Name:

Sam Tripodi

Position at Club:

Team Manager / Trainer

Years at Club:

8

Job Description:

Prepare players for game – EG massage, strapping, medical problems. Also team manager duties include liaison with Soccer Australia, organise travel and Accommodation, and general team administration.

‘Day Job’:

Falcons in the morning, Clinical Masseur in the afternoon.

The best thing about working for Gippsland Falcons:

Working with elite athletes – get to meet some great people.

Proudest moment at club:

Any time we win a game it makes all the work worthwhile.

Funniest experience at club:

One night after a game in Melbourne, the team went to a restaurant – Claudio Canosa stood on the bar, microphone in hand, singing. The funniest thing you would ever see.