| Everyone who is an Australian should go and support | | | | team. Maybe Australia could have reached the finals |
| Team Australia in this year's FIFA World Cup hosted in | | | | four years ago. |
| South Africa. Australia has a great chance in the | | | | This year in 2010, the Socceroos coach known as Pim |
| current year to make it through its group. Australia has | | | | Verbeek has named a squad of 31 people. There are |
| made it into Group D. Other countries in this group are: | | | | a few familiar faces such as Marco Bresciano, Tim |
| Germany, Ghana and Serbia. | | | | Cahill, Harry Kewell and Mark Schwarzer. The |
| It is the 19th FIFA World Cup this year. The host nation | | | | Socceroos is what the Australian team is called. Tim |
| is South Africa and there has already been a lot of | | | | Cahill played magnificently in the previous cup. |
| talk about whether or not South Africa is a country fit | | | | Teams like Australia are sporting new soccer jerseys. |
| to host the cup. The decision has already been made | | | | Soccer jerseys have been made by famous |
| and countries from across the world who have | | | | manufacturers such as Adidas and Nike. They look |
| qualified will be playing soon. One of these teams is | | | | really nice and people love to sport them while |
| Australia. | | | | watching their favourite team play. Jerseys are a |
| Qualification for the cup started all the way back in | | | | great way to support your nation in this years major |
| August 2007. From a field of 204 FIFA national teams, | | | | sporting event. |
| only 32 passed qualification. The number of nations | | | | As mentioned previously, Australia are in Group D and |
| that competed in qualification was similar to that of | | | | will play against Germany, Ghana and Serbia. The first |
| those competing in the summer Olympic games. | | | | match the Socceroos will play is against Germany. |
| Millions of people around the world watch this event | | | | The match will be played on the 13th of June 2010. Six |
| live on their TV sets. With the help of the Internet, | | | | days later it will play against Ghana on the 19th. With |
| everyone with Internet access will be able to watch | | | | only a 3 day break it will then play against Serbia on |
| the major cup event. | | | | the 23rd. |
| Australia did pretty well in the previous World Cup | | | | Australia has a great chance to progress through this |
| hosted in Germany. They got through to the round of | | | | tough group. Two teams make it through every group |
| 16. The round of 16 was a knockout stage that | | | | and Germany seems very sure of getting through |
| consisted of 8 games and the loser getting kicked out | | | | Group D. Germany was the host nation in the previous |
| of the cup. Australia played Italy in this round of 16 and | | | | cup and will be looking to play just as well as it did last |
| lost with a score of zero to one. It was a very | | | | time. Germany ended up third which was a extremely |
| controversial game with lots of chatter about the Italian | | | | good effort. |
| team taking dives. | | | | In conclusion, all Australians should get behind the |
| Australia didn't make it into the quarter finals in 2006, | | | | Socceroos and wish them all the best for the 2010 |
| hopefully in 2010 they can pull off something amazing | | | | FIFA World Cup. Australia has a great chance to do |
| and get into the quarter finals. Back in 2006, Italy won | | | | better than it did back in Germany 4 years ago. Sport |
| the cup in Germany. If Australia had of won its round | | | | your own Socceroos soccer jersey and support the |
| of 16, the cup would have been won by some other | | | | Aussies in what will be a wonderful soccer cup event. |