Vietnam Football League historian, Stan Middleton and Alex Jesaulenko in Melbourne yesterday. Alex will deliver this year's Middleton Address after the ANZAC Friendship Match in Vung Tau.

Vietnam Football League historian, Stan Middleton and Alex Jesaulenko in Melbourne yesterday. Alex will deliver this year’s Middleton Address after the ANZAC Friendship Match in Vung Tau.

Yesterday in Melbourne, Official Historian of the Vietnam Football League which ran from 1967-71 in Southern Vietnam, Stan Middleton, met up with Alex Jesaulenko.

Alex will deliver this year’s 3rd Middleton Address during the McMillan Dinner which follows the ANZAC Friendship Match on 26 April 2014.

Stan writes that he “spent a very enjoyable hour with Alex. He is very excited about his trip to Vietnam and the footy game and doing the ‘Middleton Address’.

“I took an extra Swannies shirt over for him to wear and lent him my Swannies cap to wear as well!”

The 5th Annual ANZAC Friendship Match will be played on 26 April between the Vietnam Swans and Malaysian Warriors.

The McMillan Dinner, at which the Middleton Address will be delivered, will be held at the Imperial Hotel in Vung Tau which stands on the site of the former Peter Badcoe Club.

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