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Socceroos rocked by Vukovic, Boyle injuries

Sydney FC players Adam Le Fondre, Rhyan Grant and Ryan McGowan played against 30 school children ahead of the Sky Blue’s friendly against PSG.

Adelaide Olympic player Fausto Erba scored a sensational goal to give his side the lead against Floreat Athena before receiving a second yellow card for his celebration.

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Goalkeeper Danny Vukovic will miss the start of the Socceroos’ World Cup qualifying campaign, and most likely the majority of the European football season, after he ruptured his achilles.
In more bad news for Australian national team coach Graham Arnold, winger Martin Boyle will have surgery on a knee injury suffered playing for Hibernian and is not expected to play again this year.
Vukovic posted a photo of himself in his hospital bed after surgery on his left leg, which could rule the 34-year-old…

Australia captain Milligan joins Southend

Alejandro Moreno sifts through the latest transfer rumours in this week’s Transfer Rater, including a potential short stay for Miguel Almiron at Newcastle.
Socceroos skipper Mark Milligan has joined English third-tier outfit Southend United.
The 33-year-old midfielder left Scottish Premiership club side Hibernian in May and has been recruited by the League One club on an initial one-year deal, plus an option for a further year.
“I’m very excited. It’s always a process but to be down here now I can’t wait to get started,” said Milligan, capped 79 times by Australia and who featured at the 2014 and 2018 World Cups.
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U.S. defender Jonathan Spector joins Scotland’s Hibernian for rest of season

Former Orlando City defender Jonathan Spector has joined Scottish club Hibs for the rest of the season.
Defender Jonathan Spector has signed with Hibernian of Scotland’s Premier League after two seasons with Orlando City in Major League Soccer.
Hibs said the 33-year-old from Arlington Heights, Illinois, has agreed to a contract through the rest of the season after Orlando declined the option on his contract for 2019.
Spector has 36 appearances with the U.S. national team. He was Orlando’s captain last year following the departure of Kaka.
After making three appearances with Manchester United in 2004-05,…

Graham Arnold rejects Hibernian job link: ‘I am surprised to learn of the speculation’

Australia exited the Asian Cup at the quarter-final stage at the hands of the UAE.

Graham Arnold says Australia faces being overtaken by other Asian nations with better-funded football programs.
Socceroos coach Graham Arnold has belatedly knocked back speculation suggesting he was interested in leaving the national team to coach in Scotland.
Arnold is overseas on leave after Australia’s disappointing quarterfinal exit in their Asian Cup title defence.
Three days after an ESPN report emerged stating Arnold was interested in taking up the reins at Hibernian, the 55-year-old rebuffed the suggestion in an FFA statement.
“I am surprised to learn of the speculation,” Arnold said. “We have just…

Melbourne City set to sign Jamie Maclaren, keep unsettled Bruno Fornaroli

The Wellington Phoenix kept Melbourne City in check as they crusied to a 1-0 victory.

Australia exited the Asian Cup at the quarter-final stage at the hands of the UAE.

Graham Arnold says Australia faces being overtaken by other Asian nations with better-funded football programs.
Wantaway striker Bruno Fornaroli appears certain to be marooned at Melbourne City beyond Thursday’s transfer deadline with no softening of the A-League club stance towards the Uruguayan.
Though Socceroos striker Jamie Maclaren is likely to sign in the next 24 hours and City hopeful of another attacker joining him, Fornaroli’s path back to the first team appears in rubble.
And there’s no likely exit route for the goal machine, deemed surplus to requirements by coach Warren Joyce as the English boss…

Australia manager Graham Arnold interested in Hibernian job – source

Australia exited the Asian Cup at the quarter-final stage at the hands of the UAE.

Graham Arnold says Australia faces being overtaken by other Asian nations with better-funded football programs.
Australia boss Graham Arnold is interested in succeeding Neil Lennon as manager of Scottish Premiership side Hibernian, a source has told ESPN.
Reports surfaced on Friday that Lennon has been suspended by the club after an exchange with chief executive Leeann Dempster. Hibs confirmed in a short statement that he will not be in charge of Sunday’s Premiership game against St Mirren.
Arnold, 55, has only been in charge of the Australia national team for six months, overseeing the defending Asian champions’…

Australia winger Martin Boyle ruled out of Asian Cup with knee injury

Socceroos goalkeeper Mat Ryan speaks on the surreal feeling of reaching 50 appearances for Australia.
The Socceroos’ Asian Cup defence has been rocked by a tournament-ending knee injury to promising winger Martin Boyle.
The Scottish-born Boyle picked up a knock in Sunday’s 5-0 warm-up win over Oman, and scans on Monday confirmed the worst for coach Graham Arnold.
Boyle’s withdrawal comes barely a week after key playmaker Aaron Mooy was ruled out for the tournament, with whiz kid Daniel Arzani erased before that also because of a knee injury.
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The hammer blow leaves Arnold just four days to find…

Martin Boyle delighted to be playing for Australia: ‘I’m extremely proud to represent this country’

Australia claimed a comfortable 3-0 win over Lebanon in Tim Cahill’s sendoff match for the Socceroos.

Graham Arnold recalls how Martin Boyle came to his attention at Hibs and discusses his outlook for the younger Australian players.

Tim Cahill was given a rousing sendoff by the Australian fans and teammates during his final international appearance.
New Socceroos star Martin Boyle has passed the anthem test with flying colours, and he’s still soaring following a huge first week of action for Socceroos .
Scottish-born Boyle, whose father was born in Sydney, made an instant impression in the Socceroos jersey with his direct running and nose for goal.
He laid on a late equaliser in his debut off the bench against South Korea last Saturday and scored two goals and set up the other in Australia’s 3-0 win over Lebanon on Tuesday in his first start.
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Jamie Maclaren returns to Suncorp Stadium looking to break Socceroos duck

Andrew Nabbout has had a tough journey back to the Socceroos after his injury in the World Cup.
If anywhere looms as the venue for Jamie Maclaren to notch his first Socceroos goal then Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium is surely the most fitting.
The 25-year-old enjoyed two goal-laden A-League campaigns at the Brisbane Roar, notching 42 goals in 59 appearances in all competitions including many at the Queensland venue.
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Yet to hit the back of the net for the national team in six appearances, Maclaren admits it’s nice to be back on familiar territory ahead of Saturday’s friendly against South Korea.
“I’ve…

Hibernian move has Mark Milligan loving football again

Andrew Nabbout has had a tough journey back to the Socceroos after his injury in the World Cup.
Mark Milligan couldn’t be happier to be finally achieving his ambition of playing professionally in the United Kingdom.
The 33-year-old contemplated retirement after the World Cup in Russia but realised a life-long goal in August when he signed with Scottish Premiership club Hibernian.
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After spells in China, Japan, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, playing in a professional European league has been everything Milligan hoped for.
“I’m loving my football at the minute,” Milligan, who has…

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