Australia at World Cup 2006
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During the cold winter months of 1974 I watched Australia up against the might of world football live on a black and white TV at the St George Budapest Soccer Club in Mortdale Sydney. I fell in love with this greatest of world sporting tournaments and looked forward to seeing Australia's participation in future tournaments. I waited 32 years. Now they are there again and its bloody fantastic!
Contents at a Glance
Fan pics
The matches
- Next match: Australia vs Italy
- Tuesday 27 June, 1am (AEST). Australia in the big time - at last.
- Australia 2 - Croatia 2
- Into the round of 16 - unbelievable!
- Brazil 2 - Australia 0
- Australia did well, but didn't take the chances they created.
- AUSTRALIA 3-1 JAPAN
- Substitute Tim Cahill was the hero for Australia as the Socceroos scored three times in eight minutes to beat Japan 3-1 in Kaiserslautern and record their first ever win in the FIFA World Cup™ finals.
- Stage 2 Schedule
- See the complete Stage 2 matchups
Our magnificent squad
- Mark SCHWARZER
- Leaving him out of the Croatia game wasn't one of Hiddink's better ideas
- Lucas NEILL
- One of the real stars of this side and a local boy too (ie Manly, Sydney)
- Craig MOORE
- Kicked a beautiful penalty against Croatia
- Tim CAHILL
- The national hero from Bexley North primary
- Jason CULINA
- His dad says he was man of the match against Croatia!
- Tony POPOVIC
- Injured again, unfortunately
- Brett EMERTON
- Red carded against Croatia and will miss the Italy match. One of our best players inthis tournament.
- Josip SKOKO
- Midfielder currently playing with Wigan
- Mark VIDUKA
- Our captain - let's hope he goals against Italy - he deserves it.
- Harry KEWELL
- Fantastic.
- Stan LAZARIDIS
- Midfielder, Birmingham City. At 33, a stalwart with 59 international caps.
- Ante COVIC
- Goalkeeper
- Vince GRELLA
- Plays for Parma in Italy - may have some valuable insights to offer.
- Scott CHIPPERFIELD
- Magnificiant, very fast on the field able to participate in attack and defence.
- John ALOISI
- Goal scorer against Japan and had one disallowed against Croatia.
- Michael BEAUCHAMP
- One of the few A-based players - Central Coast Mariners
- Archie THOMPSON
- Forward
- Zeljko KALAC
- Unlikely to be the GK against Italy
- Joshua KENNEDY
- Tall, impressive player who made a big impact when he came on against Japan
- Luke WILKSHIRE
- Midfielder, Bristol City
- Mile STERJOVSKI
- Played well against Croatia
- Mark MILLIGAN
- Defender - Sydney FC
- Marco BRESCIANO
- Scored the goal to equalise against Uruguay.
Links
- Asia @ World Cup
- Coverage of the five asian teams in the World Cup: Japan, Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Australia
- Football Federation of Australia
- The official site of Australian football
- SBS World Game site
- Lots of stuff - including video highlights
- SMH World Cup site
- Blogs but no feeds :(
- The Betting Market
- World Cup Betting odds comparison plus form, news, live scores and free bets - 20 bookmakers compared for best prices.
- SBS Socceroos spotlight page
- Lots of stuff about the team
- SBS TV Schedule
- The TV program
- UK Sky News Cup site
- UK site
- MAKE YOUR OWN SOCCEROOS AD
- Have some fun!
- Stuff History
- Clever Nike marketing campaign
- World Cup Soccer Blog
- World Cup Blog is 34 blogs reporting daily on every detail of the world's greatest sporting event, the World Cup in Germany 2006.
FIFA feed for Australia
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World Cup Australia
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