Episode #28 - Jean Kouriel, Ashfield Pirates FC President

06/26/20 • 64 min

Today we speak with Jean Kouriel, Founder and Club President of the Ashfield Pirates Football Club.

Jean has been involved in football for almost 40 years and has played for Marconi, Sydney United and Colo Colo. He represented Australia in Futsal and NSW in School Boys Football.

Jean, with the assistance of the late Adam Spencer-Carr, founded the Pirates in 2015. Within 5 short years, Ashfield has become one of the fastest growing football clubs within the CDSFA and in 2019, won the CDSFA Club Championship, the Crystal Cup.

Jean is now turning his attention to player development at Ashfield Pirates and securing a permanent home ground.

Today we speak with Jean Kouriel, Founder and Club President of the Ashfield Pirates Football Club.

Jean has been involved in football for almost 40 years and has played for Marconi, Sydney United and Colo Colo. He represented Australia in Futsal and NSW in School Boys Football.

Jean is now turning his attention to player development at Ashfield Pirates and securing a permanent home ground.

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Episode #27 - Darcy Byrne, Inner West Council Mayor & Former CDSFA Junior and Reps Player

In Episode 27 of the CDSFA Community Football Podcast, we speak with the Mayor of Inner West Council, Councillor Darcy Byrne. Darcy grew up in Balmain and is a life-long resident and footballer of the Inner West. He started his junior footballing journey with Balmain Police Boys Football Club and went onto to play with APIA Leichhardt Tigers, Canterbury Reps and Sydney Olympic in the National Youth League.

Darcy was first elected to Leichhardt Council in 2008, and served as Mayor from 2012-2014. He was re-elected to the position in September in 2015 and with the forced council amalgamations in May 2016 became the last Mayor of Leichhardt Council.
In 2017, Darcy was elected as the inaugural Mayor of Inner West Council.
Darcy’s goal is to make the Inner West the best local government in Australia and a national leader in environmental policy, arts and culture and community infrastructure.
Since being elected Mayor of Inner West Council, Darcy has been getting some outstanding results especially for community football including an upgrade of Waterfront Drive sporting fields in Callan Park and funding for the synthetic sports surface construction at Tempe Reserve and Leichhardt Oval No. 2.

Darcy is not only a passionate local mayor, he is also a very passionate community football advocate.

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Episode #29 - 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup is heading to Australia and NZ!

It's official — the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup is heading to Australia and New Zealand!

In what is one of the biggest boosts football and and women's sport in Australia has ever received, the world's attention will be turned down under for a month-long football festival. What does this mean for female football in the CDSFA over the coming years?

On the day of the big announcement, we caught up with CDSFA female football ambassadors and advocates Natasha Hill, Alexandra Georgopoulos and Angelica Georgopoulos.