Will 2019 Endure Zebras' Year, Equally Was 1969?

 Photo:  Rothmans State Manager John O'Brien (right) presents cheques to Olympia captain Dick Girling (left), Croatia-Glenorchy Captain Joe Fiamengo (second from left) together with Juventus skipper Joe Hanna (second from right).  Olympia received $101 for finishing second, Croatia-Glenorchy $90 for 3rd place, together with Juventus $109 for start place.

This 2019 flavor volition live on the 50^th anniversary of Hobart Juventus winning their start league title.

In 1969, nether omnibus Karl Schwesinger together with captained past times the slow Joe Hanna, Juventus won the Southern Tasmanian title, equally good equally the State Championship with a 6-5 aggregate win over 2 legs against their sis club, Launceston Juventus.

Launceston Juventus won the start leg 4-2 at White City inwards Launceston, spell Hobart Juventus won the 2nd leg 4-1 at South Hobart, therefore claiming the Captain W. Cottrell-Dormer Cup, which was the trophy awarded to the State champions.

Hobart Juventus scored twice inwards the terminal 3 minutes to clinch the State title.

Johnny Genovesi headed dwelling solid Australian youth international Phil Owen’s cross to brand the aggregate marking level, spell the unfortunate Peter Mies turned a Remo Carnevale cross into his ain cyberspace to give the Southerners the State title.

Joe Hanna played an inspirational captain’s game despite a fractured wrist [take note, Tom Rogic], asset the defense together together with feeding his forwards with vivid passes.

It was the 13^th twelvemonth of Hobart Juventus’s beingness together with the Southern championship was clinched on the 13^th twenty-four hr stream of September with a 3-0 win over South Hobart, coached past times John Kirkpatrick, at Grove Road, the goals coming from Remo Carnevale, Joe Scaramuzza together with Domenic Rizzolo.

Two years later, Kirkpatrick would larn the maiden winner of the Rothmans Gold Medal for the best-and-fairest actor inwards Tasmania.

It was Joe Hanna’s start premiership together with Karl Schwesinger’s start twelvemonth equally Juventus coach.

The regular Hobart Juventus squad inwards 1969 was:  Jaegar, Howarth, Watson, Tria, Scaramuzza, Schwesinger, Hanna, Phil Owen, Genovesi, Rizzolo, Carnevale, Wood, Giusti, Richardson, Palermo, Cengia.

The Northern Juventus squad was:  Lockett, Wilson, Baird, de Paoli, Brown, Mies, Strickland, Schraeder, Whinnett, Visentin, Morosini, Streit, Van der Pols, Cook.

The Captain W. Cottrell-Dormer Cup was pose on display subsequently that calendar week at Hobart’s Fitzgerald’s shop because at that topographic point was then much public involvement inwards the State Final.

Also on display at Fitzgerald’s was the Grimwood Perpetual Trophy, awarded to the Southern champions, Juventus, together with the John Clemente Top Goal-Scorer’s Cup, won past times Juventus’s centre-forward, Domenic Rizzolo.

Dr Clemente, past times the way, was the president of Hobart Juventus together with was inwards his start twelvemonth inwards office.

Action photos from games throughout the flavor were likewise constituent of the display at the Hobart region store.

It was the start flavor that Republic of Croatia played nether their novel name, Croatia-Glenorchy.  Rudi Hancl was their president together with Frank Hesman their secretary.  Both gentlemen are notwithstanding about.

Alex Sarfalvy, the doyen of local coaches, was inwards accuse of Croatia-Glenorchy, spell the renowned Peter Cagialis coached Olympia.

Croatia-Glenorchy won the State-wide Ampol Cup that twelvemonth with 4-0 win against Hobart Juventus.

There was crowd problem at South Hobart that flavor during the Olympia versus Northern Suburbs Caledonians game, together with police line reinforcements had to live on called.

Referee Rodger Marlor claimed he has been kicked, struck together with spat upon past times spectators inwards a wild melee.

Things are then placidity these days together with it takes the tame antics of such wannabe coaches equally Gabriel Markaj to spark upwards some involvement alongside the full general populace.

Referees were paid $6 a game inwards the top-tier Cambridge League inwards the South, with linesmen earning $3 a game.  In the lower leagues, referees earned the princely amount of $4 a game.

1969 was likewise the twelvemonth that the North (6 teams) together with North-West (4 teams) got together together with formed the maiden Combined League.

Sixteen immature members of the Ulverstone club, solely 3 of whom were genuinely players, likewise embarked on a tour of The Netherlands together with the UK.

The Ulverstone guild had rigid links with Holland, of course, together with many Dutch migrants played for the club.

I shout out back many years subsequently watching the televised Olympic qualifier betwixt Commonwealth of Australia together with the Netherlands inwards Holland  -  yes, the game inwards which Ned Zelic scored that incredible goal from an impossible angle to give Commonwealth of Australia victory together with qualification together with which kick-started his career  -  and the cameras all of a abrupt zoomed inwards to a region of the crowd together with people were asset upwards a huge banner which read:  “Hello Ulverstone.”

So, there’s the challenge for you, David Smith together with Nick Di Giovanni.

Can Hobart Zebras (what an underwhelming mention compared to Juventus) celebrate a league championship on the 50^th anniversary of the club’s start such success?