Fans are attached to their club and usually don't like players leaving. ""I don't think so. I played better games. Specific. The first Australian to play in an FA Cup final, whilst most Socceroos were still playing amateur football in the 1950’s, Marston was endearing himself to supporters at Preston North End, who reportedly turned down a lucrative £80,000 offer from Arsenal for the defender. A career total of 258 goals from 507 games shows just what a good striker Viduka was, but just 11 goals in 43 caps for the Socceroos is a poor return for a player of his calibre. Opta have crunched the data and cast their eye over the numbers to come up with their top 11, based on the regular season's hard numbers. Former Manchester United, Middlesbrough, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Liverpool, Everton, Celtic, Blackburn and Leeds United stars feature in the Socceroos all-time squad.The first official football, or ‘soccer’, match played in Australia was in 1880. And he was a legend.

We trained and played together for a long time and we had a really good understanding. The versatile goal scoring midfielder donned the shirts of Empoli, Parma, Palermo and Lazio over the course of an eleven year stay in Serie A. He won 84 caps.One of only a few non-modern day players in this Australia squad, Johnny Warren is perhaps better known for his off-field promotion of the game in Australia prior to his death in 2004 than his performances on it. It was then that I realised that football was turning into something else. ""The best player I faced at international level would have to be midfielder Zinedine Zidane. Kewell won 56 caps for Australia. I have never seen anything like it. When Henrik Larsson left Celtic and returned there with Barcelona, he was booed. If I'm playing as a lone striker and facing two defenders, one of them can mark me and take chances because he's not scared since he knows there is another defender covering him. "The two ties had different scenarios and were both very close.

Let me tell you something. He was not very tall but very clever and very strong. Who was to know they would get a penalty in the last moments? ""It was. I just have coffees there, that's just about it.

At the time I thought Hiddink would bring on John Aloisi earlier when the Italians had Marco Materazzi sent off, but perhaps he was saving his cards for extra-time. I understand that. ""Whether it is for me or not I wouldn't know because I have never tried it. Below is Australia’s definite 15 man squad, plus their 8 reserves from which Possibly Australia’s strongest position over the years, the country has good options between the sticks. In 2006, the country qualified for the second time, even managing to get out of their group before losing to eventual champions Italy.Australia’s success in 2006 was largely down to the Golden Generation.

I loved playing with Harry. England is the country where most of foreign-born Australian players were born. He became rather unpopular with some of the players later on but I had no such experience with him. I knew she was watching. With 80 caps to his name, Wilkshire is the eighth most capped Australian of all-time. ""I think so, in the end. It was a gamble in a way but we became a strong group on and off the pitch and it showed in my last season when we won the double.

In my football life, whenever I left a club - except for Melbourne Knights - there was always a bad feeling. ""The thing is - up until we got into Asia in 2006 - we used to play easy matches in Oceania and had to perform in two matches against some South American team that would have gone through a whole series of tough qualifiers in their region. Aged 37 and still going strong, Cahill is the countries all-time leading goal scorer with 48 goals from 97 caps. ""Kewell no doubt was my best teammate at club and Socceroos level. Unlike many Aussies, Aloisi left Australia and proved himself to be a decent player overseas. Despite those injury troubles, Kewell still had a distinguished career, and was one of the most feared left wingers in Europe at one time. He was a great manager and I was very surprised when he got the sack for finishing fifth. He is both of the latter two’s oldest ever player, and also won Premier League titles with both.Another Mark, another good Australian goalkeeper who spent most of his career in the Premier League. "Okay, I scored four that day but I don't think it was the greatest game I ever played, to be honest.

For Australia, I usually played as a lone striker but I preferred the two-striker system I played in at club level. Hindsight is a wonderful thing and, as they say, everybody is a general after the battle. Although Viduka was of a large stature, his game was based on technique rather than power. The World Game resumes its monthly feature on Socceroos stars who left their mark on Australian football. We drew the first leg 0-0 and it became very difficult in the return in Valencia. In Glasgow, I found genuine love for the club where we would get 60,000 fans for all matches, even those cup games against second or third division teams. Read the latest Socceroos News, line-ups and statistics. He made his name in Croatia with Zagreb, before heading to Celtic and then onto Premier League trio Leeds United, Middlesbrough and Newcastle. Sometimes you have a great game and fail to find the net; on other occasions you have an average game, you get a couple of sniffs and you score twice. When we got through via a shootout in Sydney in 2005, the tie could have gone either way. That miss cost me a few beers and coffees. "My whole family were excited to take a phone call from Tudjman, who invited us to have lunch with him. The 44-year-old who was still playing in the Premier League up until 2016 is Australia’s most capped player of all-time, with 109 international appearances to his name. I think the second time around under Guus Hiddink we were better organised, especially in defence. "I don't like it when people suggest that was my career highlight... simply because it was not," "How do you define 'highlight', anyway? I had been in the spotlight and under pressure from a very young age and it obviously was very stressful and it takes it out on you. Three Socceroos in Opta Index Hyundai A-League Team of the Season Socceroos Jamie Maclaren, Rhyan Grant and Andrew Redmayne have been named in the Opta Index Hyundai A-League Team of the Regular Season.

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