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Archive pages on this domain filed under “World Cup”, newest first. These are older materials, kept online for readers and researchers.
If you have any interest in the World Game in Australia then & Bill Murray, A History of Football in Australia: A Game…
Harry Kewell is bringing down the curtain on a stellar career at the end of the current A-League season. It is a pity…
Former Ayr United player and Australian visitor retires Quite a surprise at the amount of media coverage of the…
Australia 2 Oman 2 Australia squeaked out of its home game against Oman with a two-all draw after going behind in the…
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(This article was published on the Goal Weekly website on 1 January 2013…
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Rangers fans in Sydney in July 2010. A bad week for football might do some good? The game of football has taken a battering this week though it is…
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Another champion team from Spain. Real Madrid in 1960 and Ferenc Puskas celebrates a goal. Are Spain the greatest ever? It is inevitable that Spain’s…
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(This story appeared as a Blast from the Past column in Goal Weekly on 2 March 2012, p. 19. Click on the photographs below to enlarge them. The…
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Australia 4 Saudi Arabia 2 Australia overcame a spirited Saudi Arabia by four goals to two in the final game of the first qualifying group for the…
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Time for FFA to keep its nerve (This aritcle appeared on the SBS website, The World Game on 22 February 2012 and in Goal Weekly on 24 February 2012.)…
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Victorian members of the Young Socceroos with their medals. Left to right: Mark Silic, Robert Spasevski, Robert Stojcevski, Kevin Muscat, Kris…
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Australia’s 1969 squad before the World Cup qualification matches. Back row, left to right: Les Bordacs, manager, Alan Marnoch, John Watkiss, Stan…
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The football World Cup, which reaches its climax in Germany this weekend, is the greatest multicultural sporting extravaganza of modern times. Its…
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The year 2005 was dominated by the qualification campaigns for the World Cup in Germany in June 2006 and by parts of two superb seasons of European…
Geelong Advertiser, Monday 9 October 2006, p. 37. The football World Cup is the greatest multicultural sporting…
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Getting to the World Cup was hard enough, but now Australia faces the current and five times world champion, Brazil, European powerhouse Croatia and…
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Published as 'High achievers: Geelong's star performers in the world game', Geelong Advertiser, Monday 1 January 2007, p. 37. This was an…
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Click on link for results. World Cup 2006 Draw and Results - 24/05/2006 World Cup 2006 Draw and Results - 10/07/2006
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Scots go crazy over Trinidad and Tobago The World Cup is under way, but the Scots are not there. No worries. We will just support Trinidad and Tobago…
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Guus Hiddink, pragmatist, strategist and gambler It is perhaps too early to assess Guus Hiddink’s contribution to Australian football, but it is…
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Goal Weekly, Monday 12 May 2008, p. 11 Next month Australia will continue its attempt to reach the World Cup finals in South Africa with a series of…
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Goal Weekly, Monday 22 September 2008, p. 21. It is only two years ago since Australia played in the World Cup in Germany in 2006, but already it…