Craig Foster
Ex-Socceroo Craig Foster is a football columnist with Fairfax Media and chief football analyst with SBS TV.
Football
Socceroos: Xenophobia rears its ugly head in coaching debate
Craig Foster There are three considerations regarding the Socceroos' coaching position. Quality, suitability and affordability. To that shortly, but first, a comment about the discussion to date.
Football
Review required to set things right
Craig Foster Holger Osieck qualified Australia for Brazil and that should be acknowledged. Coach terminations are never pleasant but are an inevitable part of the profession.
Football
Craig Foster's A-League season preview
Craig Foster Fairfax's football expert rates the chances of each A-League club.
Soccer
Job on the field done, now for off-field
Craig Foster We all know this season will be the highest quality soccer seen in this country.
Football
Clubs need to master rules of engagement with fans
Craig Foster We all know this season will offer the highest quality football seen in this country, so the main issue will be the off-field service.
Football
A-League season potentially best ever
Craig Foster I keep hearing about the grand final but, to football lovers, the term means a grand final few days until we kick off again for season nine, which will be the best we have seen in this country.
Football
Australia had chance to speak up but leaders were silent
Craig Foster Football has the global leadership it deserves and, as such, it is little use wailing if FIFA ultimately leaves Australia without compensation and having to watch the 2022 World Cup between trips to...
Football
Next Socceroos coach should have a broader role
Craig Foster If Holger Osieck is relieved of his Socceroos coaching duties as per growing media speculation, the opportunity would exist to make an appointment to take our game to the next level by combining...
Football
Looking past Brazil to focus on the long term
Craig Foster Brazil 2014 should not be about results but approach and development, preparing for the Asian Cup six months later and Russia 2018.
Soccer
Socceroos should play the long game in Brazil
Craig Foster Brazil 2014 should not be about results but approach and development.
Football
Warren the benchmark for taking game to the next level
Craig Foster Today, a perspective on a few different areas of the game.
Football
Panthers' bid for Wanderers demonstrates its potential
Craig Foster Even rugby league diehards would have to admit Penrith Panthers' attempt to acquire the Wanderers is a demonstration of how far the dynamics of the two sports have altered.
Football
Beautiful game comes top of the class in school system
Craig Foster Wherever a child attends school in Australia, chances are they'll be in a football environment, according to figures released this week by Football NSW.
Football
Nation's leaders are voting with their feet
Craig Foster Football is not a sport, it's a movement. Its central principles are equality, acceptance, diversity and multiculturalism, opportunity for all, gender balance and fair play.
Football
Arrange FFA furniture now for smooth transition of chairs
Craig Foster There are some very big decisions hurtling headlong towards the game's windscreen over the next year, including changes to the governance and independence of the FFA board, and Frank Lowy's exit.
Football
We control our game's destiny
Craig Foster In a single week, we had two extremes of the game to reconcile: the extraordinary response to visiting teams resulting in an amazing validation of the state of the game, and the Socceroos seemingly...
Football
Catching up with the world by taking giant steps in training
Craig Foster Irrespective of the level of the game, a coach walks into a changing room at half-time in a match in which their team is 1-0 down, playing ineffectively, in a big moment of the season or, even...
Football
Transfer deal: cashing in on touring clubs' tactics
Craig Foster Investments such as the A-League All Stars game against Manchester United should be leveraged to the maximum not only for their phenomenal promotional capacity, but also the technical growth of the...
All Stars concept set to shine
Craig Foster The coming All Stars match is not without its teething problems but will nonetheless prove a fantastic promotion for the game.
Football
Youth adapting to realities of the modern game
Craig Foster Another youth World Cup, another step on the national journey that provides as good a sign as any as to how we are progressing under the new national plan.
