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Yahoo
02-06-2025
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Brighton's Dario Vidosic: ‘We want to challenge the establishment'
Dario Vidosic: 'I'm not too interested about being the best of the rest, I want to be the best of the best.' Dario Vidosic: 'I'm not too interested about being the best of the rest, I want to be the best of the best.' Photograph:After overseeing Brighton's highest Women's Super League finish, you could forgive Dario Vidosic for being in a celebratory mood. But that is not his style. 'I'm not too interested about being the best of the rest, I want to be the best of the best,' he says at the end of his first season in English football. 'That's going to be our mentality, that's what we're going to strive to achieve.' Brighton finished fifth, eclipsing everyone except the so-called 'big four'. Doing so has proved to be something of a curse in recent years; in 2021, Everton dropped to 10th the following season while in 2022, Tottenham were ninth a year later. After finishing fourth in 2024, Liverpool parted ways with their manager, Matt Beard, in February and dropped down to seventh. Advertisement Vidosic is keen to not only ensure no such drop-off is repeated by his side but that they keep pushing forward and challenge for silverware. 'We want to build, we don't want to be a one-off where we have a good season and then we fall. We've set that platform now. Related: Women's transfer window summer 2025: all deals from world's top six leagues 'We've not achieved anything yet. We have to be proud of what we've achieved. For me, 'd have loved to have done a bit more. 'At the start I said we want to win trophies and compete in all competitions. We're trying to win, we're trying to build towards that. We go out every game with the intention to play our football, to try to get the three points. Until it's mathematically impossible or until we get knocked out of a certain competition, that [winning] is always the goal. That's how we train, that's the mindset we try to instil. Advertisement 'We want to make real history for the club and bring a trophy. We weren't able to do that this year but that'll be the ambition again next season.' Brighton's home form has been key to their improvement. Only Liverpool and Manchester City managed to win there. Chelsea and Manchester United were held to draws, while Arsenal, now the European champions, were beaten 4-2 at the Broadfield Stadium last month. Under Vidosic, Brighton have developed a modern playing style: they were ranked fourth in the WSL for possession and had the fifth-highest number of touches in their opponents' penalty area. Only Arsenal had a greater shot-conversion percentage. 'As a player, I always loved to have the ball,' Vidosic says. 'When I didn't, I'd try to run off to press to win it back so it stems a little bit from my playing days. I always wanted to have the ball at my feet. It's the sort of football I think is enjoyable for the players. Advertisement 'It needs to be enjoyable, the way we play. It's something I want people to enjoy, to say: 'We like to watch your team play football, we want to sacrifice our weekends, we want to travel crazy hours to all parts of the country to watch you and we know we're going to watch a good game of football.' That's really important.' Vidosic deployed the same style in his first managerial job, coaching Melbourne City to the 2024 A-League Women title. That success caught Brighton's eye and their approach last summer took the Croatia-born former Australia and Adelaide United winger by surprise. 'It all happened very, very quickly over the course of three or four nights, and then after that was told they would like to offer me the job and then the visa process, that took some time. 'It's more true in this day and age – where you just never know who's watching. That's something I always say to my players – your life can change sometimes with one game. If you do the right thing, you work hard, it doesn't matter where in the world you are, that opportunity might come.' For the 38-year-old and his young family it was a big decision but one he is evidently glad he took. 'I was excited with the project and also wanting to test myself in what's regarded as the best league in the world,. I felt I was ready. I thank them very much for taking a risk on a young coach to give me an opportunity. 'It's an ambitious, supportive club, especially of the women's game. We want to challenge the establishment, we want to be right up there. We feel we can compete.'
