Dianella White Eagles
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Dianella White Eagles are an Australian football (soccer)
club from Perth, Western Australia
which was established by the local Serbian Australian
community. The team was formed under the name of Dianella Serbia in 1978. The club was renamed Dianella White Eagles later on as to reduce the ethnical tension between former Yugoslav
clubs, due to the outbreak of the Yugoslav War in the 1990s. In recent times, the club has seen a major influx of players and personnel who were refugees of the Yugoslav War, mainly from the Krajina
region in Croatia
, and from Republika Srpska
in Bosnia and Herzegovina
. The club's crest shows a football with the double headed eagle (the national emblem of Serbia) on a badge with the Serbian national colours, red, blue and white, in the background. The first team currently plays in the Western Australian State League first division.
Bobby Despotovski
, former Perth Glory player and Australian international of Serbian origin, has good links with the club, and a few years ago, his shop, Bobby 10 Football World, was the main sponsor of Dianella
.
2007 Under 14s Third Division Runners Up
1993 First Division Winners
1990 Second Division Runners Up
1983 Third Division Runners Up
2011 Milenko division 3 regional eating champion
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
club from Perth, Western Australia
Perth, Western Australia
Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia and the fourth most populous city in Australia. The Perth metropolitan area has an estimated population of almost 1,700,000....
which was established by the local Serbian Australian
Serbian Australian
Serbian Australians are citizens of Australia who are of Serbian ancestry. According to the 2006 census, there are 95,364 people in Australia who are of Serbian ancestry. Serbs have migrated to Australia in various waves during the 20th century...
community. The team was formed under the name of Dianella Serbia in 1978. The club was renamed Dianella White Eagles later on as to reduce the ethnical tension between former Yugoslav
Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
clubs, due to the outbreak of the Yugoslav War in the 1990s. In recent times, the club has seen a major influx of players and personnel who were refugees of the Yugoslav War, mainly from the Krajina
Krajina
-Etymology:In old-Croatian, this earliest geographical term appeared at least from 10th century within the Glagolitic inscriptions in Chakavian dialect, e.g. in Baška tablet about 1105, and also in some subsequent Glagolitic texts as krayna in the original medieval meaning of inlands or mainlands...
region in Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
, and from Republika Srpska
Republika Srpska
Republika Srpska is one of two main political entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina...
in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...
. The club's crest shows a football with the double headed eagle (the national emblem of Serbia) on a badge with the Serbian national colours, red, blue and white, in the background. The first team currently plays in the Western Australian State League first division.
Bobby Despotovski
Bobby Despotovski
Slobodan "Bobby" Despotovski is an Australian football player of Serbian origin.-Biography:Only nine months after his birth his family moved to Yugoslavia because his mother, Valentina, was home-sick...
, former Perth Glory player and Australian international of Serbian origin, has good links with the club, and a few years ago, his shop, Bobby 10 Football World, was the main sponsor of Dianella
Dianella
Dianella refers to*Dianella, a genus of flowering plants.It may also refer to*Dianella, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth....
.
Honours
2008 Under 10s Yellow North Winners2007 Under 14s Third Division Runners Up
1993 First Division Winners
1990 Second Division Runners Up
1983 Third Division Runners Up
2011 Milenko division 3 regional eating champion