The most important man in this Australian campaign for the World Cup is Guus Hiddink – one of the great football coaches.
Socceroos
A Uruguayan date with destiny, reloaded
At the Centenario stadium in Montevideo on Saturday evening (Sunday morning AEDT) football will be doing the talking as Australia attempts to break a 30-odd year hoodoo and qualify for World Cup 2006.
Socceroo stars unscathed ahead of Uruguay deciders
While all eyes in the UK were fixed on Manchester United’s 1-0 home win over Chelsea overnight, Australia’s gaze was occupied by the weekend form of key Socceroos.
New dawn for soccer, or same old sunset?
It comes around every four years to tease and torment. The bitter-sweet play-off for a berth in the World Cup that, as ever, has Australian soccer holding its breath. And yet again Uruguay stands in the way.
Socceroos await their final World Cup hurdle
After the weekend’s World Cup qualifying results in South America failed to determine the play-off picture, Australia’s final World Cup challenge against the fifth-placed South American team – either Colombia, Uruguay or Chile – won’t be known until Thursday.