Perth Now
05-05-2025
- Sport
- Perth Now
Vidosic's Albion stun Arsenal to achieve highest finish
Dario Vidosic is set to take Brighton and Hove Albion to their highest finish in the Women's Super League after ending the home campaign with a 4-2 win over a shell-shocked Arsenal side featuring Matildas Steph Catley and Caitlin Foord. Vidosic is in his debut season in England after leaving Melbourne City last July, and barring highly improbable last-day results will lead Albion to fifth place. The Gunners reached the Champions League final, where they will face holders Barcelona, nine days ago but have since conceded nine goals in two matches following a 5-2 midweek defeat by Aston Villa. While Renee Slegars tries to work out what is going on with her side, Vidosic is able to savour a fine campaign. Brighton will achieve a top-five finish unless they lose at Villa on Saturday, Liverpool win at champions Chelsea, and there is a 10-goal swing in goal difference. Albion gave their fans a memorable send-off at Broadfield Stadium, Crawley, with Fran Kirby firing in the opening goal after 16 minutes. Although Foord soon equalised, Jelena Cankovic struck either side of the break - her second after Arsenal were caught playing out from the back - to put the hosts firmly in control after 52 minutes. Kiko Seike added a fourth just two minutes later after a swift counter to keep Brighton fifth and on course for a best-ever season. Arsenal, who had created a stack of chances but finished poorly, finally scored a late consolation through Mariona Caldentey in stoppage time. with PA
BBC News
25-04-2025
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- BBC News
Brighton 'want to finish on a positive note'
Manager Dario Vidosic has challenged his Brighton side to produce a "complete" 90 minutes of football against Everton on Sunday as they aim to finish the season on a "positive note".Brighton have lost their past three WSL matches, conceding six first-half goals in the process, and have only won once in nine league outings in sitting just two points behind fifth-placed Liverpool with three matches remaining, they could still beat their previous best WSL finish of sixth and Vidosic is determined not to see their season "dwindle away". "We're all frustrated. We're still creating chances, we're still playing some good football, but moments are letting us down and it's about trying to be more complete for 90 minutes. We have to lift our intensity, especially in the first half," Vidosic said."It will be important from the start on Sunday that we're there, we're present, we're brave, and we want to play. It's a terrific opportunity for us to try and get back in the winner's column."We want to put on a good performance, fight for our supporters and ourselves and not dwindle away this season. There's still a lot of positives and we want to finish on as much of a positive note as we can."It doesn't feel like we're too far away from getting that win and celebrating again."
BBC News
21-03-2025
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- BBC News
Brighton are not paying attention to WSL table
Brighton manager Dario Vidosic says he is paying no attention to the Women's Super League table as the end of the season Seagulls find themselves fifth, 10 points behind fourth-placed Manchester whether there's a competition between Brighton and Liverpool, who are a point behind in sixth, to finish in that fifth spot, Vidosic said his only focus was on getting a maximum of 18 point from their six remaining games."We don't want to just feel that we're in a competition with Liverpool only. That sort of disrespects everything, and there are good teams around us," he said."We know we've still got a lot of tough games to go. There's no easy games until the end of the season. "Doesn't matter what the table says where you are, because anyone can beat anyone on the day if you're not prepared, if you're not ready."He added: "We're going out there to worry about the performance, worry about how we apply ourselves each day in training and just try to do the right things. When you do that, then you give yourself the best opportunity."Here are more key lines from his news conference before Sunday's trip to Leicester (kick-off at 15:30 GMT):Vicky Losada and Jelena Cankovic are close to making their returns, while Bex Rayner is back in trip to Leicester comes too soon for Bruna said Brighton took a lot of learnings from their League Cup meeting against Leicester, which they won on penalties, earlier in the said Leicester "can be very dangerous" and are likely to have more motivation after Crystal Palace's win last is "curious" to learn more about the new seven-a-side women's football series that was launched on Thursday, but he has not talked about it with the club.
BBC News
14-03-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Vidosic has 'learned a lot' from Brighton winless run
Brighton manager Dario Vidosic is not concerned despite his side's failure to win any of their last seven Women's Super League games.A strong start to the season means the Seagulls are still fifth in the table, but they have claimed just three of the last 21 points available with their last victory coming in November."You learn a lot about the squad and myself, about things we can do differently, on and off the pitch," Vidosic said before Brighton's WSL game against Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday."It's easy when you win, the sun seems brighter, but we need these periods to learn what needs fixing. Hopefully we'll come out a better team and myself a better coach."Brighton were unfortunate not to beat WSL leaders Chelsea earlier this month, with Lauren James scoring from an offside position to level the game at 2-2. Brighton also felt they should have been awarded a penalty when they led Vidosic would have liked video assistant referee (VAR) to have been in use that day, he sympathised with the officials."Everyone wants to be perfect, myself, every single player, and I guarantee the referees are the same. But we all make mistakes and that's part of the game. "It went against us against Chelsea but they were tough calls. It's easy once you see the replay, an official only has one set of eyes. I think eventually we'll see it [VAR] in the women's game."Here are the other key lines from Vidosic before Sunday's game at Brisbane Road (kick-off 15:00 GMT).Bruna Vilamala remains sidelined with a thigh injury but is "near" to Carabali's knee injury is not ACL-related so she should return a "couple of weeks" after on poor away form: "We didn't deal with tough trips and long trips after the winter break. We need to learn from that."On the form of Marisa Olislagers: "She's a highly technical player, very intelligent as well. I have to compliment her for when she wasn't in the squad, the way she trained and conducted herself."
