South Korea delivered a crushing blow to the Socceroos and took out the unofficial title of the best team in Asia with a deserved 3-1 victory in Seoul overnight. Having been on a magical run of quality results, including qualification for the World Cup followed by victories over Japan and Ireland, the Socceroos were brought [...]

Tim Cahill and Lucas Neill have been left out of Pim Verbeek’s latest Socceroos squad to face South Korea in next week’s friendly. While Cahill’s absence is purely due to injury, the omission of captain Neill is major cause for concern. Just a year away from the World Cup, the classy defender is still wandering [...]

The Socceroos put up a blistering display to shock Ireland 3-0 in Limerick overnight. Two goals by Timmy Cahill, backed up by a wonder striker from David Carney was enough to see off a spirited Irish challenge.
In their first match since attaining their highest FIFA ranking of sixteen, the Socceroos showed all the class and [...]

Socceroo spearhead Josh Kennedy is set to sign for Japanese side Nagoya Grampus. Having spent a frustrating decade in Germany bouncing between a handful of clubs, The World Game reports that Kennedy is looking to finish his overseas adventures in the land of the rising sun. His height obviously makes him standout in the J-League, [...]

For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, here is the video package in our official World Cup bid. The slogan for the bid is “Come Play!” and the video is a montage of a football being kicked through diverse regions of Australia. I personally think this concept has been done to death, and [...]

Timmy Cahill turned back the clock as he scored two second half goals to cancel out an early Japanese strike and gave the Socceroos a 2-1 win in Wednesday night’s World Cup Qualifier. Putting a week of misbehavior allegations behind him, the Everton player showed just why he is such a great commodity in modern [...]

The Socceroos provided a tame but sensible display to see off the challenge of Bahrain on Wednesday night. Goals in the second half to Mile Sterjovski and David Carney gave the 40,000 fans something to cheer about, amidst freezing conditions at Stadium Australia.
Pim started with a 4-2-3-1, with Mark Schwarzer in goals and acting captain [...]

We won. In freezing conditions. The stalls selling beanies and scarves were the ultimate winners of the night.
Sterjovski got the first and Carney got the second after a bicylce from Culina hit the bar. Overall a tame effort by the Socceroos. Even worse effort by the Bahrainis, surely someone must have told them it [...]

The Socceroos flew into Sydney airport today as heroes, and immediately began their preparations for Wednesday night’s match against Bahrain. Pim was quick to confirm that the Green and Gold will not be taking the last two matches lightly, and that he will field full teams barring injuries and suspensions.
It was music to the ears [...]

The Socceroos have created history by securing a spot in their second consecutive World Cup finals in South Africa 2010. A tough scoreless draw with Qatar gave us the one point we needed to make it mathematically impossible not to finish in the top two spots of the group. We are joined by South Korea [...]