuri
Manager: Anthony Shewan
Under 13 Boys – Group B – Match Schedule 
Day One – Monday 5 April 2010 

8.45am	NSW Metropolitan 2	v	ACT
9.45am	Victoria Country	v	Tasmania
10.45am	Northern Territory	v	NSW Country

1:45pm	ACT	v	NSW Country
2:45pm	Tasmania	v	Northern Territory
3:45pm	Victoria Country	v	NSW Metropolitan 2

Day Two – Tuesday 6 April 2010 

8.45am	Victoria Country	v	NSW Country
9.45am	Northern Territory	v	ACT
10.45am	Tasmania	v	NSW Metropolitan 2

1:45pm	ACT	v	Victoria Country
2:45pm	NSW Metropolitan 2	v	Northern Territory
3:45pm	Tasmania	v	NSW Country

Day Three ? Wednesday 7 April 2010 

8.45am	NSW Country	v	NSW Metro 2
9.45am	Northern Territory	v	Victoria Country
10.45am	ACT	v	Tasmania

1.45pm

Winner Group B

v

Group B All Stars

Referees: Robert Albertson-Kill (ACT), Cory Byrne (NNSW), Grant South, James Meachan, Nick Brisbane (NSW), Joseph Lee (Qld), Daniel Faulkner, Eric Ford, Valentin Zarkhin (SA), Vincent Noutso, Wilson Brown (Vic), Matthew Southern (WA).