Melbourne Victory's Georg Niedermeier ready to follow in Matthieu Delpierre's footsteps

Usain Bolt is set to feature heavily in the Central Coast Mariners preseason friendly. Goals to Trent Buhagiar, Siem de Jong and Adam le Fondre have secured a 3-0 win in the FFA Cup for Sydney FC over their cross-town rivals. Goals from Ben Halloran and Jordan Elsey put an end to Bentleigh Greens' FFA Cup run. Without even having kicked a ball for the club, Melbourne Victory is already in the veins of Georg Niedermeier. The 32-year-old defender has played with Victory alumni Matthieu Delpierre, Mitchell Langerak, Robbie Kruse and Marco Rojas while at Stuttgart in Germany's Bundesliga. He and Delpierre, one of the greatest defenders that Victory or the A-League has seen, are particularly close, and the Frenchman's endorsement went a long way to convincing the German to head down under. "He came back and...

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