Season 39 Episode 7

The World Football Programme, on 107.9FM Radio Fremantle for Saturday March 15, 2025.

The World Football Team this week for season 39 are Penny Tanner Hoath and Peter Szkiela. We are the longest running soccer radio show in Australia!

The guest list for Saturday March 15 is:

David Templeman. The former State Sports Minister, now retired joins us to reflect on some of the challenges and successes during his tenure, some of his personal highlights connected to soccer specifically and what are the sport specific and common denominators he has seen and encountered that connect all sports e.g. aging facilities, terrific armies of volunteers, having to work with other sports to advance own agendas and so forth.

Tommy Doleman, local match reporter. Who won what in the various Night Series competitions. The women’s Final kicks off Friday between Perth SC and Balcatta Etna at the State Football Centre, a first team n how many years without the ever-present Perth Redstar FC making an appearance. Round one of the season proper is kicking off. Who has started the year looking strong across men’s and women’s competitions. What’s different about season 2025 to season 2024. Who’s moved up and who’s fighting to get back into the top leagues.

Ethan Rigg, Host of The Sports Desk on SYN in Melbourne and commentator for Series Futsal Victoria. You’ll guess from his strong accent that Ethan loves his English football so we dive into EPL (something about a new MU project) and how English football can afford such things, how Ange is travelling at Spurs and the 50+1 Bundesliga model in Germany, how it works and how successful it is.

Robbie Thomson, A-League and National Team match commentator for the Ten Network and Paramount Plus. World Cup qualifiers are around the corner for the Socceroos and Tony Popovic is in a must win situation. Did some of the recently trophied up Young Socceroos make a claim at senior level? Football Australia Cup, Australian Championship and other football news to get our head around. Perth Glory Men are at home against the Roar Saturday night at HBF Park. We officially have the highest number of goals scored against us in the league and the lowest goals for. The fans will be expecting something more from Socceroo Adam Taggart and the lads for this bottom of the table clash. Whilst the women played Friday night for a 3-3 draw against Central Coast. What’s changed for Glory- 6 goals in two games is impressive against teams well above us in the table.

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