Posts Tagged "Pim Verbeek"

Six years ago at the UEFA Euro 2004 Championships, Germany took an ageing squad which started brightly by drawing with the Netherlands.

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You’ve heard it more than once or twice before: ‘Hindsight is a virtue’ or ‘hindsight is a beautiful thing’.

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It will go down as one of the greatest victories in Australian sports history, but the Socceroos’ 2-1 win over Serbia this morning is tinged with regret. Despite gaining the three points required, Australia were agonisingly knocked out of the World Cup on goal difference.

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What an effort. It was a victory and an extremely good one. The Socceroos may be out of the World Cup and we all love a winner, but we couldn’t have asked for more from Pim Verbeek’s men in the final group game against Serbia.

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Australia’s search for a new coach is set to intensify after the World Cup, with names like Paul Le Guen already linked to the Socceroos’ top job. Plenty has been learned by Australia’s performances on the pitch. But just as much can be gleaned from the drama off it.

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The Socceroos’ search for a new coach is set to heat up as teams begin exiting the World Cup, freeing up more potential replacements for Pim Verbeek.

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Talk, talk, talk. We’ve heard a lot of it from the Socceroos at this World Cup. They’ve talked about the referees, they’ve talked about the media. They’ve even talked about how they don’t want to talk. But when they run out against Serbia at Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit, their actions will speak louder than any [...]

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Did Pim Verbeek pick enough strikers? The first question the Socceroos coach was asked after selecting his 23-man World Cup squad will finally be answered in Australia’s last group match against Serbia in Nelspruit on Wednesday (0430 Thursday AEST).

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Australian sporting history thrives on numbers. 99.94 was the average of Sir Donald Bradman, 1,360 goals was Tony Lockett’s figure and the “Woodies” chimed in with 11 doubles grand slams.

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On the eve of this, what could be some sort of World Cup Alamo for the Socceroos, it is important for us to have a look at how we have stacked up, and I am referring to the entire World Cup process, from Aloisi’s penalty-inspired-nudie-run, until now.

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The Socceroos look set to gamble on Melbourne Heart centre-back Michael Beauchamp for the biggest game of his career as suspended Craig Moore’s World Cup replacement.

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If I’m to be honest, this is the column I had really hoped to write last week. Obviously, a less than impressive Socceroos and a rampant if out-scrummed Wallabies outfit put paid to that.

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After two World Cup games, it is quite noticeable that Australia coach Pim Verbeek has been copping a bit of flak from a variety of quarters, especially after the performance against Germany.

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This column was going to be exclusively about the Socceroos’ gutsy performance against Ghana, but it would be remiss of me to ignore an even more impressive performance by the New Zealand All Whites to hold out defending champions Italy in the upset of the tournament.

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It took until the 64th minute for Japan coach Takeshi Okada to react to his side going a goal down against the Netherlands, and even then it was only to take off his team’s most effective player. Such is the 2010 World Cup, where conservative tactics rule and a paralysing fear strikes at the heart [...]

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Socceroos coach Pim Verbeek has made it clear Australia need a Balkanic eruption against Serbia to have any chance of avoiding the World Cup exit door.

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It has been reported that before Australia’s match against Germany, a South African wanted to watch the Socceroos instead of the regular gospel show that his family would watch every week. In response to this, his family beat him to death. It seemed harsh. Judging by the match last night at Royal Bafokeng, Australia is [...]

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Maybe it’s a bit soon to conduct the post-mortem – after all the patient isn’t actually dead yet, a couple of good results and the Socceroos can still advance fair (and square) into the knock out stages – but I still think we should give some consideration to what happens next.

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When Harry Kewell got sent off for the now infamous handball, it showed that the rules of the game need some changing.

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Harry Kewell’s football life is more dramatic – and even more of a page-turner – than any great work of fiction.

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