Australia commenced their World Cup qualification campaign with a comfortable 3-0 win over Kuwait on Tuesday.
Aaron Mooy put an emphatic punctuation mark on Mathew Leckie’s first-half brace to give the Socceroos the ideal start on the road to Qatar 2022.
Positives
With the opponent and sweltering conditions in Kuwait City taken into consideration, it was an unspectacular but ultimately satisfactory performance from the Socceroos. As a starting point in this qualification phase and whatever the scenario,…
Socceroos Aziz Behich says the Australian squad are ready for an exciting journey towards World Cup qualification.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino tells Gab Marcotti about his hopes that the 2018 and 2022 World Cups change negative perceptions of Russia and Qatar.
Matildas captain and star striker Sam Kerr sits down with ESPN to share her journey from Aussie rules to soccer and what coming home to Perth truly means.
Like football, the essence of what makes a story great is its openness to human interpretation. With Australia to open their 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign against Kuwait on Tuesday, I have to make an admission. (Bear with me, here.)
2001: A Space Odyssey is my favourite film. Aside from the astounding visual experience, why Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece has stood the test of time is that very aspect of interpretation.
Now, aside from Nietzsche’s theories on the Ubermensch, the existence of…
Socceroos Aziz Behich says the Australian squad are ready for an exciting journey towards World Cup qualification.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino tells Gab Marcotti about his hopes that the 2018 and 2022 World Cups change negative perceptions of Russia and Qatar.
Matildas captain and star striker Sam Kerr sits down with ESPN to share her journey from Aussie rules to soccer and what coming home to Perth truly means.
Like football, the essence of what makes a story great is its openness to human interpretation. With Australia to open their 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign against Kuwait on Tuesday, I have to make an admission. (Bear with me, here.)
2001: A Space Odyssey is my favourite film. Aside from the astounding visual experience, why Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece has stood the test of time is that very aspect of interpretation.
Now, aside from Nietzsche’s theories on the Ubermensch, the existence of…
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Matildas captain and star striker Sam Kerr sits down with ESPN to share her journey from Aussie rules to soccer and what coming home to Perth truly means.
Mathew Ryan is excited to see how teaming up with Aaron Mooy at club level will benefit Australia’s World Cup qualifying campaign.
Mooy has joined Ryan at Premier League club Brighton on a season-long loan, reuniting the pair for the first time since their days at Westfields Sport High School in Sydney.
While Mooy is yet to start a league match for the Seagulls, Ryan is hopeful the pair will go on to emulate successful Socceroo pairings at English clubs such as Harry Kewell and Mark Viduka at Leeds,…
FIFA president Gianni Infantino tells Gab Marcotti about his hopes that the 2018 and 2022 World Cups change negative perceptions of Russia and Qatar.
Matildas captain and star striker Sam Kerr sits down with ESPN to share her journey from Aussie rules to soccer and what coming home to Perth truly means.
Awer Mabil says that he is nervous about kicking off his maiden World Cup campaign, but feels he’s at the stage to deliver for Australia.
The speedster, who has scored four goals in 10 appearances for the Socceroos, has joined the quest for a berth in Qatar in 2022, which starts against Kuwait on Tuesday.
Mabil will take a lot of confidence from a strong campaign with his Danish Superliga side Midtjylland, who are undefeated and top of the table after winning seven of their eight matches since July.
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Over 80,000 fans will flock to Gelora Bung Karno Stadium on Thursday to see Indonesia take on Malaysia.
Malaysia’s football rivalry with Singapore may have grown a little stale in recent years, but Thursday’s 2022 World Cup qualifier against Indonesia in front of 80,000 fans in Jakarta promises to be extremely spicy.
The last two meetings between Malaysia and Singapore, in March 2019 in Kuala Lumpur and in October 2016 in the Lion City, were low-key affairs with low attendances.
That could not be in greater contrast to the anticipation ahead of Group G’s opening game. At the moment in Southeast Asia,…
FIFA president Gianni Infantino tells Gab Marcotti about his hopes that the 2018 and 2022 World Cups change negative perceptions of Russia and Qatar.
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“In my mindset, I believe at the end of this, we will be the greatest Socceroos team ever,” Australia head coach Graham Arnold told the media during a teleconference on Friday.
Speaking after naming his first Socceroos squad ahead of what looks set to be a long and arduous qualification phase for the 2022 World Cup, it’s a statement so grandiose and on brand for the Expectant One, it’s one that simply can’t be ignored.
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FIFA president Gianni Infantino tells Gab Marcotti about his hopes that the 2018 and 2022 World Cups change negative perceptions of Russia and Qatar.
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