Last night the Socceroos beat Greece 1-0 in front of a packed MCG. What a promising result with only a little over 2 weeks until the start of the World Cup. By my calculations, if Australia beat Greece (who were the champions of Europe in 2004), then that means we should play someone from South America in the finals! Of course that won’t happen, and even though Greece won Eruo 2004, they didn’t make the final 32 teams for the World Cup. Nevertheless, this result for Australia means that they can enter their first group match against Japan with a lot of confidence - especially considering that Harry Kewell and their first choice goalkeeper, Mark Schwarzer, should be in the lineup.

A lot of sportswriters aren’t expecting much from the Australian side, but I think a lot of so called ‘experts’ are going to be surprised. I’m sure Australian coach, Guus Hiddink, will be loving the fact that Australia has been written off as merely making up the numbers. I know that all Australians are expecting big things from the side, and although we don’t realistically expect the Socceroos to win the competition, making it to the second round would be huge for the game back home.

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Hopefully we will see a lot of this by the Aussies in the next month or so

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