the best day for OZZI SOCCER

[VOGE_EYE]

ITS ABOUT TIME FIFA YOU GOT OF YOUR ASS AND DID THIS2006 AUSTRALIA WC CHAMPIONS FOR SURE

 

[ozbash]

eye, how are aussie going to become w/cup champs ?
nz hammered them this winter at erricson stad.

i think aussies should stick to the oval ball..

go kingz !

 

[VOGE_EYE]

DONT WORRY SHEEP SHAGER WE WILL FIX YOU KIWIS UP

 

[ozbash]

lol, ok mate.

 

[VOGE_EYE]

KIWI AT WORK

 

[VOGE_EYE]

DREAM ON

 

[El Duque]

Go the Kiwis.

A loss to N.Z. would hopefully be the death of this pathetic game in Aus.

 

[ozbash]

World governing body Fifa announced today Oceania would have a direct qualification place for the World Cup for the first time in 2006. MacGowan said the reaction from Australia that it was virtually guaranteed the Oceania slot in the World Cup finals was "typically Australian. "Our biggest challenge is to not allow it to become an Australian charity and New Zealand needs to be planning for that." News reports out of Australia said on current form Australia, the strongest team in the confederation, was almost guaranteed a place in the finals for the foreseeable future. However, MacGowan said Australia was ranked 48th in the world - only one place ahead of New Zealand - and the Australian comments were "absolutely arrogant. "But in saying it is arrogant, if you look at their top side when they put it on the park, they are a world class outfit." The Oceania format was likely to change to a home and away format and the challenge to both countries was to bring all their top overseas players in the starting 11 back for the new format, he said. "That is going to prove a challenge for Australia to bring their players back on a regular basis, as for us," MacGowan said. MacGowan said the announcement was a great opportunity but New Zealand was determined not to let Australia take the World Cup slot virtually automatically every four years. He rated the announcement as one of the biggest days for Oceania soccer for many years and said it was the culmination of a lot of work by former Oceania head, New Zealander Charlie Dempsey. "It is a big day and it is a credit to Charlie Dempsey who has been battling for this for a long time. "It is probably the biggest decision Fifa has made on behalf of Oceania. "The impact of getting to the World Cup is just unbelievable. It is the biggest sporting event in the world. The money involved is significant. The exposure in terms of world-wide television is huge and it certainly puts players on the world wide stage." MacGowan said no one had forgotten 1982 when New Zealand reached the finals in Spain as the Oceania representative. MacGowan said Soccer New Zealand never had a problem enticing young players onto the field but had never returned to the days following the 1982 success of John Adshead's team. "This decisions makes that one step closer. It's one more door that opens for us." MacGowan said New Zealand beat Australia in the Confederation Cup earlier this year - the tournament ranked immediately behind the World Cup. "We have been there twice in the last four years. They haven't got there so... let's just see what the results are on the park," he said. Former All Whites skipper Steve Sumner believed Fifa's decision was probably 16 years too late. Direct entry into the World Cup finals should have been awarded in 1986, he told Radio Sport. "New Zealand had proved they could actually foot it at that stage. So could Australia and just didn't get the chance," he said. "When the numbers changed from 24 to 32, at that time I think our region should have had automatic entry." Football Kingz coach and former All Whites coach Ken Dugdale hailed the decision as a "landmark day for Oceania football". "Now that we have direct entry, the game should have a great opportunity to blossom down here in the southern hemisphere." Dugdale said it would still be difficult for New Zealand to beat Australia to earn direct entry, but "everything is possible". "There's nothing impossible and I guess the incentive is there now for things to be put into place to develop the game and the players individually in New Zealand to the stage where we can be competitive with Australia. "It's not going to be easy, but as I say it's not impossible."

 

[pepe]

you little ripper,we are a shoe in to make the world cup finals for the next thousand years,it's time to kick the rotten football kingz out the NSL,why give them a helping hand,they need to be crushed unmercifully.

beware of the samoans,the 36-0 scoreline last campaign could have gone either way,fortunatly we got on top of them early.

pepe

 

[ozbash]

in yer dreams pepsi, we thrashed you lot this winter.

 

[imported_E_A__]

You won't be playing the 'D' side in the World Cup qualifiers Ozbash.

