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game in Los Angeles in January???

Posted By: Brian Bay
Date: Wednesday, 15 June 2005, at 7:50 p.m. US Eastern Time

A story in the July 15th Herald Sun

LA next stop for game
15 June 2005 Herald Sun
Damian Barrett

A MATCH scheduled to be played in Los Angeles early next year may become the second international game of the official 2006 pre-season competition.
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The Kangaroos are pushing to play the match, tentatively booked for January 22, against the Sydney Swans at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

LA-based businessman Alan Johnson, a former North Melbourne director, will underwrite part of the venture and will meet with Roos and AFL officials during the next week.

Johnson, who runs the Ramada Plaza Hotel in West Hollywood, wants the game to be a feature of next year's Australia Week festivities in Los Angeles.

It is understood Qantas is considering official involvement in the AFL match, with other private enterprises expected to cover most of the competing clubs' costs.

Essendon coach Kevin Sheedy was impressed with the UCLA facilities when he inspected them last year. The Swans would prefer to play Essendon in the match, but Johnson says a Kangaroos-Sydney Swans match is the best-fit for the LA market.

The Kangaroos will ask the AFL to give the game official pre-season competition status.

The AFL has already provisionally scheduled an official 2006 pre-season match in Dubai, between Collingwood and Adelaide.

It will not decide whether to raise the status of the Los Angeles game from exhibition to official until next month.

Some of the project's logistics, including costs associated with broadcasting it back to Australia and the January 22 scheduling, may prove difficult to overcome.

Next year's official pre-season competition will begin in late February.

AFL football projects officer Dean Moore inspected the UCLA facilities this year.

An exhibition AFL match will be played between West Coast and Fremantle at The Oval in London in October.

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 game in Los Angeles in January??? Brian Bay Wednesday, 15 June 2005, at 7:50 p.m. US Eastern Time
     Re: game in Los Angeles in January??? Web LinkRob de Santos Wednesday, 15 June 2005, at 11:17 p.m. US Eastern Time
     Re: game in Los Angeles in January??? Web LinkRW "KC Swan" Lipp Wednesday, 20 July 2005, at 6:56 p.m. US Eastern Time
           Re: game in Los Angeles in January??? Web LinkRob de Santos Thursday, 21 July 2005, at 9:01 a.m. US Eastern Time
                 Re: game in Los Angeles in January???RW "KC Swan" Lipp Thursday, 21 July 2005, at 7:11 p.m. US Eastern Time
                       Re: game in Los Angeles in January??? Web LinkRob de Santos Thursday, 21 July 2005, at 9:19 p.m. US Eastern Time
                             Re: game in Los Angeles in January??? Web LinkRob de Santos Friday, 22 July 2005, at 12:37 p.m. US Eastern Time
                                   Re: game in Los Angeles in January???RW "KC Swan" Lipp Monday, 1 August 2005, at 1:13 a.m. US Eastern Time
                                         Re: game in Los Angeles in January??? Web LinkRob de Santos Tuesday, 2 August 2005, at 11:26 a.m. US Eastern Time
                                               Re: game in Los Angeles in January???RW "KC Swan" Lipp Tuesday, 2 August 2005, at 10:58 p.m. US Eastern Time
                                                     Re: game in Los Angeles in January???Bob Wednesday, 3 August 2005, at 8:33 a.m. US Eastern Time
                                                           Re: game in Los Angeles in January???RW "KC Swan" Lipp Saturday, 6 August 2005, at 1:50 a.m. US Eastern Time
                                                                 Re: game in Los Angeles in January???Bob Sunday, 7 August 2005, at 5:23 p.m. US Eastern Time
                                                                       Re: game in Los Angeles in January??? Web LinkRob de Santos Wednesday, 31 August 2005, at 10:49 p.m. US Eastern Time
                                                                             Re: game in Los Angeles in January??? Web LinkPaat Kelly Thursday, 1 September 2005, at 2:45 a.m. US Eastern Time
                                                                                   Re: game in Los Angeles in January??? Web LinkRob de Santos Thursday, 1 September 2005, at 12:46 p.m. US Eastern Time
                                                     Re: game in Los Angeles in January??? Web LinkRob de Santos Wednesday, 3 August 2005, at 8:43 a.m. US Eastern Time
                                                           Re: game in Los Angeles in January???RW "KC Swan" Lipp Saturday, 6 August 2005, at 1:35 a.m. US Eastern Time
                                                                 Re: game in Los Angeles in January??? Web LinkRob de Santos Saturday, 6 August 2005, at 1:55 a.m. US Eastern Time
                             Re: game in Los Angeles in January??? Web LinkPaat Kelly Friday, 19 August 2005, at 2:31 p.m. US Eastern Time
                                   Re: game in Los Angeles in January??? Web LinkRob de Santos Friday, 19 August 2005, at 3:08 p.m. US Eastern Time
     Re: game in Los Angeles in January??? Web LinkRW "KC Swan" Lipp Friday, 19 August 2005, at 9:37 a.m. US Eastern Time
           Re: game in Los Angeles in January??? Web LinkRW "KC Swan" Lipp Friday, 19 August 2005, at 9:44 a.m. US Eastern Time
                 Re: game in Los Angeles in January??? Web LinkRob de Santos Friday, 19 August 2005, at 12:15 p.m. US Eastern Time
                 California info, attn: KC SwanBrian Bay Friday, 19 August 2005, at 7:17 p.m. US Eastern Time

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