Sydney FC's Cove are stepping onto the pitch with their own football club.
The Cove could only sit and watch for so long. Standing, singing, dancing and jumping, they have been Sydney FC’s twelfth man since the commencement of the Hyundai A-League. Finally, they now get the chance to prove their talents on the pitch.
Lokomotiv Cove, Australia’s first – wait for it – official Hyundai A-League football club supporter group’s football club, has just been accepted into Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs Football Association to compete in next year’s competitions.
The formal establishment of the club has followed more than a year of regular kickabouts. Since last year they have met supporter groups of Queensland, Central Coast and Newcastle for social matches. In fact, they just recently played the social side of the Mariners’ own supporter group, the Marinators.
Do the Lokomotiv
The name Lokomotiv is a traditional Eastern European football club name. Its obscurity reflects the Cove’s light-hearted nature. “It came out when we went to play the Marinators on a train,” Lokomotiv Cove’s Shane Porter says. “When we got there we hadn’t thought of a name and they said ‘what do you call yourselves?’, and [Cove regular] Christian Thompson who was asked just said, ‘Lokomotiv Cove’ ‘cause we went up on the train.”
And so on 10 December 2005, Lokomotiv Cove was born. A side hand-picked from the many characters in the Cove notched an impressive 4-0 away win against the Central Coast fans. Since then the side has struggled to recapture that form against other support groups, but that hasn’t stopped the team attracting its own support group, the Terminus – the first official Hyundai A-League supporters’ club’s official football club’s supporter group.
Anyone for poker?
The creation of this new Lokomotiv club is an example of consolidation of the league’s supporter groups. Like-minded fans around the country have congregated on internet forums, and now get together socially in addition to match days. “There have been a few Cove poker nights,” says Porter. “The good thing about the forum is that we don’t have leaders. Everyone’s free to voice their opinion and if they can get 20 people to form a football team and put a team in somewhere else they’re quite welcome to do that.”
But what about the future of Lokomotiv Cove? Porter has big ambitions. “Our aim is to one day be a feeder club for Sydney FC and to maybe have a NSW Premier League team.”
Whatever the case, now they can eat all the pies, without any of the guilt.
Players Wanted
Lokomotiv Cove intend to enter at least five teams into different divisions next year. They are currently seeking sponsorship and players. For more information check out their website at www.lokomotivcove.com. And don’t worry – you don’t have to be part of the Cove to play.
Reproduced from TheFull90 – the official matchday magazine of the Hyundai A-League www.a-league.com.au Get it at the game!
Lokomotiv Cove, Australia’s first – wait for it – official Hyundai A-League football club supporter group’s football club, has just been accepted into Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs Football Association to compete in next year’s competitions.
The formal establishment of the club has followed more than a year of regular kickabouts. Since last year they have met supporter groups of Queensland, Central Coast and Newcastle for social matches. In fact, they just recently played the social side of the Mariners’ own supporter group, the Marinators.
Do the Lokomotiv
The name Lokomotiv is a traditional Eastern European football club name. Its obscurity reflects the Cove’s light-hearted nature. “It came out when we went to play the Marinators on a train,” Lokomotiv Cove’s Shane Porter says. “When we got there we hadn’t thought of a name and they said ‘what do you call yourselves?’, and [Cove regular] Christian Thompson who was asked just said, ‘Lokomotiv Cove’ ‘cause we went up on the train.”
And so on 10 December 2005, Lokomotiv Cove was born. A side hand-picked from the many characters in the Cove notched an impressive 4-0 away win against the Central Coast fans. Since then the side has struggled to recapture that form against other support groups, but that hasn’t stopped the team attracting its own support group, the Terminus – the first official Hyundai A-League supporters’ club’s official football club’s supporter group.
Anyone for poker?
The creation of this new Lokomotiv club is an example of consolidation of the league’s supporter groups. Like-minded fans around the country have congregated on internet forums, and now get together socially in addition to match days. “There have been a few Cove poker nights,” says Porter. “The good thing about the forum is that we don’t have leaders. Everyone’s free to voice their opinion and if they can get 20 people to form a football team and put a team in somewhere else they’re quite welcome to do that.”
But what about the future of Lokomotiv Cove? Porter has big ambitions. “Our aim is to one day be a feeder club for Sydney FC and to maybe have a NSW Premier League team.”
Whatever the case, now they can eat all the pies, without any of the guilt.
Players Wanted
Lokomotiv Cove intend to enter at least five teams into different divisions next year. They are currently seeking sponsorship and players. For more information check out their website at www.lokomotivcove.com. And don’t worry – you don’t have to be part of the Cove to play.
Reproduced from TheFull90 – the official matchday magazine of the Hyundai A-League www.a-league.com.au Get it at the game!
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