I'm not as confident as pepe, I remember 1982, but it does look pretty damn good. I think it's time to boot the Kingz too. Bugger helping them beat us. lol

 

[Mel§tar]

WIth Soccer Australia constantly (allegedly) reforming the NSL, it may only be a matter of time before the Kingz are shown the door, depending on the number of teams SocAus want in the comp.

About a year and a half ago, SocAus ranked all 14 teams in the NSL at the time, in order to cut the comp down to 12. The Kingz were ranked outside the 12, but due to an agreement with FIFA, were automatically included. However, to the best of my knowledge that agreement is over at the end of the current NSL season.

 

[EYE_EYE_SPASMODIC]

Train joke&lt;o>&lt;/o> <span>&lt;o>&lt;/o></span> <span>&gt; Sitting together on a train, travelling through the Swiss Alps,were a
New
&gt; &gt; </span>&lt;st1lace><span>Zealand</span>&lt;/st1lace><span> guy, an Australian guy, a young blonde lady and a little old
lady.
&gt; &gt; The train goes into a tunnel &amp; a few seconds later there's the sound of
a
&gt; &gt; loud slap. When the train emerges from the tunnel, the New Zealander
&gt; &gt; has a big red hand print on his cheek. No one speaks.
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; The old lady thinks: That New Zealander must have groped the blonde in
the
&gt; &gt; dark, and she slapped his cheek.
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; The blonde thinks: That New Zealander must have tried to grope me in
the
&gt; &gt; dark, but missed and fondled the old lady. She slapped his cheek.
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; The New Zealander thinks: That Australian must have groped the blonde in
&gt; &gt; the dark. She tried to slap him but missed and got me instead.
&gt; &gt;
&gt; &gt; The Australian thinks: I can't wait for another tunnel, so I can smack
&gt; &gt; that KIWI again.
&gt; &gt;
</span>

 

[ozbash]

lol

we will still get in ahead of you in 2006

 

[ali]

I agree that the Kingz must be chopped from the NSL, as NZ must now be our mortal enemies.
Whilst I am stoked that we are almost certs for the next world cup, a tournament which I will strongly consider going to, and believe it is a bit of a joke that we get such an easy passage. Realistically, we are only boarderline to be considered to be one of the best 32 nations in the world, and they have given us by far the easiest route to the 2006 world cup than all other nations. Why they don't merge Oceania and Asia is amazing. Kick the Arabs out of Asia and let them play with Africa. Thus Asia is more east oriented, and we can join in. That is a far fairer way than giving an aoutomatic spot to a federation, with only 1 boarderline world class team.
If I was south american I'd be spitting chips.

 

[imported_E_A__]

If I was south american I'd be spitting chips.

And you'd have an unnatural attraction to Llamas.

Bugger South America. Their teams get 3 months with their best available players to try and qualify. We're lucky to get one practice match against a High School under 15's, a qualifying series against the 203rd, 204th, 205th and 206th ranked teams in FIFA, then two matches against New Zealand. Once that's out of the road, we're thrown in against a team that has match practice coming out their ears and has been given a second chance that they probably don't deserve.

Screw 'em.

 

[EYE_EYE_SPASMODIC]

EA THATS THE FIST THING YOU'VE SAID THAT I AGREE WITH

 

[EYE_EYE_SPASMODIC]

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&lt;INPUT class=radio type=radio value=2 name=answer>Asia (4.5)
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[Mel§tar]

Well said EA... add to that, that half the Aussie players are then thrown in for either the NZ match, or the first proper game. They're 'too good' to play 203rd, 204th, etc, or 'cannot' be released from their Clubs to play in the practice matches.

 

[MistyBee9-11]

. Kick the Arabs out of Asia and let them play with Africa

Ali, we can't alter geography, I'm afraid. The Middle East is in Asia. Just because all the continents are of unequal populations doesn't mean Fifa can change it. Otherwise, Asia would be in 2 groups, and oceania would be absorbed into the south eastern biyt with the filipinos, Indonesians and Malasians.

This decision is not automaically good. The first thing is that Soccer Australia will miss the huge qualifying game that backs the MGC and rates it's ciot off - hence misses much needed revinue. To compensate., we have to get the socceroos to be 'tournament ready', and that means battling overzealousEuropean clubs for the servies of our best players. Maybe if we say to each player that a World Cup berth would be based upon their turning out for Oz in the previous 5 internationals, or something similar?