It’s obviously not very sporting to cheer at your opposition’s injuries, so in my most subdued voice, Uzbekistan’s main scoring threat Maxim Shatskikh will not be playing on Wednesday night.
The World Game reports that the Dynamo Kyiv striker will miss the crucial match due to sickness, and won’t even be on the plane for [...]

The Socceroos took one giant step closer to World Cup Qualification overnight, and they didn’t even have to play. With results in other matches going our way in Japan and Uzbekistan, the Green and Gold are left in an envious position where we only need four out of the remaining possible twelve points in order [...]

Bruce Djite has been drafted into the Socceroos squad amidst injury concerns heading into the World Cup Qualifier against Uzbekistan on April 1.
With barely a week to go till the game, reports coming from camp are that two un-named attackers have broken down with injuries, and Pim has therefore sent an SOS to the Genclerberligi [...]

Hello once again. I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned it in the past, but I’m currently studying my post grad in journalism, and since there’s not much happening on the Socceroos front, here’s an article I wrote recently after I had the chance to interview former Socceroo captain Alex Tobin (who just happened to play [...]

Welcome to the third part of my look at future Socceroos. This section is about midfielders and I’m glad to say that we’ve got a lot of healthy competition in this department.
Part One – Goalkeepers
Part Two – Defenders

Foxsports commentator Simon Hill coined the phrase “Pragmatic Pim Verbeek,” and that was exactly what the Australian coach delivered with the Socceroos’ battling 0-0 draw with Japan tonight.
Verbeek’s mission tonight was to come away with a point and consolidate our two point buffer over the hosts, and his troops did not fail to disappoint, repelling [...]

As mentioned in my last post, the Socceroos finished the year on a high, achieving their highest ever FIFA ranking of 28th. Throughout the year, the Socceroos played nine World Cup Qualifiers and four International friendlies, finishing with a record of eight wins, three draws, and two losses. With this in mind, I take a [...]

Congratulations to the Socceroos, who have jumped to their highest FIFA ranking ever with the release of the latest results on Wednesday night.

Pim Verbeek has named one of the strongest Socceroos squads we’ve had available in his tenure for the World Cup Qualifier against Bahrain, although it’s unclear whether certain key players will be fit. Nevertheless, here’s the complete group he’s called up in his initial squad list:
Goalkeepers:
Adam Federici (Reading)
Michael Petkovic (Sivasspor)
Mark Schwarzer (Fulham)
Defenders:
Chris Coyne (Colchester Utd, [...]

I should apologise for not covering the Qatar game. I was otherwise occupied, but I hope the result met with general approval. =)
Hopefully I can give you proper cover for the next game, but for the moment I’m just dropping in to give everyone the fact that we won 4-0 at home, that we’re topping [...]