Central Coast Mariners at full strength with Bulk Nutrients

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Central Coast Mariners are continuing a successful collaboration with Bulk Nutrients, in a two-year deal that has the Australian-owned company remain as the club’s official supplement provider.

The renewal ensures Mariners’ men’s and women’s teams have access to Bulk Nutrients’ products, assisting them in areas of development, performance, and recovery.

Bulk Nutrients are dedicated to promoting health and well-being for athletes at all levels, offering a wide-range of unique products.

Its existing relationship with the Central Coast Mariners has been fruitful, with the men’s team winning the 2022/23 A-League championship.

This success earned the club a spot in the AFC Cup, which saw the Mariners combine its current A-League campaign with six midweek games; including three trips to South-East Asia.

Their qualification to the next phase of the tournament magnifies the role that Bulk Nutrients is playing in the performance and recovery of the men’s side.

The deal is also significant to its women’s team, which after 14 years away, has returned to the national stage. Support from health and well-being companies like Bulk Nutrients are crucial to sustaining the club’s involvement in elite women’s football.

Mariners CEO Shaun Mielekamp is proud to be working with Bulk Nutrients, and believes their input is crucial to the club’s on-field fortunes.

“The Mariners take player health, recovery and performance incredibly seriously, so aligning with a team of experts who use world-class innovation to help our players perform their best, both on and off the field, is vital,” Mielekamp stated via press release.

“Last season, we demonstrated our full potential and achieved remarkable results by clinching the Isuzu UTE A-League championship, and we look forward to another exciting season ahead with the Bulk team to continue playing at our best.”

Bulk Nutrients Strategic Marketing Manager Nick Purdon echoed Mielekamp’s enthusiasm.

“We are very pleased to continue working with the Central Coast Mariners,” Purdon added via media release.

“The last 12 months has been an incredible journey for the club, and we are thrilled to continue our work in providing the most innovative and optimal products for players – promoting high performance, recovery and wellbeing.”

Mariners fans have been enjoying their team’s recent successes on the field, and through the renewal of the club’s deal with Bulk, they will have access to an online discount code for all Bulk Nutrients products.

Central Coast Mariners will be hoping that its continuing alliance with Bulk Nutrients will bring them further success at national and continental level.

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Victory unites with Roasting Warehouse in culture-led partnership

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The Melbourne-based anf family-owned business will join the Victory family, uniting two institutions which represent the city’s culture and identity.

A partnership with local roots

As the newest partner of Melbourne Victory, Roasting Warehouse joins forces with a vital part of the city’s sporting landscape.

The club’s Managing Director, Caroline Carnegie, outlined why the partnership bears so much value to both parties.

“We are excited to collaborate with Roasting Warehouse, a community-oriented destination for high-quality coffee, proud of its foundations in Melbourne,” said Carnegie via official media release.

“Football and coffee sit at the epicentre of Melbourne’s culture. The two go hand-in-hand, consistently at the centre of the conversation that stirs Melburnians, which is no different to the conversation sport and Melbourne Victory stir in the State.”

Indeed, this is a partnership which combines the identity, passions and culture of an entire city, therefore giving it the foundations required for long-term, mutual success.

Representing the best of Melbourne

Both Victory and Roasting Warehouse are hugely successful in their respective industries. They are institutions with community-oriented philosphies, who pride themselves on craft and quality.

“We’re incredibly proud to partner with Melbourne Victory, a club that represents the heart, passion, and ambition of Melbourne,” revealed Roasting Warehouse Head of Brand, Alexander Paraskevopoulos.

“As a Melbourne-founded, family-run business, supporting a team that means so much to the local community feels very natural for us.”

Furthermore, through their high-quality blends, Roasting Warehouse will look to prepare Victory’s players and staff for high performances on the pitch as the seasons nears completion.

But this is about far more than just fueling athletes.

This is a partnership which embodies and unites two of Melbourne’s greatest strengths and cultural markers – a connection forged from the city’s very own DNA.

 

For more information about Roasting Warehouse, click here.

Marie-Louise Eta makes history as new Union Berlin head coach

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In an historic appointment, Eta will take over as head coach of Union Berlin until the end of the season.

History in the making

Previously the first female assistant coach in Bundesliga history with Union Berlin, Eta will now take the reigns of the men’s first team on an interim basis.

Currently, the club sit in 11th place in the Bundesliga table, but with only two wins so far in 2026, relegation appears an all-too-real prospect, and one which the club is desperate to avoid.

“Given the points gap in the lower half of the table, our place in the Bundesliga is not yet secure,” said Eta via official media release.

‘I am delighted that the club has entrusted me with this challenging task. One of Union’s strengths has always been, and remains, the ability to pull together in such situations.”

Eta will begin as Union’s new head coach with immediate effect, and will be in the dugout for the club’s matchup against Wolfsburg this weekend.

 

A step into an equal future

Eta’s appointment signals a major step towards a more level playing field in the football landscape.

Furthermore, Eta joins other coaches including Sabrinna Wittmann, Hannah Dingley and Corinne Diacre who, in recent years, have blazed a trail for female coaches to step into the men’s game.

Wittmann currently manages FC Ingolstadt in Germany’s third division, and was the first female head coach in Germany’s top three divisions.

In 2023, Dingley became caretaker manager of Forest Green Rovers, and thus the first woman to lead a men’s professional team in England.

Diacre, now head coach of France’s women’s national team, managed Ligue 2’s Clerment Foot between 2014 and 2017.

 

Final thoughts

The impact therefore, is that Eta’s appointment will show future generations of aspiring female coaches that men’s football is an equally viable and possible pathway as the women’s game.

The time is now to level the playing field.

And while it may be a short-term role, its effect on attitudes towards equality and fair opportunities in the game will hopefully resonate long after the season ends.

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