Vic: Benefit soccer match honours slain policeman

AAP General News (Australia)
12-11-2005
Vic: Benefit soccer match honours slain policeman

The Victoria Police soccer team will take on a Socceroos legends side today .. to commemorate
the life of a police officer killed in the line of duty in April.

37-year-old Senior Constable TONY CLARKE was shot in the head with his own service
revolver by a man he'd pulled over on a lonely stretch of the Warburton Highway at Launching
Place .. east of Melbourne.

His killer later shot himself dead.

Today's fundraiser will be played at the Egan Lee Reserve in Knoxfield.

Senior Constable CLARKE'S wife TINA and two-year-old son CONNOR .. will be at the ground
.. where they'll be presented with a Liverpool Football Club guernsey .. signed by Australian
soccer star HARRY KEWELL.





The Socceroos team will be captained by ALAN DAVIDSON .. who played 77 matches for
Australia between 1980 and 1991.

Other players include former captain JIMMY ROONEY, GARY COLE, WARREN SPINK, MEMHET
DURAKOVIC, ERNIE TAPAI, EDDIE KRNCEVIC, JIMMY CAMPBELL and ANDREW MARTH.

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