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A park built for Melbourne’s 1956 Olympics will become a sports hub to serve its community through to 2056 – one of dozens of projects supported in a major local sports infrastructure drive from the Victorian Government.
Olympic Park in Heidelberg has received $4.5 million to continue works to transform the park into a multi-faceted sport and recreation precinct.
The $110 million second round of the Victorian Community Sports Infrastructure Stimulus Program has backed 42 projects across the state, which are expected to create 600 local jobs.
Heidelberg United Football Club Secretary, John Lioupas, told Neos Kosmos that ‘the Minister for Community Sport Ros Spence confirmed that Olympic Park in Heidelberg had received $4.5 million to continue works to transform the park into a multi-faceted sport and recreation precinct’.
Catherine Ioannidis found her love for football when she hit her double digits.
The 19-year-old hasn’t looked back since and has been carrying on her father’s legacy of playing for Heidelberg United, but doing it even better.
“I think I might have started when I was ten and I played for a couple of different clubs. I played for Keilor Park before the NPL and Spring Hills and when I was around 14 I came to Heidelberg when the NPL started and since then I haven’t left. So I’ve remained very loyal to the club,” Ioannidis told
Cleo Taliadoros was always drawn to the little black and white sphere getting kicked around the green football pitch.
As a youngster she found herself on a team at the age of seven, before hanging up her boots only a year or so later, but hose boots kept calling her back.
The now soon to be 21 year old has now made her way to the NPLW in Victoria, playing her first proper season as a senior forward with Heidelberg United FC.
“I started playing at Brighton soccer club. I moved to South Melbourne before I moved to Heidelberg. I was at South Melbourne for four years and then I went to Bayside for a year and I only just started at Heidelberg. 2020 would’ve been my first season with them but we didn’t get to play for obvious reasons,” Taliadoros told
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20-year-old Stephanie Pantazopoulos is as fierce as she is determined.
The Heidelberg United striker has had quite the year recovering from a knee reconstruction, but has not backed away from playing her favourite sport.
“In relation to my knee there were time where I thought ‘stuff this, it’s too hard, I cant be bothered’ especially right at the beginning, even bending my knee. Looking back know, say after 13, 14 months, I’m so glad that I never gave up. If I was sitting back in January last year thinking ‘oh I’ll be playing in the NPL next year’ I would’ve laughed in my own face,” Pantazopoulos told