Socceroos squad for latest AFC qualifiers. Only one A League player, Rhyan Grant - mostly due to MIQ requiurements/travel restrictions.
Champness's new team mate Behich in there. Mitch Duke there from J2.
Singh lost to Jackson Irvine over the weekend, whilst Tuiloma got up over Brad Smith today. Tzanev lost to Baily Wright's Sunderland last weekend. Cacace lost to Trent Sainsbury a few weeks back in Belgium.
Getting to the stage where is a lot of AWs playing at similar levels, to most of the Socceroos.
https://www.sportingnews.com/au/football/news/socceroos-squad-rogic-mooy-return-arzani-earns-surprise-recall-for-world-cup-qualifiers/5ap709yg6vgv1mopxsbyk1c7j
Socceroos 27-man squad (vs. China & Vietnam)
Champness's new team mate Behich in there. Mitch Duke there from J2.
Singh lost to Jackson Irvine over the weekend, whilst Tuiloma got up over Brad Smith today. Tzanev lost to Baily Wright's Sunderland last weekend. Cacace lost to Trent Sainsbury a few weeks back in Belgium.
Getting to the stage where is a lot of AWs playing at similar levels, to most of the Socceroos.
https://www.sportingnews.com/au/football/news/socceroos-squad-rogic-mooy-return-arzani-earns-surprise-recall-for-world-cup-qualifiers/5ap709yg6vgv1mopxsbyk1c7j
Socceroos 27-man squad (vs. China & Vietnam)
Name Team
Daniel Arzani | Lommel SK, Belgium | Ryan McGowan | Kuwait SC, Kuwait
Aziz Behich | Giresunspor, Turkey | Riley McGree | Birmingham City, England
Martin Boyle | Hibernian, Scotland | Aaron Mooy | Shanghai Port, China
Milos Degenek | Red Star Belgrade, Serbia | Tom Rogic | Celtic, Scotland
Kenneth Dougall | Blackpool, England | Mathew Ryan (GK) | Real Sociedad, Spain Mitch Duke | Fagiano Okayama, Japan | Trent Sainsbury | KV Kortrijk, Belgium Callum Elder | Hull City, England | Brad Smith | Seattle Sounders, USA
Denis Genreau | Toulouse FC, France | Harry Souttar | Stoke City, England
Rhyan Grant | Sydney FC, Australia | Ryan Strain | Maccabi Haifa, Israel
Ajdin Hrustic | Eintracht Frankfurt, Germany | Adam Taggart | Cerezo Osaka, Japan Jackson Irvine | St Pauli, Germany | Lawrence Thomas (GK) | SønderjyskE Fodbold, Denmark Paul Izzo (GK) | Xanthi FC, Greece | Danny Vukovic (GK) | NEC Nijmegen, Netherlands James Jeggo | Aris Thessaloniki, Greece | Bailey Wright | Sunderland, England Awer Mabil | FC Midtjylland, Denmark
Daniel Arzani | Lommel SK, Belgium | Ryan McGowan | Kuwait SC, Kuwait
Aziz Behich | Giresunspor, Turkey | Riley McGree | Birmingham City, England
Martin Boyle | Hibernian, Scotland | Aaron Mooy | Shanghai Port, China
Milos Degenek | Red Star Belgrade, Serbia | Tom Rogic | Celtic, Scotland
Kenneth Dougall | Blackpool, England | Mathew Ryan (GK) | Real Sociedad, Spain Mitch Duke | Fagiano Okayama, Japan | Trent Sainsbury | KV Kortrijk, Belgium Callum Elder | Hull City, England | Brad Smith | Seattle Sounders, USA
Denis Genreau | Toulouse FC, France | Harry Souttar | Stoke City, England
Rhyan Grant | Sydney FC, Australia | Ryan Strain | Maccabi Haifa, Israel
Ajdin Hrustic | Eintracht Frankfurt, Germany | Adam Taggart | Cerezo Osaka, Japan Jackson Irvine | St Pauli, Germany | Lawrence Thomas (GK) | SønderjyskE Fodbold, Denmark Paul Izzo (GK) | Xanthi FC, Greece | Danny Vukovic (GK) | NEC Nijmegen, Netherlands James Jeggo | Aris Thessaloniki, Greece | Bailey Wright | Sunderland, England Awer Mabil | FC Midtjylland, Denmark
It kind of feels like there’s a missing generation of Aussie talent somewhere. Rogic hasn’t moved up from Celtic, Amini hasn’t set the world on fire, Mooy is out of the EPL or Championship, Juric is back home and not obviously a class above like some had thought…and now even Leckie is going to be back in Aussie. Kruse has gone from pushing for a place in a top 3 Bundesliga team to bottom of the A league. Langerak has retired from international football. Rukavytsya has had a solid career, but seems out of the picture at 34.
Honestly seems like a bunch of the Melbourne City boys should be overseas starting with Metcalfe.
Even Mark Milligan could have maybe pushed on a bit further than he did perhaps. Though he’s done now too.