Asia's premier club competition had been going almost four decades by the time Australia entered in 2007. Sydney FC knocked on the door of the party in the first season but the year after, Adelaide United kicked it down to announce the A-League's arrival to the continental sophisticates inside, a few of which were then tossed out onto the street by the powerful Aussies as they reached the final. "In the beginning we were unknown and they feared us," Sasa Ognenovski, a star of that team, said. "Adelaide ...

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