Nerds FC

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Nerds FC
Nerds FC program logo
Genre	Reality
Starring	Series 1 Cast
Country of origin	Australia
No. of episodes	8
Production
Running time	25 minutes approx.
Broadcast
Original channel	SBS
Picture format	16:9
Original run	14 April 2006 –
Links
Official website
IMDb profile

Nerds FC is an Australian TV show featuring football (soccer). The first series of the show was aired as a lead-in for the 2006 FIFA World Cup on the Special Broadcasting Service network that featured coverage of the Australia national football (soccer) team.

The show follows a football team of 14 nerds who were trained over 3 months, climaxing with a match against a professional team. Nerds FC is produced by SBS independent and Grundy Television (which has now merged with Crackerjack to become FremantleMedia Australia).

Nerds FC's format is based on the Danish reality TV hit FC Zulu.

The first series aired on Australian TV on 14 April 2006, encored from 8 June 2006, and will encore again from 21 April 2007. ^[1] The DVD for the first series is due out on 6 June 2007. ^[2]

The air date for series two is 9 June 2007.^[1]

1 Episodes
2 Cast
3 Series 1
4 Series 2
5 See also
6 References and notes
7 External links

[edit] Episodes

List of Nerds FC episodes

[edit] Cast

The team was specifically selected to have little to no knowledge of football, and also little physical ability or aptitude for the game. To find such individuals, ads were placed in local university newspapers and internet chat rooms seeking 18-25 year old men, Could you be described as an intelligent geek? Do you bore your friends with technical, scientific or obsessional details? Grundy Television wants you!

The aim of the program is to build a group of nerds into a side, able to play with reasonable ability against (semi)professional teams, give some nerds a physical challenge, and to make a TV program.

Unlike other reality television series, the team was meant to bond and produce a cohesive group that was capable of excellent results. There is no 'voting off' or winner, the team participates as a whole.

[edit] Series 1

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Nerds FC

Nickname

Nerds 1

Association

Coach

Andy Harper

Most caps

Top scorer

Phillip Lathourakis (1)





Home colours





Away colours

First game
Loss 11:0

Largest win
None

Worst defeat
11:0

Sydney

[edit] Squad

Name	Position	Nerd Interest(s)
Timothy Weston	Left Wing	a 'performer', collects Warhammer Fantasy models
Joseph Gentle	Right Wing	computing, especially Artificial Intelligence and gaming (World of Warcraft)
John Truong	Right Wing	Space Mechatronics engineer, physicist and mathematician; astronomy; Dragonball Z
Jack Mackey	Centre Midfield	Knows 'Things', Solipsist, science
David Smith	Centre Midfield (Captain)	Computers; restoring classic cars, notably a 1969 MG-B; preparing a Mitsubishi Lancer for car rallying.
Robin Chow ('Nature')	Left Back	computer gaming (Warcraft III, Game Boy Advance, Diablo 2).
Nick Sifniotis	Left Back	Arcane branches of mathematics, ability to do arithmetic in base 17. Accounting. Composing music.
Marika Deku	Centre Back	Linguistics (ancient languages and their forms of writing), music (plays flute and piccolo)
Daniel Jones	Centre Back	Politics and Philosophy. Anti-VSU activist, reporter for Honi Soit
Phillip Massaad ('Mono')	Right Back	A bookworm, especially about historical ships.
Som Guan	Striker	computers (gaming), music (playing piano and guitar), theatre (performing), public speaking. Computer Systems Engineering student.
Phillip Lathourakis	Striker	ten pin bowling, playing the piano and GameCube
Tim Kirk ('Captain')	Striker	History, notably "the influence of nostalgia, historical kitsch, the theatre and pageantry of political expression and historical political satire and commentary"; Linguist; intern for 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign
Trent Apted	Goalkeeper	Computer Science PhD student, mainly involving "a toolkit for learning and adapting personalised gestures for ubiquitous computing interfaces." Trent's academic home page And, a collector of cow figurines.
Andy Harper	Coach	none disclosed (nor likely)
Milan Blagojevic	Assistant Coach	none disclosed (nor likely)

[edit] Strip

The Nerds FC strip is Royal Blue with white piping at the sleeves and neck.

[edit] Training Ground

The Nerds FC training ground is Wentworth playing grounds between Glebe and Pyrmont in Sydney, New South Wales.

[edit] Song and Video

The third episode saw the Nerds FC team in the 301 recording studio to make its team song, led by professional vocal trainer Erana Clark of Australian Idol fame.

The chorus of the song (and promotional video) is (in rhyme):

"We will enter history,
Failure to victory,
This team is proud to be
Nerds FC."

Watch the Promotional Video.

[edit] Podcast

A cut-down version of each episode, with comentary and extra information from some of the nerds is available on the Australian iTunes Music Store.

[edit] Games

The first game played by Nerds FC was against the "Young Matildas", the Australia women's national football (soccer) team under 21s football team. The score was 11:0 to the Young Matildas.

The fourth episode had the Nerds FC playing a game against a team of inmates in a prison.

The seventh episode featured a rematch against the Young Matildas.

The final 'professional' outing was against Melbourne Victory in front of 25,000 people as post-match entertainment for the 2006 A-League Semi Final between Adelaide United and Sydney FC.

[edit] Cameo appearances

Episode 1: One of the Wiggles gives a "Go Nerds FC" cheer during the credits
Episode 2: Anthony LaPaglia gives a "Go Nerds FC" cheer during the credits
Episode 6: Blue Wiggle, Anthony Field, reveals his same-colour blue Nerds FC jumper underneath his Wiggles shirt and declares himself a fan.