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Subscriber only WESTERN Spirit is hoping to reach new heights when the Ipswich club makes its Brisbane Premier League (BPL) debut this weekend. As first-time head coach Reginald Yaqub finalised his squad for Saturday night s season opener at home, he was starting his higher level aims working from the back. Co-captain Jose Fernandez has been linking well in the pre-season with another experienced and tall defender in Tyler Thor Baker. I m looking for that height domination at the back, Yaqub said, preparing for Saturday s 6pm encounter against UQ at Kippen Park. After being vice-captain last year, centre back Fernandez is sharing this year s co-captaincy duties with attacking midfielder Stefan Vrbesic.
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Subscriber only WHEN Western Spirit s top team makes its Brisbane Premier League debut this weekend, opposing players will be forgiven for seeing double. Identical twins Gabriel and Anthony Menendez may play either side of co-captain Jose Fernandez and fellow centre back Tyler Thor Baker for Western Spirit this year. Spirit s season-opening game is against UQ at Kippen Park on Saturday night. Left back Anthony and right back Gabriel once considered different hairstyles to help people tell them apart. But having played all their football together and just graduated from business degrees, the skilful brothers enjoy sharing similar traits.
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Playing in six different countries and for at least 14 different clubs, the keeper has packed a lot into his wild and wonderful career, including coming close to selection for the Socceroos at one point.
Now 33 and based in Nashville, USA, Patterson-Sewell has no plans to hang his gloves just yet. Most recently on the books of Toronto FC, and then spending 2020 as a pool goalkeeper for Major League Soccer (MLS), he is on the hunt for a new club.
“I was going to go to Seattle Sounders last year and then COVID hit,” he told
The World Game. “It’s a kind of a weird way how it works over here but the league owns all the contracts of the players. They can kind of do as they please. So originally I had a couple of offers in the off-season heading into last year.