Asian clubs raid top A-League clubs for stars - reportAsian clubs are about to raid the cream of Australia's A-League, with strikers Joel Griffiths Joel Griffiths (born August 21, 1979) is an Australian football (soccer) player. A right sided attacking midfielder, he currently plays for Newcastle United Jets in his native Australia. and Archie Thompson Archibald Gerald "Archie" Thompson (born October 23, 1978 in Otorohanga, New Zealand) is an Australian football (soccer) player, currently playing for the Melbourne Victory in the Australian A-League, where he holds the all time scoring record for the competition. likely targets, reports said Saturday. Newcastle Jets' forward Griffiths, 29, looks certain to join his younger brother Wiki is aware of the following uses of "'Younger Brother":
The Jets, last season's A-League champions, are reportedly keen to have a clause written into the deal preventing Griffiths from playing against the Jets, who travel to China for their opening match at the Beijing Workers' Stadium on March 10. The Sydney Morning Herald said the Jets are also about to lose former Olympic team skipper Mark Milligan, who is believed to have finalised terms for a three-year deal with another Chinese side, Shanghai Shenhua, who will also play in the ACL See access control list. 1. ACL - Access Control List. 2. ACL - Association for Computational Linguistics. 3. ACL - A Coroutine Language. A Pascal-based implementation of coroutines. ["Coroutines", C.D. . Four others players have been linked to Asian clubs in the past week include Melbourne Victory's Thompson, teammate Roddy Vargas, Sydney FC utility Simon Colosimo and Adelaide United skipper Travis Dodd. Dodd was late last year scouted by Japanese champions Kashima Antlers and Colosimo has been linked to Shanghai Shenhua, the newspaper said. The Herald said the catalyst for the Asian interest in Australian players is the new 3 + 1 rule introduced for the ACL, which provides an incentive for each competing club to recruit at least one import from an Asian Football Confederation member country. Australian players are in great demand because they remain relatively cheap given the restraints of the A-League's salary cap, it said. The A-League, along with the Major League Soccer in the United States Soccer, which is known simply as football in most countries, has long been a popular sport in the United States. It is the most popular recreational sport for both boys and girls, and according to "History of Soccer: The Beautiful Game", has been so for about 25 years. , are believed to be the only competitions in world football to put a ceiling on player payments.
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