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The Northern Division involved New South Wales and Queensland teams, the Australian Institute of Sport and Academy teams. In the final season, 2003–04, Canberra Deakin overcame South Melbourne by two goals to one, with Andrew Barisic and Nathan Caldwell on target for the winner and Steven O’Dor for South Melbourne. In its short existence Carlton won the NYL in 1999–2000, thanks to a goal by Daniel Debevc against Parramatta Power, which downed Whittlesea Stallions the following year. All three were on the scoresheet in the championship decider. Current Socceroo Josh Kennedy and former Melbourne Victory wing-back Daniel Vasilevski were in the Australian Institute of Sport team which defeated Adelaide City in 1999, while Matthew Kemp, also starring with the Victory this season, was in a winning AIS side in 1998. This happened to the 1999 grand final, which was eventually played at the Melbourne Knights ground, instead of before the South Melbourne versus Sydney United game at Olympic Park, much to the disappointment of both teams. On other occasions matches were switched or postponed to save the pitch for the NSL teams.
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In 1989–90 the NYL switched to a summer tournament, which often meant tough matches in the heat of the day as curtain raisers to senior games. John Campelj, Athan Zacharias and Marin Radobuljak scored in a three-two win over a powerful Marconi team for whom Geoff Gunning and Paul Okon netted. Sunshine George Cross reached the divisional play-off for four years in succession in the 1980s, losing the first three narrowly but then winning in 1989, the last year of the winter competition. Regional representative teams also took part, including Geelong City and Albury-Wodonga. In addition, the Victorian Institute of Sport and several Victorian State League clubs entered youth teams. Brunswick United Juventus, Heidelberg United, Footscray JUST, Green Gully, Morwell Falcons and Sunshine George Cross took part at various times. Sometimes Melbourne Knights and South Melbourne fielded a youth and a colts team in the competition and the younger group took great delight in occasionally knocking off their elder brothers. The Southern or Victorian division involved the youth teams of the National Soccer League clubs. One can forgive the hype, but this ignores the history of the game, for there was a flourishing National Youth League with Northern, Southern and sometimes South Australian divisions for more than 20 years. Football Federation Australia instituted a National Youth League in season 2008–09 season, claiming ‘this competition is particularly important because, for the first time, talented young players will have an opportunity to play regular, quality competitive games regardless of whether they are part of the AIS program, the State sports institutes or the State football leagues’.