A little perspective on the Socceroos
June 25, 2006Don’t worry - it’s not THAT kind of article. You know, the kind where the author tries to write something controversial just to draw attention to themselves and annoy everyone. The Socceroos are now into the Second round, and I thought that it’s important to appreciate what a great job that they’ve done so far.
Remember this: Win, lose or draw, all Soccer fans in Australia should be incredibly proud of what they’ve done. Here’s an extract from Paul Sheehan’s SMH article -
The terrifying prospect - can you imagine the general hype and ululation - is that Australia could survive tonight’s encounter. Australia came into the World Cup ranked only 44th in the official world rankings. If this was a tournament of the world’s 32 best teams, Australia shouldn’t even have been there. But, in order, Australia has beaten Uruguay (ranked 22), Greece (ranked 20), drawn with Holland (ranked 4), beaten Japan (ranked 18), lost narrowly to Brazil (ranked 1) and outplayed Croatia (ranked 23).
We had a draw the Number 4 team and were narrowly beaton by the Number 1 team in the world. We started off being ranked 44th but we beat the 18th ranked team.
Amazing.
