Bonnyrigg White Eagles
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| Full name | Bonnyrigg White Eagles Football Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Avala, The Reds | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 1968 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Bonnyrigg Sports Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Capacity | 10 000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman | ? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Dane Blanusa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | New South Wales Winter Super League | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006 | 2nd | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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[edit] Club History
Bonnyrigg White Eagles F.C. is a football club in Sydney currently playing in the New South Wales Winter Super League. Established by Serbian migrants from the Cabramatta area of south-west Sydney, their primary supporter base has been the local Serbian community. It's most famous product is former Socceroo Milan Blagojevic.
Established in 1968 the club was originally known as Avala Sports Club. In 1977 Avala was promoted to Division 1 and competed in the top level of New South Wales football until 1986.
After a two year absence from the First Division (and a 2nd Division title later) Avala returned to top flight action in 1989, undergoing a name change to Bonnyrigg White Eagles after the 1992 season, and remained in the Top Division until 2006.
[edit] Honours
Bonnyrigg's most notable achievements include;
- 1976 NSW State League 2nd Division Championship
- 1988 NSW State League 2nd Division Championship
- 1992 NSW State League Championship
- 1992 Karadjordje Cup
- 1993 Karadjordje Cup
- 1995 Karadjordje Cup
- 1998 NSW State League Championship
- 2000 Karadjordje Cup
- 2001 NSW State League Championship
- 2004 Johnny Warren Cup
- 2005 NSW Club Championship
[edit] Bonnyrigg White Eagles and the Socceroos
A number of former Socceroos have donned the jersey of Bonnyrigg White Eagles, these include;
- Milan Blagojevic
- Craig Foster
- Warren Spink
- Michael Gibson
- Marshall Soper
- Bobby Despotovski
- Anthony Henderson
- Gary Van Egmond
- Greg Woodhouse
- Robert Wheatley
- Rod Brown
[edit] Other Notable Players
- Gus Cerro
- Hugo Giminez
- Michael Baird
- Borislav Dragas
- Nemanja Obradovic
- Vuko Tomasevic
- Norman Tome
- Robert Gomez
- Glen Moss -(Current All Whites Goalkeeper)
- Dragan Pupovac
- Danny Vukovic -(Current Socceroo Squad Member)
- Radovan Filipovic
[edit] 2004/05 Controversy
The 2004/05 Season was marred by controversy when Serbian fans of Bonnyrigg and Croatian fans of neighbouring club Sydney United engaged in riots. At the height of tensions gunshots were fired at the Bonnyrigg Sports Club and a car was fire bombed at Sydney United's King Tomislav Croatian Club at Edensor Park. The result was that the Soccer NSW has directed that all future games between the clubs must be held at a neutral venue.
Bonnyrigg lost 3-1 to Bankstown City Lions in the 2004/05 NSW Premier League Grand Final.
Despite finishing Grand Finalists in 2004/2005 and claiming the Club Championship, Bonnyrigg were not offered a position in the 2005/06 NSW Premier League season. The club's appeal of this decision failed and they now compete in the Winter Super League.
[edit] Current Squad - 2006 NSW Winter Super League Season
Joe Bruni
Tamas Derszi
Dalibor Drča- Sasa Drča
- Sargoon Gevargis
- Zarko Glavas
- Grant Gulabovski
- Drazen Janjič
- Jason Kencevski
Claudio Oricchio- Nikola Pavič
- David Petrovič (Capt)
- Mark Sartoretto
- Dragan Savič
- Goran Subara
- Ivan Vojvodič
- Felix Wilson
- Nikola Zonjič
- Matthew Mayora
Daniel Pando-Cortez- Darko Goreski
