A social history of Australian soccer (football) with Dr Bill Murray, La Trobe University

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Croatia really did receive the Victorian Amateur Soccer Football Association Division One North penant in 1959 and here is a young Mark Viduka (centre) and colleagues holding it. Left to right, Dinko Paleka, ?, Vera Paleka, Josip Bebic, Mark Viduka, Damien Vojtek, Vink Buljubasic. Photo: Roy Hay.

For the full story see The Croatia Story (forthcoming) or a briefer account in Roy Hay, ‘British Football, Wogball or the World Game? Towards a social history of Victorian Soccer’, in John O’Hara (ed.), Ethnicity and Soccer in Australia, ASSH Studies in Sports History Number 10, Australian Society for Sports History, Campelltown, 1994, pp. 44-79. Amended and updated 2005. © ASSH and SESA. British Football, Wogball or the World Game See page 11.