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Football Superstar
GenreReality
Developed by
Amy Taylor (season 1)
JudgesAnge Postecoglou
Steve O'Connor
Nik Hagicostas
Vitale Ferrante
Country of originAustralia
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes24
Original release
NetworkFox8
Release19 June 2008 (2008-06-19) –
22 July 2010 (2010-07-22)
Related
Cricket Superstar

Football Superstar is an Australian reality television series that aired on

football (soccer) star from male contestants aged 16 to 21. In its three seasons, the winners were Adam Hett, Luke Pilkington
and Liam McCormick.

Season One (2008)

The first series aired between 19 June 2008 and 7 August 2008, and had an initial first-season run of 8 episodes. The series was hosted by

A-League National Youth League. The team was coached by Steve O'Connor. Hett also won a one-year sports scholarship with Macquarie University
. The series was co-funded by Kellogg's Nutri-Grain and FOXTEL at the instigation of Mindshare Australia's Adam Ross.

Contestants

(Ages stated are at commencement of airing)

Eliminated

Finalists

Winner

  • Adam Hett, 17, Sydney, NSW

Season Two (2009)

In March 2009 a second series was announced.

Lee Furlong co-hosted with Brian McFadden
.

Trial days were held in all mainland state capitals beginning on 22 March in Perth and ending in Melbourne on 19 April. Intending trialists had to submit an audition form and a short video before being invited to attend the one-day trials.[2]

Ten players were selected on merit from each of the trials and invited to attend an intensive training camp in Melbourne over a weekend in late April.[2] Fifteen players from the weekend camp were then selected for an all expenses paid month long training camp under the supervision of Melbourne Victory staff as well as play competitive matches against local teams whilst living as a group in a house in Melbourne.[2]

As with the 2008 series the hopeful participants where culled from the groups at each level using both objective and subjective criteria.[2]

Contestants

(Ages stated are at commencement of airing)

Eliminated

  • Kynon Melling, 18,
    Perth, Western Australia
  • Michael Marchi, 20,
    Adelaide, South Australia
  • Thomas Renzi, 19,
    Mount Gambier, South Australia
  • Daniel Mitwali, 17, Sydney
  • John Lazaridis, 20, Melbourne
  • Tom Cullen, 16, Perth, Western Australia
  • Trent Wood, 19,
    Perth, Western Australia
  • Matthew Heath, 19, Brisbane, Queensland
  • Gilly Buckley, 20, Sydney
  • Sebastian Petralito, 20, Brisbane, Queensland
  • Steven Topalovic, 18, Melbourne
  • David McMurray, 19, Sydney

Finalists

Winner

Season Three (2010)

Foxtel confirmed a third season of the show during the Melbourne Victory vs Sydney FC game on 7 March 2010. The Major Prize was a contract with

Brisbane Roar
. Auditions started in late March. The show returned in June with Furlong co hosting with Kris Smith, a former rugby player, model and partner of
Brisbane Roar
contract was Liam McCormick.

Eliminated

(Ages stated are at commencement of airing)

Finalists

Winner

  • Liam McCormick, 18

See also

References

  1. ^ "About Football Superstar". Fox 8. March 2009. Archived from the original on 4 March 2009. Retrieved 8 March 2009.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Application Form" (PDF). Football Superstar 2009. Fox 8. March 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 March 2009. Retrieved 8 March 2009.
  3. ^ "Kris Smith to host Football Superstar". news.ninemsn.com.au. Archived from the original on 13 June 2010.
  4. ^ "Ange To Find Footy Superstar - Australian FourFourTwo - The Ultimate football Website". au.fourfourtwo.com. Archived from the original on 14 April 2010.

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