The World Football Programme, on 107.9FM Radio Fremantle for Saturday August 10, 2024.

Peter Szkiela joins Penny Tanner Hoath this week in the studio, in a week where Australia is doing a sterling job at the Olympics, Olympic is doing a sterling job in the Australia Cup and Sorrento has put in an Olympic effort to win promotion back to the NPLM.

Our guest lineup this week, is

Ben Gilby, Creator, Impetus Womens Football website. Comments on NPLW trajectory, are we ready for a women’s Australia Cup, why the crowds at the Olympics don’t match the 2023 WWC, the Perth International Football Cup shifted to HBF Park (what’s happening to public interest or is it timing) and who the possible next Matildas coach could be.

Tom Doleman, match reporter for local WA football. Around the grounds wrap.

Abid Imam, Football West Community Engagement Lead. What’s happening in the Football West club changer space, fostering good club culture and changing attitudes and behaviours, club strategies to accommodate growth where grants and building new facilities don’t always keep up with the growth, what more can we do to keep growing and fostering players staying in our sport and resourcing the best pathway for everyone involved not just players.

Victor Guidicati, Sorrento FC Men’s First Team Manager. What has been the key to Sorrento’s return to the NPL this season and in the build-up to the season that have grown the numbers, support and resources to allow the club to succeed. How did the club benefit from a WWC year in 2023.