Champness, Stensness and Dane Ingham have all been picked in NZ’s Olympic squad.

I’m also very shocked to see that Sarpreet Singh wasn’t picked.

Champness, Stensness and Dane Ingham have all been picked in NZ’s Olympic squad.

I’m also very shocked to see that Sarpreet Singh wasn’t picked.

Bayern refused to release him

Champness, Stensness and Dane Ingham have all been picked in NZ’s Olympic squad.

I’m also very shocked to see that Sarpreet Singh wasn’t picked.

Stefan Colakovski had apparently declared for Macedonia and will seemingly go straight into their senior team.

https://twitter.com/macedonianfoot_/status/1422146846747762692?s=21

Colakovski and Matt Bozinovski are heading over to Europe to play for Macedonia’s u21 team.

North Macedonia's U21s bud.... You don't say Adelaide is the capital city of the state of Australia do you?

I’m calling them their actual name, not the one Greece bullied them into.

Quite the opposite im claiming he has been following the sport for a long time but still has some stupid arguments on it....like the post he replied too, was a dumb response 

But i dont expect much from these forums anymore of the 'fans' are pretty clueless 

Most fans get protective over the AFC even though it is mostly 'shit' they cant seem to call a spade a spade. I think this is one of the biggest issue in Australian football, people dont want to face the facts.

Joining the AFC has been terrible for Australian football, objectively speaking and anyone who disagrees is clueless, yes i accept the argument it is 'more' competitive but the issue is that competition has made exposure difficult at all level bar the senior side. Thus U/20 dont make world cups etc. 

Football is all about exposure and 'hype' there are millions of players out there and 1000s of players undiscovered that could be world class making the exposure 10 times harder to get for a 'few extra' competitive Socceroos fixtures has been a disaster.  

If you read any biography players will say they grew up playing with kids that were 'better' then them but either had the wrong mentality, got injuried or simply never got the luck break signing possibly due to timing and usually due to a lack of exposure.    

If you think im wrong just look at NZ national team - they have a population of <5m, Football is less popular in NZ then it is in Australia they have less financial capabilities, they only have 1 professional team but but  they have more top players then we do atm and they are in the OFC a confederation where every team is hopeless but they get exposure going to WCs and Olympics with U20, U23 etc.

Thus once again calling a spade a spade, being part of the AFC is the biggest mistake the FFA has made. I dont blame them bcuz at the time it seemed like a good idea. But its been 15 years and we are still 'outsiders' in our own confederation with Qatar getting a world cup and a lack of real support for our bid in the 2022 WC shows it was a mistake to leave the OFC. If this FFA has any brains it would abandon the AFC and build a OFC league out of the A-L have a side from each member of the confederation. Turn the A-L into the OFC league it would make the league international it would help the region and at the same time make us the 'power' brokers for football in the region, opposed to being a outsiders no one likes in the AFC.

Colakovski and Matt Bozinovski are heading over to Europe to play for Macedonia’s u21 team.

Both are starting against France

Dykes scored a tap in on the goal line to give Scotland a 1-0 win over Moldova.

Wow he scored a worldie against the might of Moldova. Scotland really put the 175th ranked team in world football to the sword! Imagine if the Socceroos only beat Moldova 1-0 - the knives would be out for Arnie & the team would be called the worst Socceroos team in history!!! But I'm sure Dykes is enjoying the "harder" option to qualify for the world cup

Hope he Especially enjoys struggling to even survive group when they’re sitting in 3rd place on points, plus goal difference too 😆
Could Celtic/Rangers -er sorry i mean Scotland even beat China 3-0 in Doha??!!

Once again you show your ignorance of any football outside of Australia.

Once again you show your ignorance of any football outside of Australia.

Hope he Especially enjoys struggling to even survive group when they’re sitting in 3rd place on points, plus goal difference too 😆
Could Celtic/Rangers -er sorry i mean Scotland even beat China 3-0 in Doha??!!

Mate I applaud your patriotism but you cant argue Australia has a harder qualifying route to WC than Scotland??? Surely?

And yeah if I am ‘ignorant of any football outside of Australia’ then I guess being in an AUSTRALIAN football site means I should just stick to this particular forum. Wouldn’t ever waste my time dealing with mostly Ferals on celtic/rangers forums. How about yourself?! Are YOU in the right forum??!!

You once again miss the point. You would have to be one of the thickest people I have engaged over the internet with. 

20 year old Yahya El Hindi was called up for Lebanon’s senior team and made his debut recently. He was cut from Sydney Olympic, dropped into NPL 2 and then signed for Nejmeh in Lebanon.

Brisbane Strikers under 20 defender Zach Binrong was called up for the Thai under 18 side.

Good luck to them both.