The Australian Football Team Thread

Talk here about anything to do with Australia football.
We have a friendly against Uruguay on June 2nd at Sydney's Telstra Stadium.

23 man squad for the Uruguay match

Daniel Allsopp (Melbourne Victory, Australia),
Michael Beauchamp (Nuremberg, Germany),
Mark Bridge (Newcastle Jets, Australia),
Nick Carle (Newcastle Jets, Australia),
David Carney (Sydney FC, Australia),
Simon Colosimo (Sivasspor, Turkey),
Jason Culina (PSV Eindhoven, Holland),
Brett Emerton (Blackburn Rovers, England),
Adam Federici (Reading, England),
Ryan Griffiths (Liaoning, China),
Brett Holman (NEC Nijmegen, Holland),
Brad Jones (Middlesbrough, England),
Patrick Kisnorbo (Leicester City, England),
Scott McDonald (Motherwell, Scotland),
Lucas Neill (West Ham, England),
Jade North (Newcastle Jets, Australia),
Matthew Spiranovic (Nuremberg, Germany),
Shane Stefanutto (Lillestrom, Norway),
Mile Sterjovski (Basel, Switzerland),
Archie Thompson (Melbourne Victory, Australia),
Michael Thwaite (Wisla Krakow, Poland),
Carl Valeri (Grosseto, Italy),
Luke Wilkshire (FC Twente, Holland)

We are missing some big names including Schwarzer, Kewell, Viduka and Tim Cahill. The squad will be cut down to 20 on the day of the match.

Manager Graham Arnold earlier said that he is looking for young players for the future. (Asian Cup and 2010 WC)

“The experience these younger players will get will hold us in good stead as we head to the Asian Cup and beyond to the 2010 World Cup qualifiers which start next year.”

Please can you take HArry Kewell off our hands PERMENANTLY!

You don't like Mr Kewell?

He was fine at Leeds - just picking aup the massive pay-cheque at Anfield.

his biggest mistake was going to lpool from leeds.

Yeah, but aren't Leeds really bad now? Aren't they going to be relegated from the league after the premier-league? So why is it a mistake?

when he was at leeds he was brilliant. a few clubs were chasing him including man utd, arsenal and liverpool. he chose liverpool and the rest is history. As soon as he joined liverpool his career went downhill. i think he should have joined arsenal.

His career went downhill due to injuries, not joining Liverpool. We was brilliant last season but then he got injured again.

were brilliant. u sure you go to kind edwards grammar school?? anyways what was so brilliant about you last year?

he lost us the game last night !!

with his pusssy boi - falling on the floor he touched my ankle display!

which btw lead to the 2nd goal

ps. sh!te players usually join arsenal

Viduka set for Newcastle switch

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May 31, 2007 - 7:01PM
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Socceroo star Mark Viduka has reportedly agreed to join English Premier League club Newcastle United on a free transfer.

Viduka is currently out of contract at Middlesbrough, and had been fielding offers from several English and Italian clubs.

But British tabloid The Sun today claimed the Australian had settled on Boro's north-east rivals Newcastle.

Middlesbrough had been eager to retain Viduka after a stellar 2006-07 season, offering the 31-year-old striker a reported £40,000 pound ($96,250) per week two-year deal.

Portsmouth, West Ham, Manchester United and Italia's Genoa were other clubs that had expressed a strong interest in Australia's World Cup skipper.

Viduka would be the first major signing for incoming Newcastle manager Sam Allardyce.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/football...0205417620.html
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Is Newcastle United the right team for him to go to?

viduka will suit big sams phillosophy of direct football as he is a target man

Uruguay won 2-1 in the WC qualifier rematch. Alvaro Recoba kicked the winner in the 77th minute after debutant Brad Jones failed to handle a cross from Giocamazzi.
The socceroos opened their account early on with Mile Sterjovski kicking a goal in the 6th minute.

Diego Forlan equalled in the 40th minute in front of a crowd of 63,000 at Telstra Stadium.

Brad Jones , he's so awful. The amount of errors he's made for Boro i don't know how he even played.

Well he replaced Zjeilko Kalac so it doesnt take much to get into the Soccerwhos as a keeper

I mean he instead of we. If we that bad a season you would have realised the mistake, instead you thought it was a grammatical error shows you thought we were good but can't face to admit it.

Kalac retired from international soccer.

I know, but he was Jones predecessor and he was pretty crap TBH

Especially Kalac's blunder in the WC game against Croatia. I thought he cost us a chance at making the next round. Thank god for a man named Harry Kewell. I still to this day, do not know why Schwarzer was dropped by Hiddink. It was a terrible decision that nearly cost us dearly.

Whoah, hang on King Edwards? Please tell me it wasn't King Edwards School in Egbaston next to the university.

Sorry?

Was referring to a comment made earlier in the thread.

But yeah, Kalac is crap.

Probably Camp Hill

The Australia VS Argentina match has been postponed from this week to September 11th.



http://www.footballaustralia.com.au...wsitem&id=10686

Brad Jones is a joke ... I hadn't seen him play before, but now I know why Middlesborough don't play him. I'm sure some of the local A-League keapers could have done a better job. What a regulation miss that was, but I guess we are used to keeper stuff-ups recently. There are a few that come to mind - Schwartzer against Japan in WC and against Ghana in a friendly, Kalac against Croatia, and now this one.

Fortunately it was just a friendly and didn't matter too much. We were pretty impressive in the first half, but the second half didn't really go up a gear until Recoba scored. Anyways come Asian Cup next month, the team should have Dukes, Harry, Timmy, Vince, Bresciano and Schwartzer back.
Standout performances for us on Satruday night were Lucan Niel, Emerton and Sterjovski.

They called this game off a while ago, because Argentina and Aus couldn't get their best players together. Good to see they've rescheduled it. Hopefully we can get close to a full squad.

Genghis, were you born in Aus? Or did you migrate to Aus?

Nope the Aston one.

ah, that's a relief.

Whats so bad about Aston/Edgbaston?

I migrated to Oz from Saudi in 92.

Ahh ok. So do you consider yourself an Aussie?

Of course I do ...

Good man.

The Aussies defeated Singapore 3-0 in their friendly before the Asian Cup starts.

Viduka scored 2 goals, while Kewell scored the other. Singapore dominated the first half and were looking towards a massive upset. But the Aussies picked up the pace and ran away witht he match.

Australia's first match is against Oman Monday week.

Good stuff - lets hope he keeps scoring, Australia get knocked out early and then he he keeps scoring for us

So that's why you want us to get knocked out?

ofcourse, we want him playing for Newcastle asap - he cant do that if Australia progress beyond the group stages

He he. Shows that you blokes think he is a good player.

Which he is.....
He broke an international goal drought yesterday. He didn't even score a goal in last years World Cup.

Aussie's in the Premier league

Adrian Leijer (Fulham)
Neil Kilkenny (Birmingham)
Harry Kewell (Liverpool)
Lucas Neil (West Ham)
Mark Viduka,James Troisi,Craig Moore (Newcastle)
Mark Schwarzer,Brad Jones (Middlesbrough)
Tim Cahill (Everton)
Brett Emerton (Blackburn)
Josip Skoko,John Filan (Wigan)
Ahmad Elrich (Fulham)
Adam Federici and Oliver Bozanic (Reading)

Thats a fair few playing in the EPL. By the way, Craig Moore is playing for Queensland Roar this season.

What ever happened to Ahmed Elrich??? I always thought he was a good player, but ever since he went over to England, I don't think he's even played a single game in the Premier League.

Oh and to add to the Aussies playing in EPL list ... there's a possibility Bresciano might be going to Man City.