By Sebr1968 - 20 Nov 2017 2:03 AM
Although I'm not overly superstitious, I was watching the SBS documentary with John Safran (from the early 2000's), where he traveled to Mozambique to lift the curse that had been placed on the Australian team by a witch doctor back in 1969, in retaliation for not being paid for his services.
When I think back at Australia's recent successful World Cup qualification attempts eg. the 2006 WC and more recently 2018, I'm starting to think the curse has been well and truly lifted eg. the second leg of the Australia V Uruguay playoff in Sydney back in 2005, where Recoba misses a simple one on one with Mark Schwarzer, and Ricardo Morales misses an open header. More recently, the second leg of the Australia V Syria playoff, where Australia leading 2-1, conceded a free kick outside the box (in the 120th minute), with the resulting free kick hitting the bar, had it gone in, Syria, not Australia would have been playing Hondouras.
And when you look at the Socceroos recent qualification campaign, where they played some shit football, but still didn't lose (except for the Japan game, and the Jordan game earlier on), you start to think, did John Safran successfully lift the curse that had plagued Australia for 32 years?
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By Sebr1968 - 22 Nov 2017 12:41 PM
+xIf there's any sort of curse in place it has to be on the Australian strikers missing blatant chances in front of goal !!!
Indeed, and it's arguably the most frustrating aspect of watching the Soccerroos.
When you look at the history of the Soccerroos, right through to to present, we have, for the most part, have had good goalies, decent defenders and some solid midfielders who can create some good scoring opportunities, but when it comes to finishing, it's the Soccerroos biggest weakness.
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