Dianella White Eagles SC

Dianella White Eagles
Full name Dianella White Eagles Soccer Club
Nickname(s) Serbia, White Eagles,
Founded 1978
Ground Dianella Reserve
Ground Capacity 1,500
Chairman Aleksa Tesic
Manager Marc Wingell
League Football West State League Division One
2008 5th
Website Club home page

Dianella White Eagles SC is an Australian soccer club based in 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.

Honours

1993 First Division Winners

1990 Second Division Runners Up

1983 Third Division Runners Up

External links

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