With Kalik continually getting overlooked by socceroos management despite turning out week in week out for Croatian giants Hadjuk Split, got me thinking of the greatest eligible players to never be capped by the Socceroos (who werent capped by other nations)... 

My 11... 

                                  Tohouroglou
   
   Grdic      Christodoulou        Bosnar     Cassio
                       
Johnston      Oldfield      Carrusca    Volpato
                                         
                     Porta        Anastasiadis
2nd 11
                              Theoklitos
               Mrcela     Jovanovic    Lowry
                                Isaias
            Kalik     Brattan  De Silva       
                            Brimmer
                     Reinaldo     McBreen   
Others
Đurić, Caravella, Danny Invincible, Jovanovic, Henrique, Ansell, Brandon O'Neill, Marusic, Josh Rose, Daniel McBreen, Osama Malik, Nigel Boogard, Liam Reddy, Josip Biskić, Golgol Mebrahtu, Kerem Bulut, Deni Juric, Bruce Kamau, Bradden Inman, Stefan Mauk, Alou Kuol, Talay Ufuk, Lachlan Brook, Jake Hollman, Nic Milanovic, Paul Izzo, Jacob Farrell, Caceres, Jamie Young, Garrucio, Calem Nieuwenhof, Triantis, 

Traore from victory would of been a handy player 

Capped by Ivory Coast. As per the description only including guys that weren't capped by anyone, otherwise would have included Vieri, Simunic, Dorigo etc 

Doesnt exactly qualify as he WAS capped but how Con Boustianis only got 4 caps (one as a late sub) for the Socceroos is baffling.. 4 goals from 4 appearances (Although three where during that 31-0 American Samoa genocide) 

Good shout, criminally underrated player. Watched a YouTube compilation of him recently. Had a rocket launcher for a shot 

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HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAH 

Yeah, I'm not sure whether BOH's initial comment was intentional humour or not!!!

Hahaha unintentional on my part! Completely forgot about that saga! 

Great left foot from memory and free kick specialist.

Josip Šimunić maybe? Can we shoehorn in Cristian Vieri? Also could go with Avraam Papadopoulos and Giannis Samaras.

Great players but all capped by other countries (I mentioned in the description that only considering guys that weren't capped by anyone) 

curious what players were uncapped born 75-80?

Me :P hahahahahahah

The guys who come to mind are Viera, Johnston, Dorigo, Simunic, Seric, Didulica and Dykes. 

                  

Fantastic players but only including guys that weren't capped by other nations. 

Johnston wasn't capped by another nation, just elected club over country

Yep exception from what you mentioned is Johnston which is why I named him in the team  but others all capped.

Actually I've forgotten Christophe Teinert

My understanding is the Craig Johnston was capped in a "B" International for England which, in those days, precluded him being capped by Australia.

Johnston make a silly comment at 17 years old that 'playing football was like surfing for England' & this was held against him.

IMO, he more than most was the little Aussie made it big in the UK playing for the Man City of the Day, Liverpool, lots of people started following Liverpool because of Johnston & even I followed the shit club for a while. They like Man City now, brought the competition in the 80s & changed football in the UK.
Liverpool in the 80s, Man U in the 90s eraly 2000s & now Man City just brought all the players & provided us with unequal competitions.

No more Notts Forest Div 2 winners, the Div 1 winners the following year & European Champions the year after that.

They say money talks 

Roo wouldn't couldn't have - been one of our best mids of the times but niave 17yr old with heaps of pressure bad case of flippant foot mouth desease that yes the mud stuck.
Hard days travelling then and clubs hate letting players go as well, pioneer you could say but he was alone, LFC would have been constantly in his ears, they sooner he play for England than Roos might I add.
Would have luved seeing him play for us, would have been a beast.
Football even back in those 1st Div days had the have's and nots, cinderella's now and then back then but no more this is the times.

vincen Karem was never gonna have anything stable sadly.

The Man City of the day comment is absolute bollocks.

Liverpool typically bought one or two players per season up until about 1986, by that time , they were on a slow downward trajectory. Stick to the facts, not your hatred of a club in a foreign land to you.

I will help you with this link

https://www.soccerbase.com/teams/team.sd?team_id=1563&teamTabs=transfers

I'd go with Galekovic in goal, backed by Caravella, Wilkshire, Vukovic, and Wilkshire in defense. O'Neill, McKay, and Carle would make a solid midfield trio, supporting Volpato and Kalik up front, with McBreen and Reinaldo as the striking duo. In the 2nd XI, Theoklitos would take the keeper spot, with Mrcela, Ansell, Lowry, and Rose in defense.

Galekovic, wilkshire, Vukovic and wilkshire all capped so too oneill mckay and carle. 

Didnt Theo get a cap too (I could swear I remember him sitting on the bench for  Roos game)???

Interestingly Luke Brattan has been picked in 4 A league teams of the season and called up to several socceroos camps but til now still never capped once for the socceroos!! 

Carrusca wasn't capped but he was cap tied to Argentina after playing u20s. The fornaroli rule came too late for him.

Does anyone know why David Oldfield never played for the socceroos?

Played 4 seasons in the English top flight and 7  seasons in the 2nd flight yet never played for Australia. 

his resume looks a bit weak tbh (scroll down to the table)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Oldfield_(footballer)

He played at lower levels (league 1) once he was older sure but first 10 years of his career was at either top flight or 2nd division. Need to remember the top flight (Premier league) was called '1st division' til 92/93, and then from that point til I believe 02/03 2nd flight (the championship) was called first division. So all in all he played 4 seasons of Premier league level, and 7 seasons of championship level. And most of those 7 seasons at championship level were either promotion or challenging promotion.

How many Australian footballers played more 4 seasons or more, in the big 5 or champions league sides? Not many.  His cv puts him above Muscat, Popa, Foster, Murphy, Tiatto, foxe, Mcgree, Richard Garcia and Harry Souttar and a host of other famous socceroos who had/have had lengthy careers in England. 

And how many of the current socceroos have played that many seasons or more at that level? Only Ryan and Leckie, that's it. 

I remember seeing him on TV playing for Luton(?) He wasn't that good. Big, ran about a lot, limited skills.

There would probably be a big list of non-NSW players from the 60's and 70's when team selection heavily favoured NSW players. That was before my time though.

How porta never got capped is a head scratched.

Kubo Lapsansky

I mean... Just for his name alone he deserves a cap. :)

If Karem wasn't caught up in off field drama and had a stable foundation he could have been one of our best strikers we've ever had. 

 

John Crawley brilliant keeper mostly played in South America ... 

Johnston arguably one of our best ever, certainly with awards... but made a couple of silly remarks.... 

The fact that no other Aussie in any era would have made that Liverpool side, tells you all you need to know. No, Kewell , would not have.

Great shout re Crawley!! 

Some interesting players on that list, a shame they didn’t get an opportunity to play for the Socceroos.

David Seal
Lou Hristodoulou

Good shout re Seal forgot about him. Was an early bloomer