we def need to play young players in these friendlies and in the asian cup there is no doubt i would like to see oar. ruka. vidosic. r.wiliiams. mayb zullo and sarota


What do you think about the FourFourTwo article No Rest For The Roos?
THE Socceroos will have little time to lick their World Cup wounds with the FFA revealing a packed schedule of friendlies on the horizon ahead of the Asian Cup.

Have your say.

good we have 3 euro opponents hopefully some good opposition we should even play some other young players like lowry, spira, holland, kanta, mooy. Now is when we should give them game time

My guesses:

Europe - Sweden or Netherlands (again)
September - An African and European opponent?
Home - An Asian team, perhaps South Korea, China or Saudi
North Africa - Egypt
AC Lead-in - Again, an Asian team (as above), perhaps South Korea, China or Saudi

The way things are going at the world cup maybe we should arrange a few friend lies against South American teams.

Need to be careful when calling up young players from their clubs in Europe though, we don't want them to lose their first team places.

What a great year for football; World cup, New A-league team and Asian cup. We just need to sign a coach for our national team and we will be underway in an attempt for asian cup glory and a chance to play in the Confederations cup once more.



Edited by Davstar: 29/6/2010 02:31:50 PM

cap Inman and anyone else like him.

I would hope that the friendlies are arranged mainly against Asian teams since we are playing the asian cup??

Australia hould be able to draw some of teh best teams in asia to have a friendly against.

No real problem. None of them have first team places.

Why does it say at the start that the Socceroos have revealed a busy schedule but no dates have been released? Hmmm.

The core of the team should be the first team Socceroos with a sprinkling of the young players that are playing in Europe.

We have another 10 FIFA dates next year and the 6 Olympic dates also to continue developing the younger players during 2011 before World Cup qualifying commences in 2012 so there is no need to hurry with blooding all the young players for or in Qatar.

Edited by gyfox: 29/6/2010 03:18:06 PM

Why would we be announcing the make up of the Asian team in the coming weeks? Unless he means the gaffer - and in that case it can only come from current staff withstanding a new hire;

Vidmar
Versleijen

Thankfully the FFA can't announce Arnold as manager.

Friendless are by and large meaningless. Need tournament experience.

A good move by the FFA and I hope now that Pim Verbeek has gone, the new trend will be for the governing body to arrange lots of friendlies involving the Socceroos, especially A-League-based Socceroos squads, whether the new coach likes it or not. Under Pim Verbeek a Soccerros squad made up of local players was always under-prepared because it never played a single friendly game ahead of Asian Cup qualifiers.

There's talk of hosting Chile at home later this year, it better happen and it better happen in Melbourne so that we get a proper 'farewell game' to see off some of the boys.

Totally agree.

Macca should play too.

Edited by TimmyJ: 29/6/2010 03:43:18 PM

I think we should use the Asian cup to develop the next team, like the Olympics is used to develop the youngsters (or is supposed to be, thanks GA). No passengers. if Tim, Harry and Mark (and Marco, Brett and Jason too IMHO) say they want to go to Brazil then they can go in the squad but I wouldn't start them because in all honesty they likely won't start in 2014 if we qualify. Time to take a page out of Germany's book and learn from our mistakes. Bring on the new. Our average age in January should be 23, so the average age in 2014 is 26 or so like the Germans in this tournament.
BTW FIFA thinks we are playing Slovenia: http://www.fifa.com/associations/association=aus/fixturesresults/gender=m/index.html#

Will be in Sydney. Brisbane had Indonesia, Melbourne had New Zealand.

Edited by Mr: 29/6/2010 05:52:48 PM

It's not just about playing a heap of games it's how we play them. No more of this constant crappy double defensive midfielder crap all the time. If we have learnt anything from this WC it's to be more flexible and versatile in our approach with more emphasis in going forward.

mark viduka should coach the socceroos

I said Melbourne wants a proper farewell game.

Its been this last world cup experience that has shown us that people like John Boultbee must go and be replaced by football people. Thanks for the service but its time to go!

Read somewhere that the games are:

August - Slovenia
Sept - Switzerland & another TBC
Oct - Chile
November - Eqypt
January - UAE

Toys and prams.

That looks accurate. I hope the September matches are in London.

Sick Idea.
Hopefully pays dividends for the asian cup. I'm a softy for the confederations cup and hey if it means we will likely play new zealand then boo yeah.

+1. You only have to look at the confidence the US gained from the last Confederations Cup to show that it is a worthwhile tournament to be involved in.

It's about time Perth got a proper Socceroos game.

I don't think we will be playing against South Korea in a friendly as we will be playing against them in the Asian Cup. I'm guessing someone like Uzbeks, Iran or UAE for Asian teams

you will find that most internationals will be played at suncorp as ffa did a deal with them to lower the roars overall costs

I hope they give Lowry a run at left back to test him at international level. IMO that was the biggest problem position in the team at the world cup. Hopefully he steps up as well as Vidosic and Williams.

This is a fantastic schedule of matches and will allow the new coach to build some momentum. Credit to FFA. Friendlies such as this are an important part of tournament preparation. We have come a long way in the last 6 to 10 years. People should remember that there was a time not so long ago that our national team played only a handful of matches in a calendar year. These regular matches for the national side can only be beneficial. Good news.

NAIL HAMMER HEAD

anyone that thinks our new generation are going to benfit for playing meaningless friendlys and thats it are deluded

And Adelaide - its been too freeking long!!!!!!

A melbournian complaining about what opponents they get - they should count their lucky stars they get games unlike Adelaide and Perth

Edited by UnitedGal: 29/6/2010 09:29:31 PM

Most of us in Melbourne were happy to hand the NZ game to either of your cities, trust us.

We will take it in a heartbeat

Im just saying its a bit rich to complain about Socceroo games when you are the lucky ones that get to see them in the first place. You get to see them play live, you get to see them train or if there is a day were the players meet the fans its you guys that get to do that with Cahil, Kewel, Schwarzer, Brech and co.....weve shed as many tears over Qualifying losses and stayed up through countless late nights praying for a great result as pasionatly as any Victorian, Sydnesider or Bannana beder and what do we get........f all

I still be a proud Socceroo and a United member till the day im pushing up dasies but sometimes its infuriating not to be given a chance.

Edited by UnitedGal: 29/6/2010 09:43:31 PM

Edited by UnitedGal: 29/6/2010 09:45:15 PM

Totally get you, at the time, a lot of folk here felt that the FFA was trying to milk Melbourne for all it was worth. Many of us were happy for the May 'farewell game' to have been hosted elsewhere.

we need to take the asian cup seriously this time.
that seemed to be our biggest downfall.

august looks like its confirmed with slovenia

looking at the september clashes
supposed we are playing european nations, these are the only nations not playing on those fifa dates

3rd sep switzerland, denmark, czech republic
7th sep wales, cyprus, spain

oct is in sydney (sydney fc are giving away tickets to 'a socceroos clash tba in october' when you sign up new members

nov and the january warm up are anyones guess.
mine is egypt and uae

The Victorian Government pay for the main game each year. Unfortunately for Victorians that was the World Cup send off against New Zealand. From memory the MCG is not available anyway as it is under preparation for the cricket season in October. Sydney getting the Chile game would be appropriate as that is were most people of Chilean decent reside.

Definitely UAE in January.
http://au.fourfourtwo.com/news/169014,roos-set-for-january-uae-date.aspx

I wouldn't mind the first Sept game in Basle, Switzerland and then the mid-week in Madrid.

While the result may be meaningless, the value is in getting the team together, building cohesion, learning to play the system, etc.