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John Norman Warren, MBE, OAM was an Australian soccer player, coach, administrator, writer and broadcaster.
Johnny Warren (1943–2004) was a captain, coach, commentator and champion of football in Australia.

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Australia’s “Mr Soccer”, John Warren was by far the most successful home grown product of the game.

He played 46 international matches and represented Australian in 22 different countries. He participated in three World Cup campaigns with the Socceroos in 1966, 1970, and in 1974 when Australian made its first World Cup final series in West Germany. He captained the team from 1967 to 1970.

Warren played First Division at the age of 15 with Canterbury, but he played most of his club football with St George, where he was captain for 12 seasons between 1963 and 1974 and played 297 matches, including eight grand finals, winning four. With Warren as playing coach, St George won the Sydney Championship in 1974.

When a serious knee injury forced his retirement, Warren was Australian’s most admired and internationally known player. A perfectionist, he decided to take up coaching; in 1972, at an international coaching school, conducted by the famous German Dettman Gramer under the auspices of FIFA, he finished dux.

He became founding coach of Canberra City in the

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Sheilas, Wogs & Poofters: An Incomplete Biography of Johnny Warren and Soccer in Australia

May 28, 2018

This is an outstanding book. It chronicles the life of one of Australia's best loved footballers, Johnny Warren. Skippy (as he was known affectionately) was not only a charismatic, attacking player, he became the voice of Australian football (aka soccer) and helped the code find its voice against the xenophobic, homophobic, racist positioning of the code by the commentators of competing codes, both forms of Rugby and Australian Rules. Hence the book's title.

Warren helped popularise football to Australia's kids. He often spoke of his dream - an Australia vs Brazil World Cup final. Since his untimely death from cancer, Australia has taken huge strides towards fulfilling that vision - but there is still a long way to go. If Skippy had lived longer,. however, he would have been thrilled by the progress the code has made.

The book is not only a wonderful history of Australian (and Sydney) football in the 50s, 60s and 70s, it's also and excellent pen picture of Sydney (espec

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Johnny Warren

John Norman Warren, MBE, OAM (17 May 1943 – 6 November 2004), nicknamed "Captain Socceroo", was an Australiansoccer player, coach, administrator and broadcaster, as well as a writer.

Early life

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Warren grew up in the suburb of Botany in Sydney. He had two older brothers: Geoff and Ross.

Soccer career

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Warren played for three different soccer clubs during his career (two in Australia and one in England), as well as for the Australian national team (nicknamed the "Socceroos") from 1965 until 1974, scoring seven goals. During his managing career, he managed two different clubs (both in Australia).

Personal life, illness and death

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In 1967, Warren married Marion Wilson, but they divorced in 1969. He later married Maryana, who was originally from Uruguay.^[1] In 1997, his first wife, Marion, went missing.

For a lot of his life, he smoked a lot. In 2003, he announced that he had lung cancer. A few months later he was awarded the FIFA Centennial Award of Merit by FIFA presi