Kosta Cacace

Defensive Midfielder - Southern United
13 Oct 2030
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Marked for Kosta Cacace

217 Edition

The Southern United Herald

23 Sep 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match23 Sep 2030

Southern United sink to position 6

8 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market23 Sep 2030

Cameron Kirwan has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Southern United they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad23 Sep 2030

Tempers go at Southern United

Samukelo Mlaba was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

In brief

Back issues
140 Edition

The Southern United Herald

2 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom2 Apr 2029

Southern United spell it out for Owen Nelson

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Owen Nelson has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Boardroom2 Apr 2029

Crisis meeting at Southern United

The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.

Squad2 Apr 2029

Alex Sutton signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alex Sutton and Southern United agree another 3 years.

Squad2 Apr 2029

Samukelo Mlaba in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Southern United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom2 Apr 2029

$544.9K taken back off the Southern United table

What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.

Squad2 Apr 2029

James Lewis has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Southern United will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

121 Edition

The Southern United Herald

20 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match15 Nov 2028

The cup run ends for Southern United

1‑2 against Team Wellington, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Match18 Nov 2028

Cruel end for Hawke's Bay United as Southern United pounce

There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Southern United scored in the 97th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.

Match20 Nov 2028

Southern United sink to position 6

3 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Player ratings20 Nov 2028

Winston Tuiloma scores twice — 8.62

Two goals and a mark of 8.62 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings20 Nov 2028

No sign of nerves from Kosta Cacace at 17 — 7.97

The hardest thing about being 17 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Kosta Cacace did not need any: 7.97, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Player ratings20 Nov 2028

Age has not caught Oliver Stamatelopoulos yet — 8.41

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.41 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Match18 Nov 2028

No clean sheets in sight for Southern United

6 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

Player ratings20 Nov 2028

Nobody could get near Dane Stamatelopoulos

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match18 Nov 2028

Southern United get the job done against Hawke's Bay United

A 4‑3 win over Hawke's Bay United, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

In brief