At this week’s media launch of EA’s perpetual FIFA football game franchise, FFT was given the opportunity to catch up with a few Sydney and Mariners players, including a Mr. Mark Bosnich (Mitchell Prentice cancelled - no big loss, I’m sure he only would have stayed for the first 10 minutes).
Craig Foster was MC-ing the event (who else?) and gave Bozza the introduction a man of his talent deserves. Foster even threw in the notion that he could still have some more Socceroos caps in the locker, an idea I hadn’t given much thought to previously. In Bozza’s introduction we hear about his dedication to life on the Central Coast and his work in the local community. “Bozza is even staying in a hotel on the Central Coast,” gushed a slightly overzealous Foster. When I’m staying in an area for an uncertain period of time, I tend to go for the hotel option too Craig. That aside it was great to catch-up an optimistic, healthy and happy Bozza in the flesh. He had all the sound bites you’d hope for, the standard A-League praise and a clear disinterest in computer games.
There is something about Bozza’s return which fills me with an excitement tantamount to the arrival of Dwight Yorke or Juninho. In fact, in a strange way, it surpasses the arrival of the aforementioned single season marquees. Bozza has played for Manchester United and Chelsea, he’s returning after a five year absence to play in our humble domestic set-up, and above everything – he’s Aussie. There is a lot to be proud of there.
So you can image my disappointment when casual as you like, Bozza announces that he’s chipping off to LA at the end of October to film a documentary. I guess that hotel gig wasn’t as permanent as you led us to believe hey Fossie! I nearly managed to miss the significance of his comments at first, perhaps dazed by the thought of how long Bozza has maintained that same haircut for, as he proceeded to tell the Bosnich hungry media that he could go into no details about the documentary due to a confidentially agreement. But I guess that’s just Bosnich. Did we really just expect him to provide no additional twists and turns? That would have been fairly boring anyway.
So hold off on that ‘90s Aston Villa goalie top from ebay and postpone that hair appointment for a “Bosnich cut” for the minute – we will have to wait and see what Bozza does long-term. At the moment even he’s not sure.
Craig Foster was MC-ing the event (who else?) and gave Bozza the introduction a man of his talent deserves. Foster even threw in the notion that he could still have some more Socceroos caps in the locker, an idea I hadn’t given much thought to previously. In Bozza’s introduction we hear about his dedication to life on the Central Coast and his work in the local community. “Bozza is even staying in a hotel on the Central Coast,” gushed a slightly overzealous Foster. When I’m staying in an area for an uncertain period of time, I tend to go for the hotel option too Craig. That aside it was great to catch-up an optimistic, healthy and happy Bozza in the flesh. He had all the sound bites you’d hope for, the standard A-League praise and a clear disinterest in computer games.
There is something about Bozza’s return which fills me with an excitement tantamount to the arrival of Dwight Yorke or Juninho. In fact, in a strange way, it surpasses the arrival of the aforementioned single season marquees. Bozza has played for Manchester United and Chelsea, he’s returning after a five year absence to play in our humble domestic set-up, and above everything – he’s Aussie. There is a lot to be proud of there.
So you can image my disappointment when casual as you like, Bozza announces that he’s chipping off to LA at the end of October to film a documentary. I guess that hotel gig wasn’t as permanent as you led us to believe hey Fossie! I nearly managed to miss the significance of his comments at first, perhaps dazed by the thought of how long Bozza has maintained that same haircut for, as he proceeded to tell the Bosnich hungry media that he could go into no details about the documentary due to a confidentially agreement. But I guess that’s just Bosnich. Did we really just expect him to provide no additional twists and turns? That would have been fairly boring anyway.
So hold off on that ‘90s Aston Villa goalie top from ebay and postpone that hair appointment for a “Bosnich cut” for the minute – we will have to wait and see what Bozza does long-term. At the moment even he’s not sure.
