Tuesday, 17 April 2007

Socceroos squad for 2007 Asian Cup

With the first warm-up game against Uruguay in Sydney on June 2nd, focus starts to turn to the Socceroos Asian Cup squad.

New coach Graham Arnold is sure to continue along his path of renewal as Australian football looks to the future after the successful 2006 World Cup Campaign.
Inclusion of A-League players Mark Milligan(Sydney FC), Bruce Djite (Adelaide United), Danny Vidovic (Central Coast Mariners)would help the profile of the local A-League. Neil Kilkenny (Birmingham City) Brad Jones (Middlesborough) Carl Valeri (Grosetto) and Brett Holman (FC Nijmegan) could also give the squad a futuristic look.
There is still enough quality to win the tournament with the likes of Mark Viduka, Tim Cahill, Lucas Neill, Mark Scharwzer still around.

Here's my possible squad:

Goalkeepers
1 Mark Schwarzer (Middlesborough, England)
2 Brad Jones (Middlesborough, England)
3 Danny Vukovic (Central Coast Mariners, Australia)
Defenders
4 Lucas Neill (West Ham, England)
5 Michael Beauchamp (FC Nuremberg, Germany),
6 Scott Chipperfield (Basle, Switzerland)
7 Craig Moore (Newcastle United, England)
8 Mark Milligan (Sydney FC)
9 Patrick Kisnorbo (Leicester City, England)
10 Neil Kilkenny (Birmingham City, England)

Midfield
11 Mark Bresciano (Palermo, Italy),
12 Jason Culina (PSV Eindhoven, Holland)
13 Vince Grella (Parma, Italy)
14 Luke Wilkshire (Twente, Holland).
15 Tim Cahill (Everton, England)
16 Brett Emerton (Blackburn, England)
17 Carl Valeri (Grosseto, Italy)
18 Mile Sterjovski (Basel, Switzerland)
Forwards
19 Mark Viduka (Middlesborough)
20 John Aloisi (Alaves, Spain)
21 Harry Kewell (Liverpool, England)
22 Brett Holman (NEC Nijmegen, Holland),
23 Bruce Djite (Adelaide United) to replace Josh Kennedy if Kennedy is still injured.

Reserves
24 Archie Thompson
25 Josip Skoko
26 Nicky Carle
27 Michael Thwaites

Can this squad win the 2007 Asia Cup? What do you think?

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