#140363 - Wed Nov 13 2002 12:20 PM
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Australian Soccer Team
It's just been announced in the UK that the Australian "Socceroo's"(Association Football Team) will be playing on English soil for the first time ever next February. Only ever having seen clips of them playing are they any good? Or can we look forward to beating the Aussies at something for once?
title change as the football game is on this week, finally
Edited by gtho4 (Mon Feb 10 2003 07:36 AM)
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#140365 - Wed Nov 13 2002 09:29 PM
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the Aussie team is not that bad - they got good strikers (playing with leeds right now) - but i will place my debts on Englands.
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#140366 - Wed Nov 13 2002 10:00 PM
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this is the best news oz football has had in zonks, and the FA are looking forward to extracting some "revenge" for the forthcoming Ashes loss, lol FA spokesman Paul Barber said the match would be a fantastic opportunity for fans of both countries, "not least because it follows on so soon after the Ashes series".
Fox Sports and then there's this tongue-in-cheek article in our local paper AUSTRALIAN sporting teams have inflicted more punishment and humiliation on England than William the Conqueror - now the Socceroos have the chance to join the party. The English are facing further embarrassment after it was confirmed last night they will host Australia in a historic international on February 12. Caning England at cricket and rugby league is one thing. Shaming them in soccer, a national passion as deeply cherished as the royal family, would be the final straw to English pride and confirm Australia as a nation worthy of a direct path to the 2006 World Cup in Germany. The countries have never met in England. The green and gold previously were deemed unworthy of treading the Wembley turf by the Football Association powerbrokers.
Daily Telegraph, Sydney
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#140367 - Thu Nov 14 2002 08:22 AM
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I'm really looking forward to it. By rights England ought to win as in all fairness they are a better football team, but in a one-off match you never know - that's the brilliance of football.
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#140370 - Thu Jan 30 2003 07:12 AM
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Australia have announced our squad for the game against England Leeds pair in Australia squad. Anybody know who Sven's picking for the England team? the match is on live downhere, 7am Sydney time
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#140371 - Thu Jan 30 2003 12:08 PM
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Arsene Wenger has asked Sven to think about what's best for Premiership players, when considering the England team. I guess most of the big names won't be there, but a few will.
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#140372 - Thu Jan 30 2003 12:44 PM
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Speaking as a keeper myself, I hope he gives Russel Hoult of West Brom a chance. I think the merchant(Seaman) has had his chips, and, unlike the past, there's not a great deal of choice.  Maybe Robert Green of Norwich City? wez  Surely Brad Friedel must be able to trace his ancestory back a fair old way. 
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#140373 - Thu Jan 30 2003 06:50 PM
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Agreed Wez.
England need to find another 'keeper other than Seaman. But, who have we got out there, is the thing we should be thinking. David James? Doubtful. Richard Wright? Maybe, but there must be more we can call upon, otherwise, English football, as a nation, will be struggling.
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#140376 - Sat Feb 08 2003 06:12 PM
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Looks like Wayne Rooney will be the youngest ever International when he plays in the 2nd half. For a country where soccer does not rate highly, it's all over the sport pages of the papers. It's on live downhere at 6am/7am Thursday on SBS. There's no site with all the squads, their full names, and their teams .. this should be correct, for this historic game:- England
Goalkeepers: David James (West Ham United), Paul Robinson (Leeds United), Richard Wright (Everton)
Defenders: Gary Neville (Manchester United, Andy Cole (Arsenal), Danny Mills (Leeds United), Paul Konchesky (Charlton Athletic), Rio Ferdinand (Manchester United), Sol Campbell (Arsenal), Ledley King (Tottenham Hotspur), Wes Brown (Manchester United), Matthew Upson (Birmingham City)
Midfielders: David Beckham (Manchester United), Paul Scholes (Manchester United), Frank Lampard (Chelsea), Owen Hargreaves (Bayern Munich), Kieron Dyer (Newcastle United), Jermaine Jenas (Newcastle United), Sean Davis (Fulham), Scott Parker (Charlton Athletic), Danny Murphy (Liverpool), Joe Cole (West Ham United)
Forwards: Michael Owen (Liverpool), Wayne Rooney (Everton), James Beattie (Southampton), Darius Vassell (Aston Villa), Francis Jeffers (Arsenal)
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Goalkeepers: Mark Schwarzer (Middlesbrough), Zeljko Kalac (Perugia)
Defenders: Stan Lazaridis (Birmingham City), Craig Moore (Rangers), Kevin Muscat (Rangers), Lucas Neill (Blackburn Rovers), Tony Popovic (Crystal Palace), Tony Vidmar (Middlesbrough)
Midfielders: Marco Bresciano (Parma), Scott Chipperfield (FC Basel), Brett Emerton (Feyenoord), Vince Grella (Empoli), Paul Okon (Leeds United), Josip Skoko (Racing Genk), Mile Sterjovski (Lille)
Strikers: John Aloisi (Athletico Osasuna), Harry Kewell (Leeds United), Mark Viduka (Leeds United)
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#140377 - Sun Feb 09 2003 03:39 AM
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It's nice to see Sven putting out a decent squad for the game, but I have a few concerns regarding it. Liverpool are hardly playing well at the moment, and Owen missed a few sitters yesterday, so I think his selection is somewhat based on the past.
