Australia win Asian Cup

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perrymanlegend

perrymanlegend

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Not sure whether anyone is aware or but Australia won the Asian Cup for the first time today beating South Korea 2-1 AET.
Our former player Massimo Luongo scored the opening goal right on half time, with SK getting the equaliser in the second minute of injury time - there were 3 mins allowed.
The second scored by James Troisi right at the end of the first period of ET proved to be the winner.
Luongo also received the MVP award for the tournament.
Goalkeeper award went to Matt Ryan who once had a trial with Spurs.
This won't be exciting to most of the posters here but right now Aussies are celebrating big time.<party>:emoticon-0167-beer::emoticon-0167-beer:
Cheers all!
 
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Well done to Luongo. <ok> I was quite surprised when we sold him and he appears to have done very well since then.
He'll be moving up the divisions soon, in my opinion, regardless of how his club does.
Nice to see another Spurs youth product doing well, even if it's not with us. Good sign.

Congratulations to the Aussies, too. Throw another shrimp on the barbie and all that.

Ryan was linked to a move to England again recently, as he's been doing well in Belgium, I believe.
The Scousers and ourselves, IIRC. They'd have more use for him, I'd have thought.
 
Yes saw Ryan linked to LFC , there's rumours floating already about big money bids lodged with Swindon for Luongo , might just be paper talk though.
But as you say PNP sure he won't be there much longer.
BTW thanks for the congrats.
 
The Australian continental tournament was proving a little dull, so they moved on to pastures new.

But give them credit: they have conquered the biggest continent by far.
 
KingHotspur said:
Since when was Australia in Asia?
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They left the Oceania group some years ago, due to the way that it used to do World Cup qualifiers.
They kept strolling through the games against the local sides and then facing some South American side in a play-off.
Beating the Cook Islands 33-0 or something doesn't prepare you for facing Columbia.

Sadly for them, FIFA changed it almost as soon as they left! <laugh>
That's why New Zealand get into tournaments nowdays. Got battered by Mexico last time out, though.
 
PleaseNotPoll said:
They left the Oceania group some years ago, due to the way that it used to do World Cup qualifiers.
They kept strolling through the games against the local sides and then facing some South American side in a play-off.
Beating the Cook Islands 33-0 or something doesn't prepare you for facing Columbia.

Sadly for them, FIFA changed it almost as soon as they left! <laugh>
That's why New Zealand get into tournaments nowdays. Got battered by Mexico last time out, though.
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The OFC playoff rotates between federations: in 1998 they lost to Iran (AFC), in 2002 they lost to Uruguay (CONMEBOL), in 2006 they beat Uruguay (CONMEBOL again), in 2010 New Zealand beat Bahrain (AFC), and in 2014 New Zealand got teabagged by Mexico (CONCACAF).
 
I'm getting old,I guess.Couldn't care less about the Asia Cup,the Africa Cup or the Stupid Bowl!
 
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