I'd like to take the opportunity to welcome another emerging soccer country to the club - the U.S., South Korea, and Turkey are recent inductees - Cameroon and Croatia are founding members of the (Least Expected, Never Taken Seriously Enough, Don't Have Our Hallowed Tradition, Couldn't Possibly Mount a Serious Threat) Club of Surprisingly Serious Kickers of A$$. SSKA salutes Australia's victory over England and looks forward to seeing the Socceroos in the next World Cup. http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/sport/0,5971,Sport^^TEXT^dailytelegraph,00.html Plus, I just love the cartoon in this paper.
Well yes we acn all say Australia has matured and has come of age. However we have beaten world class teams previously. before the WC2002 qualifiers we beat Uruguay 2-0 at home our ranking was 32 during 1997 but alas it turned into nothing. This is now the time Australia has stepped up from being the unkowns to the world class team that people in Australia strived to make it many years before. Teams mentioned in the "forgotten and not taken seriously" are being disrespected and need to teach the big boys a lession!