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NPL 2026

Monoethnic Social Club said:
Phenomenal.
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eh yes isn't it, semi pro land lives through the veins well - long may it continue !

I shouldn't but feck it for I luv the passion and Beretta will thumbs up this.
My son having opted out of NPL few years back as many do in their early/mid 20's just wanting to play for enjoyment but with many ex NPL decent players.
We knew many playing for this club and fits right in with our mixed blood.
The chanting like those SU kids at post games is epic for Prem 1 levels.
They are a strong club so a target on their backs every single game and the end war cries have so much feeling.......the mateship and playing for the shirt is massive.
Nice kits to might I add.
Beretta would know this very well,
The CSAA annual tournament today represents being the largest and oldest ethnic football tournament in Australia, having been hosted in every Australian state and territory except for the Northern Territory (it was also hosted by NZ member club Auckland Croatia).

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I cant see it happening.

Its already been determined that the whole thing likely depends on upgrades to the lighting at Lakeside stadium. Cant see the government playing ball here.
 
Beretta said:
u Edensor Park , u Edensor Park, sa one strane Sydneya navijamo , navijamo navijamo za Croaciju ale ale ale ale ale ale ale ale.

In Edensor Park, in Edensor Park, on the other side of Sydney, we cheer, we cheer, we cheer for Croatia, ale ale ale ale ale ale ale ale.


makes more sense sung in croatian.
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Isn’t Croatia called Hrvatska? Or is it “Croatia” as in “Sydney Croatia”?

Thanks for the transcription and translation though!
 
HonestSpursFan said:
Ah okay. Pretty cool that the Croatian language is still alive here even after their families have likely been here for four generations!
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HSF we all like to retain our elders native tongue even though most of us are Aussies.
Not too many yet at 4th gens but its coming they are very young.
Its your bloodline, your still brought up in similar ways, wog food diets etc even though we luv thai/viet/sushi and beluved bbq's.
My kids are third gen - I married a portugese, they get the language gist of 3 languages - this is day to day life of ethnics and luv it......
It will carry on because we embrace them about it and they will with their kids on just as our 6mth old granson/nipoto.
Jealousy is a curse saying 4th gens on, it will not die - skip I mean mate.
 
LFC said:
HSF we all like to retain our elders native tongue even though most of us are Aussies.
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I don’t know about that, it looks like European languages are dying pretty quickly. Some like Maltese are almost gone as first languages. I still speak French and Italian but my first language is English and the French I speak is New Caledonian, not the French of France.

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Italian is the most dying language in Australia by far, with 43,556 less people indicating that Italian was their first language in the 2021 census than they did in the 2016 census. Source: Profile.id, using data from the ABS.

LFC said:
Not too many yet at 4th gens but its coming they are very young.
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Not too many yet, but they’re still here. The kids being born today are quite likely fourth generation, which in a footballing sense means they can’t represent their ancestral homeland anymore unless they qualify another way under FIFA eligibility rules.

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FIFA allows for second and third generation immigrants to represent their ancestral countries of origin. Despite the rules initially using masculine pronouns, FIFA eligibility rules apply to every soccer player, futsal player, parasoccer player and beach soccer player in the worlds, male and female. Source: Wikipedia via FIFA.

LFC said:
Its your bloodline, your still brought up in similar ways, wog food diets etc even though we luv thai/viet/sushi and beluved bbq's.
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Of course, though culture, food and religion survive a lot longer than entire languages and dialects. Of course recipes and traditions change and Europe is becoming less Christian, so in some senses old recipes and traditions are more preserved in the diaspora (apparently some older Greek people in Melbourne and Sydney still speak a dialect of Greek not spoken in Greece anymore, while the Maltralian dialect of Maltese includes both borrowings from Aussie slang and old terms from Arabic and Italian that've been forgotten or superseded in Malta) while the diaspora are also still more religious. This is called a time freeze, because diaspora never truly forgot old traditions whilst never really learning new ones.

In saying that, the younger generations are unfortunately losing a lot of their languages due to intermarriage (this is completely fine by the way, and you can still pass on your culture and language through an intercultural marriage) and perceived practically. This is a pattern that’s starting to decrease now (as Asian languages are seemingly better preserved by their communities than European ones), but in the past CALD groups would lose their languages over time unless they were completely isolated (in the case of many Indigenous languages and the Cocos Malay language spoken on Home Island in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands).

LFC said:
My kids are third gen - I married a portugese, they get the language gist of 3 languages - this is day to day life of ethnics and luv it......
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Nice! Speaking multiple languages is an incredibly useful and valuable skill that shows a high degree of knowledge and understanding of foreign cultures and/or your own identity.
 
HonestSpursFan said:
I don’t know about that, it looks like European languages are dying pretty quickly. Some like Maltese are almost gone as first languages. I still speak French and Italian but my first language is English and the French I speak is New Caledonian, not the French of France.

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Italian is the most dying language in Australia by far, with 43,556 less people indicating that Italian was their first language in the 2021 census than they did in the 2016 census. Source: Profile.id, using data from the ABS.


Not too many yet, but they’re still here. The kids being born today are quite likely fourth generation, which in a footballing sense means they can’t represent their ancestral homeland anymore unless they qualify another way under FIFA eligibility rules.

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FIFA allows for second and third generation immigrants to represent their ancestral countries of origin. Despite the rules initially using masculine pronouns, FIFA eligibility rules apply to every soccer player, futsal player, parasoccer player and beach soccer player in the worlds, male and female. Source: Wikipedia via FIFA.


Of course, though culture, food and religion survive a lot longer than entire languages and dialects. Of course recipes and traditions change and Europe is becoming less Christian, so in some senses old recipes and traditions are more preserved in the diaspora (apparently some older Greek people in Melbourne and Sydney still speak a dialect of Greek not spoken in Greece anymore, while the Maltralian dialect of Maltese includes both borrowings from Aussie slang and old terms from Arabic and Italian that've been forgotten or superseded in Malta) while the diaspora are also still more religious. This is called a time freeze, because diaspora never truly forgot old traditions whilst never really learning new ones.

In saying that, the younger generations are unfortunately losing a lot of their languages due to intermarriage (this is completely fine by the way, and you can still pass on your culture and language through an intercultural marriage) and perceived practically. This is a pattern that’s starting to decrease now (as Asian languages are seemingly better preserved by their communities than European ones), but in the past CALD groups would lose their languages over time unless they were completely isolated (in the case of many Indigenous languages and the Cocos Malay language spoken on Home Island in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands).


Nice! Speaking multiple languages is an incredibly useful and valuable skill that shows a high degree of knowledge and understanding of foreign cultures and/or your own identity.
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Amigo
All the stats in world idgaf…..
I’m in our world - my kids the relos kids and then the kids ethnic friends are all in the world we’re in living the dream of our previous gen’s when first here to the 2nd on……
We keep in contact with the relos visit them and they come here.
Italians Greeks Portuguese were all Aussie and ethnic traditional as best as we can aussie ways.
It’s to be cherished and will live on long after I’m gone the rest is up to what we leave behind and I know they are very proud of our backgrounds and make sure their kids live it speak it best they can and enjoy the mixture of the genes.
Like retro in some ways it will live on.
Shame with your backgrounds your side haven’t kept up with it but your fams and relos choice.
Glad we will be one of the few who carry on the torch :)
 
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