Socceroos squad against China & Singapore
Socceroos international action continues this Saturday evening with a friendly against Singapore and the crucial world cup qualifying match against China four days later.
Pim Verbeek has named a mostly A-League & Olyroo squad for the first match against Singapore but that will most likely include Aussie super-star Harry Kewell.
Squads for the upcoming matches.
Nigel Boogard (Central Coast Mariners), Leigh Broxham (Melbourne Victory), Nathan Burns (Adelaide United), Billy Celeski (Melbourne Victory), Ante Covic (Newcastle Jets), Bruce Djite (Adelaide United), Tarek Elrich (Newcastle Jets), Adam Griffiths (Newcastle Jets), James Holland (Newcastle Jets), Mile Jedinak (Central Coast Mariners), Jade North (Newcastle Jets), Nikita Rukavytsya (Perth Glory), Archie Thompson (Melbourne Victory), Nikolai Topor-Stanley (Perth Glory), Tando Velaphi (Perth Glory), Ruben Zadkovich (TBC), Michael Zullo (Queensland Roar)
Socceroos squad against Singapore:
Saturday 22 March 2008, Kickoff at 10:00pm AEST - Live on Fox 3
Michael Beauchamp (Nuremburg, Germany), Mark Bresciano (Palermo, Italy), Jacob Burns (Unirea Valahorum, Romania), Tim Cahill (Everton, England), Nick Carle (Bristol City, England), David Carney (Sheffield United, England), Jason Culina (PSV Eindhoven, Netherlands), Brett Emerton (Blackburn, England), Adam Federici (Reading, England), Vincenzo Grella (Torino, Italy), Brett Holman (NEC Nijmegen, Netherlands), Josh Kennedy (Karlsruhe, Germany), Harry Kewell (Liverpool, England), Patrick Kisnorbo (Leicester City, England), Scott McDonald (Celtic, Scotland), Lucas Neill (West Ham, England), Mark Schwarzer (Middlesbrough, England), Mile Sterjovski (Derby County, England), James Troisi (Newcastle, England), Carl Valeri (Grosseto, Italy), Luke Wilkshire (Twente, Netherlands).
Socceroos squad against China:
Wednesday 25 March 2008, Kickoff at 5pm AEST - Live on Foxsports
Dean Kehagias
Published on March 19, 2008
didn’t verbeek say that training with a european side was better than playing A league football, then why has he not included richard porta in his squad now that his forward line has been depleted against china in the world cup qualifier.
He would be a great addition to the Socceroos World Cup Qualifying campaign but I think it might be too late. I heard that he had already been called up to the Uruguayan squad late last year against Sth Africa.
Whether he got a cap or not I am unsure.
Brings back memories of one hit wonder Max Vieri.