The premise of Channel 7's new sci-fi series might not lie in the realms of fantasy after all. Last
night, watching the Australia v. Netherlands game, I had a vivid premonition of how Pim Verbeek's
side will approach games against superior (or even peer) opposition in South Africa next year.
Plenty of shuffling the ball across the back four.
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Thomond Park hosted Ireland and the Socceroos last night in a
game that Ireland should have taken in their stride. Cahill got the Aussies in front after 38 mins.
Giovanni Trapattoni had obviously given a good pre match speech because Ireland
did give it all they had , but with so many premiership players on the pitch it was definitely a
night of "Could have done better".
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Ronald Koeman debuts as AZ coach with a cup! AZ won the 14th edition of the Johan Cruyff Trophee in
the Amsterdam Arena, against cup winner Heerenveen. This is the first time AZ won the JC cup.
Koeman's team led 3-0 after 30 minutes of play, goals by Aussie Brett Holman,
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Another clean sheet, another couple of goals, in a dead rubber, no less! Pim Verbeek can afford a
little chortle of satisfaction.
And the Socceroo performance, on the whole, wasn't too bad. As in the Uzbekistan game at the same
venue, Australia were languid and short of ideas in the first half, but became more cohesive and
incisive as the game wore on.
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Socceroos win 2-0 with a comfortable victory over the ninety minutes.
David Carney scored, and the old faithful Mile Sterjovski popped one in.
We have maybe 50 plus players fighting to get on that plane, over the next twelve months, and
Australian players will be doing their utmost to get in the 23.
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Welsh...you're joking, Greek..me never, Scottish...not after last weeks results in the World
Cup.
Guess who is going to the World Cup in 2010..Australia...and suddenly Rhys Williams (Wales) Dean
Bouzanis (Greece) and Brad Inman (Scotland) Shane Lowry (Ireland) have all decided they are
AUSTRALIAN.
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No AIS creative player since Zelic!!!Aussie media have been whinging for months about the Socceroos style of play...and I'm from the
school that it's not all about the Coach.
If you don't have the tools it's hard to paint a picture.
But, until recently, our so-called best of the best came through the AIS, and therefore it's worth
noting who is our most creative player to come through such an organisation.
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First Half:
Australia defended well against the expected Uzbek onslaught. It never came, not early and it
wasn't until Australia had scored that the Uzbeks were able to get some sustained pressure and
corners.
The feared Uzbek's seemed to fear Australia and maybe they should.
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Socceroos drew 2-2 with South Africa (read FFA report below) and I'm expecting Mark Bosnich to be
announced as a Central Coast Mariners player today. Isn't that fantastic. A-League entertainment
factor about to go through the roof. Welcome back Bozza!
The Qantas Socceroos have drawn with South Africa 2-all in an enthralling match at Loftus Road
Stadium in London tonight.
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Big game tonight. Can Arnie's defence hold out? and perhaps more importantly can we
create....anything!
Australia earned a point, outplayed generally by Serbia in the opening game, but yet if the fastly
improving Billy Celeski had scored rather than unluckily hit the post we would surely have won.
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Tuggeranong United fans are heading to Sydney in big numbers for the Australia China game on the
weekend.
And they are expected to be rewarded by seeing Carl Valeri and his former Under 11 Tuggers
team-mate Nikolai Topor-Stanley in the starting line-up.
What the Armchair Aussies want, we get.
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Australia 3 Qatar 1
Australia marched into the next round of the World Cup thanks to the loud and passionate
"Armchair Aussies."
Pessimistic Pim played it safe last week against Iraq, got criticised by all the armchair fans back
home, and saw his team lose 1-0.
Tonight he played a few attackers and the Aussies romped home 3-1.
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The press is really starting to get on Verbeek's back after the loss to Iraq. In terms of results, the Dutch coach probably has a right to feel a bit bemused after only losing one game and conceding the first goal of his reign. In terms of recent performances, I don't think he has too [...]
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Euro 2008
Germany and Portugal looked good, maybe even too good. Portugal made turkeys of the Turks, playing some wonderful football as they hammered in two goals and bit the bar three times. The Germans didn't look aesthetically as good but they were typically efficient in deposing of Poland by the same scoreline.
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