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Adelaide United Given Key To City
Lord Mayor Michael Harbison will on Saturday night present The Key to the City of Adelaide to the Adelaide United Football Club at Hindmarsh Stadium in recognition of their recent achievements in the Asian Football Confederation Champions League.
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Feb 5, 2009 6:44:47 AM
The presentation of the Key to the City of Adelaide enhanced Adelaide United’s
chances of hosting the Football Federation of Australia-sanctioned first leg of
the major A League semi-final against Melbourne Victory.
The Reds will be presented with the Key to the City of Adelaide on the pitch at 6:20pm shortly before the kick-off.
"Adelaide United FC has become an exemplary ambassador for the City of Adelaide with unclouded will to give something back to the community and is therefore a worthy recipient of this honour,” said the Lord Mayor.
“Since 2004 Adelaide United has promoted Adelaide and South Australia on the national stage, and increasingly on the world stage; and their players have become role models for young South Australians,” he said.
Adelaide United Chief Executive Mr Sam Ciccarello said he was delighted that the club would be presented with the Key to the City of Adelaide.
“This is truly a great moment for the club and we thank the City of Adelaide for honouring us in this way,” he said.
Adelaide United became the first Australian team to make it to the final of Asia's premier club competition. In the two legged final, they took on Japanese team Gamba Osaka. They lost 3-0 in the Osaka leg, and in the second match played before a capacity crowd at Hindmarsh Stadium, they were beaten 2-0.
Michael Dukakis, the former Governor of Massachusetts and the 1988 Democratic presidential nominee against eventual winner George H.W. Bush, was the first recipient of the Key to the City of Adelaide in 1991.
The most recent is trauma specialist Dr Bill Griggs AM, who was honoured in 2006 for his work involving the Asian tsunami.
Other recipients include His All Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama (1992); cyclist Stuart O’Grady (1999); tennis player Lleyton Hewitt (2001); Nobel Laureate John Coetzee (2004); and newspaper magnate Rupert Murdoch (2004)
The Reds will be presented with the Key to the City of Adelaide on the pitch at 6:20pm shortly before the kick-off.
"Adelaide United FC has become an exemplary ambassador for the City of Adelaide with unclouded will to give something back to the community and is therefore a worthy recipient of this honour,” said the Lord Mayor.
“Since 2004 Adelaide United has promoted Adelaide and South Australia on the national stage, and increasingly on the world stage; and their players have become role models for young South Australians,” he said.
Adelaide United Chief Executive Mr Sam Ciccarello said he was delighted that the club would be presented with the Key to the City of Adelaide.
“This is truly a great moment for the club and we thank the City of Adelaide for honouring us in this way,” he said.
Adelaide United became the first Australian team to make it to the final of Asia's premier club competition. In the two legged final, they took on Japanese team Gamba Osaka. They lost 3-0 in the Osaka leg, and in the second match played before a capacity crowd at Hindmarsh Stadium, they were beaten 2-0.
Michael Dukakis, the former Governor of Massachusetts and the 1988 Democratic presidential nominee against eventual winner George H.W. Bush, was the first recipient of the Key to the City of Adelaide in 1991.
The most recent is trauma specialist Dr Bill Griggs AM, who was honoured in 2006 for his work involving the Asian tsunami.
Other recipients include His All Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama (1992); cyclist Stuart O’Grady (1999); tennis player Lleyton Hewitt (2001); Nobel Laureate John Coetzee (2004); and newspaper magnate Rupert Murdoch (2004)
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