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Australian Socceroos in South Africa 2010

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Australia was one of the first teams to qualify for the 2010 World Cup, gaining their place in June 2009.

2010 World Cup Qualifiers

Australia is now part of the Asian Qualifying Competition. Australia was in one of five groups of four, with other nations of China, Iraq and Qatar. The top two from each group went through to the Fifth - and final - round.

World Cup Draw

In the world cup draw in December 2009, Australia was drawn in Group D, with Germany, Serbia and Ghana, in what has been described as a difficult draw, though it was probably not the worst group. Their opening match will be against Germany. This is a rematch of Australia's first ever World Cup encounter whihc was against West Germany in 1974.

• June 14 Germany v Australia
• June 19 Ghana v Australia
• June 24 Australia v Serbia

Possible Squad

These are some of the names of current or recent Australian players. Many of these will hopefully be around in 2010 for when Australia again make it to the World Cup playoffs.

John Aloisi Michael Beauchamp Marco Bresciano Tim Cahill Scott Chipperfield Ante Covic Jason Culina Brett Emerton Vince Grella Zeljko Kalac Josh Kennedy Harry Kewell

Mark Milligan Craig Moore Lucas Neill Tony Popovic Mark Schwarzer Josip Skoko Mile Sterjovski Archie Thompson Mark Viduka Luke Wilkshire

Related Pages

• Index to Australia at the World Cup