Nerds FC
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Nerds FC is an Australian TV show featuring football (soccer). The show is important as it is a lead-in show for the 2006 FIFA World Cup on the Special Broadcasting Service network that is featuring coverage of the Australia national football (soccer) team.
The show follows a football team of 14 nerds who were trained over 3 months, climaxing with a match with professional A-League team Melbourne Victory (episode 8). Nerds FC was produced by SBS independent and Grundy Television.
Nerds FC's format is based on the Danish reality TV hit FC Zulu.
The show first aired on Australian TV on 14 April, 2006. The show had an encore season from 8 June, 2006.
Episodes
List of Nerds FC episodesTeam
The team was specifically selected to have little to no knowledge of football, and also little physical ability or aptitude for the game. To find such individuals ads with placed in local university newspapers and internet chat rooms seeking 18-25 year old men, Could you be described as an intelligent geek? Do you bore your friends with technical, scientific or obsessional details? Grundy Television wants you!The aim of the program was to build a team into a side able to play with reasonable ability against semi- or professional teams, give some nerds a physical challenge, and to make a TV program.
Unlike other reality television series, the team was meant to bond and produce a cohesive group that was capable of excellent results.
Their 'professional' outing was against a representative side in front of 25,000 people as a warm-up to a professional football match.
Team
| Name | Position | Nerd Interest(s) |
| Timothy Weston | Left Wing | a 'performer', collects Warhammer Fantasy models |
| Joseph Gentle | Right Wing | computing, especially Artificial Intelligence and gaming (World Of Warcraft) |
| John Truong | Right Wing | Space Mechatronics engineer, physicist and mathematician; astronomy; Dragonball Z |
| Jack Mackey | Centre Midfield | information, "principles of solipsism", chemistry |
| David Smith | Centre Midfield (Captain) | Computers; restoring veteran cars, notably a 1969 MG-B; preparing a Mitsubishi Lancer for car rallying. |
| Robin Chow ('Nature') | Left Back | computer gaming (WarCraft 3, Game Boy Advance, Diablo 2). |
| Nick Sifniotis | Left Back | Arcane branches of mathematics, ability to do arithmetic in base 17. Accounting. Composing music. |
| Marika Deku | Centre Back | Linguistics (ancient languages and their forms of writing), music (plays flute and piccolo) |
| Daniel Jones | Centre Back | Politics and Philosophy. Anti-VSU activist, reporter for Honi Soit |
| Phillip Massaad ('Mono') | Right Back | A bookworm, especially about historical ships. |
| Som Guan | Striker | computers (gaming), music (playing piano and guitar), theatre (performing), public speaking. Computer Systems Engineering student. |
| Phillip Lathourakis | Striker | ten pin bowling, playing the piano and GameCube |
| Tim Kirk ('Captain') | Striker | History, notably "the influence of nostalgia, historical kitsch, the theatre and pageantry of political expression and historical political satire and commentary"; Linguist; intern for 2004 Bush-Cheney campaign |
| Trent Apted | Goalkeeper | Computer Science PhD student, mainly involving "a toolkit for learning and adapting personalised gestures for ubiquitous computing interfaces." [Trent's academic home page] And, a collector of cow figurines. |
| Andy Harper | Coach | none disclosed (nor likely) |
| Milan Blagojevic | Assistant Coach | none disclosed (nor likely) |
Strip
The Nerds FC strip is Royal Blue with white piping at the sleeves and neck.Training Ground
The Nerds FC training ground is Wentworth playing grounds between Glebe and Pyrmont in Sydney, New South Wales.Song and Video
The third episode saw the Nerds FC team in the [301] recording studio to make its team song, led by professional vocal trainer Erana Clark of Australian Idol fame.The chorus of the song (and promotional video) is (in rhyme):
"We will enter history,
Failure to victory,
This team is proud to be
Nerds FC."
Watch the [Promotional Video].
Games
The first game played by Nerds FC was against the "Young Matildas", the Australia women's national football (soccer) team under 21s football team. The score was 11:0 to the Young Matildas.The fourth episode had the Nerds FC playing a game against a team of inmates in a prison.
- Episode 1: One of the Wiggles gives a "Go Nerds FC" cheer during the credits
- Episode 2: Anthony LaPaglia gives a "Go Nerds FC" cheer during the credits
- Episode 6: Blue Wiggle, Anthony, reveals his same-colour blue Nerds FC jumper underneath his Wiggles shirt and declares himself a fan.
External links
- [Nerds FC home page]
- [Nerds FC Team Page]
- [Trent Apted interview] 21 June 2006 - Computerworld.com.au
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