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Be brave bold and resolute and go for goal: Socceroos have no other option
If ever there was a moment to seize the day, make a huge statement and defy the odds, it is at hand for the Socceroos.
If ever there was a moment to seize the day, make a huge statement and defy the odds, it is at hand for the Socceroos.
Fairfax Media football columnist Michael Cockerill has died aged 56.
Australia's World Cup dream hangs by a thread after the Socceroos went down 2-0 in Tokyo to a Japanese side that booked their place in Russia thanks to their victory in front of a packed and passionate home crowd.
After Australia's loss to Japan on Thursday night, the path to Russia in 2018 just became all that much murkier.
Awful, awful result for Australia. Japan are off to Russia, and the Socceroos now need to regroup and set their sites on Melbourne next week where they'll play Thailand.
Tim Cahill's Socceroos renaissance looks set to continue with a starting role in Saitama if striker Tomi Juric is ruled out of the World Cup qualifier against Japan.
City have already begun the international search to find an injury replacement for star striker Bruno Fornaroli, the club's top goalscorer for the past two seasons.
Newcastle Jets' veteran Nikolai Topor-Stanley says his hometown Canberra deserves more A-League action.
Melbourne City's star striker Bruno Fornaroli is set to miss the start of the A-League season and there are fears he may be sidelined for two months after injuring an ankle in the club's 3-2 FFA Cup final win over Hakoah Sydney.
Tom Rogic and Aaron Mooy are capable of bringing their best club form to the Socceroos at the same time, but coach Ange Postecoglou has warned it's easier said than done.
Sam Kerr, a nominee for the Best FIFA Women's Player of the Year award, is one of the headline acts in a strong Matildas squad named by coach Alen Stajic for the upcoming two-match series against Brazil.
Giant-killers Heidelberg United are looking to build on that reputation when they host Adelaide United in the FFA Cup quarter-final in mid-September.
The United Arab Emirates have inflicted a hammer blow to Saudi Arabia's World Cup hopes in a Group B result that would see Australia qualify with victory over Japan on Wednesday in Tokyo.
Melbourne City took a big step in the defence of their FFA Cup title with a 3-2 victory over Hakoah Sydney, while Western Sydney eased into the last eight with a comfortable 4-0 victory over Bentleigh Greens as the final set of round of 16 games took place on Tuesday night.
Newcastle Jets boss Lawrie McKinna says his club could fill A-League void in Canberra.
The Matildas are proving to be one of the hottest tickets in women's sport – and it is hardly surprising given their exploits in the past six weeks, when they won the Tournament of Nations in such spectacular style.
​Matthew Spiranovic has no plans to leave his Chinese second division club, even if it affects his Socceroos selection chances under coach Ange Postecoglou.
The Socceroos are taking "appropriate precautions" after North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan's north on Tuesday morning.
Socceroo Milos Degenek says local discontent with the Japanese national team is so intense some of his club teammates have told him they want Australia to win Thursday's crunch World Cup qualifier.
Canberra United have signed Matildas young gun Ellie Carpenter.
Liverpool have ripped apart woeful Arsenal in a 4-0 Premier League thumping at Anfield.
Aaron Mooy's Huddersfield have continued their spectacular start to life in the Premier League and will fancy their chances of adding to their seven points in a fortnight.
It's not quite in the class of the sudden death eliminators against Uruguay in 2001 and 2005 and Iran that fateful night at the MCG almost 20 years ago.
The strong performances in the early weeks of the European season by a couple of goal-scoring Socceroos, Aaron Mooy and Mathew Leckie, won't do the reputation of the A-League any harm at all.
Tom Rogic's Celtic FC will face the might of Bayern Munich and the financial clout of Paris Saint-Germain in the UEFA Champions League group stage.
​Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has returned to Manchester United on a year-year contract "to finish what I started," the 35-year-old announced in a club statement on Thursday.
Liverpool have overpowered Hoffenheim 4-2 at Anfield to ease into the Champions League group stages with a 6-3 aggregate playoff victory.
Victorian State League teams continue their fairytale run, as Heidelberg took the spoils in Sydney and South Melbourne lit up Lakeside to go through to the FFA quarter-finals, while Melbourne Victory stumbled to a 3-0 defeat at the hands of A-League rivals Adelaide.
Wayne Rooney has announced his retirement from the England national team, ending a 14-year stint in which he became the country's top goalscorer with 53 goals.
FIFA has issued a subtle reminder to the FFA that it is not a stakeholder in football's political reform process.
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