2010 Fifa World Cup Teams
Australia
This year's tournament sees Australia in their 2nd successive World Cup finals following a decent campaign in the 2006 Germany World Cup.
In 2006 the Socceroos made it through to the 2nd round, already their best performance at the tournament, and were unfortunate not to go further. Their 2nd round match against Italy made it to injury time with the score 0-0 and Italy down to 10 men when a suspect penalty was given to Italy. The Italians scored the penalty in the 95th minute and the game was drawn to a close and the rest as they say is history (big clue: Italy won the 2006 World Cup).
Current coach Pim Verbeek took over the Australian squad at the start of the qualifying campaign for the 2010 World Cup and led them successfully through two group stages of qualification. In fact they only lost 2 matches out of a total 14 qualification games.
Australia go into this tournament with plenty of confidence and will certainly look to build on their 2006 performance and have an outside chance of getting out of their qualifying group behind Germany. [Latest Australia Squad News]
Coach
Pim Verbeek
2010 World Cup
Group D playing
Germany
Serbia
Ghana
Previous World Cups
Appearances: 2
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Latest Australia 2010 World Cup News
- Melbourne heartened, Adelaide extend lead
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:20:00 GMT
<p>Melbourne Heart secured their first-ever A-League victory today as Nick Kalmar's early strike sealed a 1-0 win over North Queensland Fury at AAMI Park.</p> - Mariners down Victory, climb third
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:40:00 GMT
<p>Goals from Rostyn Griffiths and Daniel McBreen earned Central Coast Mariners a 2-0 win at home to Melbourne Victory that lifted them third in the A-League.</p> - Djite excited by Aussie return
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:19:00 GMT
<p>Bruce Djite believes Gold Coast United coach Miron Bleiberg can help his career reach the next level after the striker left Genclerbirligi to return to Australia.</p> - Gold Coast sign Socceroo striker Djite
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:03:00 GMT
<p>Australian A-League club Gold Coast United have signed Socceroo striker Bruce Djite as a replacement for last season's leading goalscorer Shane Smeltz.</p> - Bertos: We want to emulate Australia
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:37:00 GMT
<p><strong>FIFA.com</strong> spoke to Leo Bertos about the impact of New Zealand?s success in South Africa and their hopes of qualifying for back-to-back FIFA World Cups, along with the progress of Wellington Phoenix.</p> - Ward joins Phoenix
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:12:00 GMT
<p>Nick Ward has ended his two-and-a-half year stint with Melbourne Victory after the 25-year-old joined Wellington Phoenix.</p>
