Also England are not eligible for the Olympics - its athletes represent Great Britain, which is ok for most sports including women’s football, but apparently not realistic for men’s. I think a lot of the qualifiers come from for example U21 tournaments and the nations are represented separately in men’s under age football.
Ebrahim Tahami was 31 but aged about 30 years tying his shoelace.
I know I’m many months late to the discussion, but I recently re-watched the game from start-to-finish. What you say about the Hore situation being misremembered is true. It’s hard to say how much it did affect the players, but Australia definitely dominated well after the intrusion.
Anyway, on the rewatch two of my favourite details were “The Salman Rushdie Fan Club” (You know, because of the fatwa.) and the massive Socceroos active group banner “Bay 23 Boys Sydney”. Watching the game on a crummy little 90s TV on poor quality image SBS as a 6-year-old Iranian kid from Sydney I never would’ve realised what the phrase “Bay 23 Sydney” would come to mean.
This was mentioned in a Bossi article on Ninko and the derby…
Meanwhile, international football tournaments are continuing to come to Australia with Sydney awarded the hosting rights to the 2022 Powerchair Football World Cup. The ten tournament will be played at Olympic Park in Sydney in October next year, featuring France, England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Denmark, Argentina, Uruguay, USA, Japan and Australia
“It will be a dream come true,” 2017 Powerchair player of the year, Abdullah Karim, said.
Are we just being awarded every OTHER world cup possible now, as some kind of karmic justice for Qatar?
Langerak retires. Shock move as with Ryan a backup now and Langerak in such good form hed have to have had a great chance of getting game time but can understand him wanting to put his family first.
The choice of three keepers is going to be interesting. I wonder if City will now be without Glover for the finals?
Vuka for reserve keeper even though he doesn’t have a club atm?
It seems to me like he weighed up the likelihood of international football being anywhere close to normal in the next 12 months or so, and decided that while he’s the undisputed top keeper for his club (and in the entire J.League), why bother risking that by having to fly long distances, possibly stay in quarantines, miss games and moments for the club.
At this point in time, you could possibly miss big chunks of club game time to fly all around the world and never get a minute on the park.
Lawrence Thomas will probably get a callup, think he’s done pretty well in Denmark.
If Lawrence Thomas is getting anywhere near the national team it’s time to fold the country.
Time for another Redders howler or two to avoid a call up.
GK is the one position that we’ve had a world class player for as long as I can remember. I guess those days are coming to an end.
As it stands we only have 3 GK’s (other than Langerak) playing first team football regularly overseas, Brad Jones (Saudi Arabia), Paul Izzo (Greek 2nd Div) & Lawrence Thomas (Danish 1st Div). That’s hardly an inspiring list.
As for Ryan there was a loose rumour floating about that Leno may leave Arsenal in the summer as a result of no European football and Arsenal needing to cut their wage bill. Whether that would result in them making Ryan’s move permanent who knows.
Hes been involved in how many camps etc. He doesn’t get picked and people go ‘Why?’ He could always be a popular guy in the squad etc
Its not a big deal to say thanks and inform people I’ve had a good time but I’m moving on.
I would assume so. He’s been training with Crawley so while he isn’t getting games at the moment at least he’s keeping sharp. I guess as a GK match fitness doesn’t come into play as much.
Federici, Young or Birighitti for the national team anyone?
Lawrence and Birra because of age really.
Don’t forget Bouzanis.
Probably a higher quality than the Greek 2nd division really.
The closest Dean Bouzanis is getting to a national team gig is watching Steph Catley play at the Olympics and WC.
Yes he’s playing regularly but it is in the conference. I might as well include the guys playing youth team football at that rate.