'I told you so.' 🇦🇺

Socceroos: FIFA World Cup Qualifiers: Third Round (Group C) First game vs Bahrain (Gold Coast, Australia)

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Shutting this blog down tonight. Can’t do much with it anymore.

Thank you to all the followers and apologies for not making myself more active. Goodbye tumblr.

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The Socceroos have been placed in Group I for the FIFA World Cup qualifiers with Lebanon, Palestine and Bangladesh.

Our first game will be at home to Bangladesh next month, with the city currently unknown.

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Congratulations Ange! Huge news for Australia!

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Some goofy boys photos 😅

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The squad is out!

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50 years of history vs 60,000 years in the land Down Under. Why the racism Croats?

So the Australia Cup Final happened between A-Leagues side Macarthur FC and second division club Sydney United 58, a club historically run by the Croatian community in Australia.

Macarthur FC won 2-0, but it didn't go down without controversy. The Sydney United fans, mostly third generation Croatians whos grandparents came just after World War II, disrespected the 'Welcome to Country' by the First Nations, the traditional owners of Australia for more than 60,000 years.

And that's not all, their fans did the N*zi salutes, waved the Ustase flag, and chanted fascists chants.

An absolute farce! They made football in this country look bad! Say No to Racism!

Congratulations to Macarthur FC however. Let's not forget them.

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FT: New Zealand 0-2 Australia.

A much better display in the second half produced not one, but two goals to finish off the two match series with New Zealand, as a dress rehearsal for the World Cup.

Up next, the World Champions France, at the World Cup.

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90'

3 minutes has been added on.

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83' Substitution for Australia.

Keanu Baccus replaces Connor Metcalfe to make his debut.

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81' GOAL! AUSTRALIA! 0-2!

Jason Cummings converts the penalty to score on his debut!

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79' PENALTY!

Jason Cummings shot was handballed!

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77' Chance.

Bill Tuiloma takes the free kick but goes wide.

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74' Triple Substitution for New Zealand.

Michael Boxall, Steven Old and Storm Roux come on.

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73' Substitution for Australia.

Garang Kuol replaces Marco Tilio to make his debut for Australia.

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70'

Marco Tilio gets a yellow card.

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67' Chance.

Alex Grieve almost took advantage of a defensive error from Australia, but Andrew Redmayne caught the shot.

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63' Triple Substitution for Australia.

Cameron Devlin, Ryan Strain and former Scottish international Jason Cummings makes their debuts.