Qantas Young Socceroos Head Coach Paul Okon has included thirteen players from the ranks of the Hyundai A-League Clubs and ten overseas based players in his 23-player squad for the upcoming AFC U-19 Championship which will be held in the United Arab Emirates from 1-17 November 2012. Having worked wi...

The Qantas Young Socceroos have been narrowly defeated 2-1 in the first of their two international friendly matches against the Portugal U-20 Men’s National team in Lisbon today. Going into the game, the Qantas Young Socceroos were without the services of Terry Antonis due to the Sydney FC midfielde...

Residents and businesses at around 25,000 premises in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania will be forced onto the National Broadband Network (NBN) in around 19 months, after copper and cable internet in their suburbs is switched off. The services will be switched off ...

Renewal of rivalries will be the main feature of the AFC Asian Cup Australia 2015™ qualifiers after the preliminary draw for Asia's flagship national team tournament was held here on Tuesday. Twenty teams were divided into five groups of four teams each. The top two teams from each group and the bes...

FOUR days ago Ellyse Perry was at Colombo's Premadasa Stadium hoisting aloft cricket's World Twenty20 trophy with her Australian teammates.Yesterday she was training in Parramatta with her new football club, Sydney FC. Tomorrow, given half a chance, she'd probably attempt to scale Everest, depending...

SF1 Iran 2-3 Uzbekistan Uzbekistan booked their place in the final of the 2012 AFC U-16 Championship after coming from a goal down to defeat tournament hosts Iran 3-2 in a pulsating semi-final encounter at the PAS Stadium on Wednesday. SF2 Iraq 1-5 Japan Japan entered into the final of the AFC U-16 ...

Qantas Young Socceroos Head Coach Paul Okon has selected a 23-player squad for the upcoming two international friendly matches against the the Portugal U-20 Men’s National team in Lisbon on the 11 & 14 October 2012. Ten overseas based players from England, Germany, the Netherlands and Scotland h...

A defender has been given a 22-month suspended prison sentence in Italy after admitting to scoring a deliberate own goal in Serie A in May 2011. Andrea Masiello, 26, who is currently without a club, confessed in court to intentionally diverting the ball into his own net while playing for Bari. His s...

SOCCEROOS boss Holger Osieck has resisted the urge to take a cut to his playing stocks after the humbling World Cup defeat in Jordan last month, today naming a largely unchanged squad for the crucial visit to Doha to play Iraq in the early hours of October 17 (AEST). David Carney’s miserable time in...

SOCCEROOS legend Harry Kewell has conceded his football career might be over, having struggled to find a new club since returning to England. Kewell, 34, has been looking for a new club for the past four months. Despite being linked with Premier League club Stoke, second-tier Blackburn and Middlesbr...

QF1 Iran 5-1 Australia AFC U-16 Championship hosts Iran outlined their championship credentials with an impressive 5-1 quarter-final win over Australia on Sunday that booked their place in the 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup. QF2 Iraq 3-1 Kuwait Iraq booked their place in the semi-finals of the 2012 AFC U-...

QF1 Iran 5-1 Australia AFC U-16 Championship hosts Iran outlined their championship credentials with an impressive 5-1 quarter-final win over Australia on Sunday that booked their place in the 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup. QF2 Iraq 3-1 Kuwait Iraq booked their place in the semi-finals of the 2012 AFC U-...

It's amazing how quickly a crisis passes at Real Madrid. A couple of weeks ago, after a second loss of the season, sections of the Spanish press were rubbing their hands in glee at the prospect of Rayo heaping more misery on Jose Mourinho. The Portuguese was at loggerheads with Florentino Perez-favo...

The Qantas Joeys hopes of qualifying for the FIFA U-17 World Cup 2013 were dashed last night when they were defeated 5-1 by host national IR Iran in their quarter-final of the AFC U-16 Championship 2012 in Tehran last night. In front of a partisan crowd of 3,850, the Iranian’s applied the pressure f...