Interesting to see that the goalkeepers are relatively new to the squad though, and Rooney! He just doesn't have enough first team experience at Everton, let alone for England!
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#140378 - Mon Feb 10 2003 07:35 AM
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Wednesday 12th February 2003the final score, in the biggest game in the history of soccer downunder, will be: England v Australia 2-3(Rooney, Beattie), (Brown o.g., Kewell, Aloisi) pediction by Dazzy_D:- England 6 (Owen 2, Murphy, Beattie, Beckham, Dyer) Australia 0 anybody else?
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#140379 - Mon Feb 10 2003 07:43 AM
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It's certainly a bit of an experimental squad. It's a bit of a shame that football doesn't really have an equivalent of the test match (ie. a game outside of an organised competition but which the two sides still take seriously).
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#140380 - Mon Feb 10 2003 08:04 AM
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an equivalent of the test match ... which the two sides still take seriously
I agree wholeheartedly with that sentiment.
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#140381 - Mon Feb 10 2003 08:21 AM
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Let's just hope that Owen won't be playing! Beattie deserves his chance, and it's good to see him in there. Scholes may not be fit for the game, but if he is, I can see him on the scoresheet.
I don't think Australia will win, but stranger things have happened.
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#140382 - Mon Feb 10 2003 03:13 PM
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I don't think Australia will win either - we haven't played as a team since November 2001, when we were kocked out of the World Cup qualifiers by Uruguay. We believe our team is capable of better things, as they're all full-time professionals, unlike the 1974 team that qualified for the World Cup Finals. The members of the '74 team were all part-timers (milkmen, carpenters, coal-miners and whatever), and had to play-off against every man and his dog to qualify (the Oceania confederation did not exist at that time) .. see this interview with Atti Abonyi, a member of that squad. In 1970 we were living in a flat in Kogarah (a suburb of Sydney), and he lived upstairs .. I never thought of getting his autograph. www.ozfootball.net/museum/index.html (click on Atti's name in the top left hand corner)
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#140383 - Mon Feb 10 2003 06:27 PM
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I'll say the same thing that I did for the Cricket Tests I hope the Aussie "Amateurs" have an exceptional game and put the England "Professionals" to the test. Prediction with Owen, & Heskey missing open goals from 6 yards for the past couple of months 1-0 in time added on (Seaman to score with a header)
Alas I shall be at a real Pantomime at the time the game is played and I think that might be more entertaining.(We'll have to listen on the radio)
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#140384 - Tue Feb 11 2003 05:33 AM
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Bookies snub SocceroosQuote:
Australia has as much chance of beating England as China has of toppling world champions Brazil, according to leading bookmakers. Australian bookmaker Sportingbet.com.au rates the Socceroos at 7-1 to cause an upset at Upton Park on Thursday morning, the same odds offered for a China victory over Brazil in Guangzhou. English bookmakers William Hill has offered even bigger odds of 8-1 for an Australian victory.
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Despite England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson's intention to field a team of youngsters for the second half of the match, the home side still commands odds of 10/7 by Sportingbet.com.au. England's Liverpool star Michael Owen is favourite to be the game's first scorer by William Hill at 9/2 with Socceroos forwards Mark Viduka, Harry Kewell and Paul Agostino at 10-1.
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#140385 - Tue Feb 11 2003 06:26 AM
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My prediction is that Mark Bosnich's ban will be revoked at the eleventh hour, and he'll be called on as a sub at the last minute in time to make a crucial save in a penalty shootout.
At least that's what would happen in the movies.
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#140387 - Wed Feb 12 2003 04:42 PM
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OK we surrender (well that's what the Senior team did - 0-2)
The kids put up a bit better showing 1-1) Overall The Aussies wanted to win more than the Brits. My heartiest congratulations to them for going out to win the game and succeeding. All those Aussie dreams come true!
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