Socceroos vs Brazil: International football live scores, blog

Stavros although your first post was pure trollery you do have somewhat of a point,sure our National football side is affected because there is Union,League,AFL and to a lesser extent cricket to compete with but every National side has the same problem.Even AFL's talent pool is affected believe it or not,1 player in the whole of NSW/QLD was deemed good enough to make it on the books of an AFL side in the last draft,maybe the top athletes are playing other sports.

Titus - I respect what you are saying but I don't agree. My info is that academies are targeting athletic kids first, with the view that they will then teach them how to play. This is in England anyway. I also thing Rooney, Messi and Maradona would have made sensational Aussie rules players. There have been plenty of small players that have made it. To me it all goes back to outstanding natural sporting ability.

@Stavros The majority of AFL lads can't perform when they travel interstate to play ARules. They certainly won't have the mental strength to live & work in a foreign culture.

Fussball - and one of them can't even oust a 40 year old from the national team. Confirms what I have been saying, the talent is just not there. If there was no AFL or RL then hardly any of these guys in the socceroos would get a look in.

The difference is that in football you need to have developed the skills by the age of 5, they need to come as instinctively to you as walking. In AFL you can pick the skills up at any time, even into your late 20's. The problem isn't that football has a lack of players, it is that they aren't developing the skills early due mainly to a lack of football culture and very little exposure to the game at a competitive level. The AFL can just come along and pick up any kid in their teens who is tall enough and athletic enough. I don't know if Rioli would have been a good footballer, we will never know because he never developed the skills and never tested himself at the highest level. What I do know is that Neymar, Messi, Maradona, Rooney, Coutinho, Torres, etc would not have even got a look in at professional AFL had they played the game.

Al-Jazerra reported that traces of the mass demonstrations of a month or so ago were occurring around the stadium keeping people away ?

@Stavros There are 2 Aussies currently contracted to BVB who are, based on last years UCL, the 2nd best team in Europe. Put that in your pipe & smoke it ... or, do you ARules lads prefer to have your products compounded by a friendly pharmacist & put in a hypodermic?

Playing in the Champions eague is the highest level of football you can play at ,these "naturally talented" athletes you speak of are very big fish in a small pond.Might be interesting to watch Rioli play in the International series though,the closest he'll ever get to kicking a round ball around on the International stage,maybe Austraia might even beat the Irish.

Playing for Celtic is not getting to the top. If he was really talented then he would have been snapped up by a club in a big league.

I think we should be finding more Rogics never mind your Riolis.An 18 year old plucked from Belconnen United to be 1 of 8 young players from 75,000 around the world(much emphasis must be put on that word) to win the Nike chance competition and in a year and a half has found himself named in Celtics Champions League squad to face Barcelona,Milan and Ajax,so they are out there.Well done to Rioli for his achievements but getting to the top level of both sports is incomparable really.

Don't fear we now have the Australian Sport Party elected to the senate to save our sporting team

You are absolutely right. What the socceroos most definitely need is players like rioli who go missing in tight contests. You know, I propose we get these athletes to have a go at playing soccer to demonstrate your point. I believe this worked out well for all concerned last time. I know that where you live Stavros it is permanently a Victorian country town circa 1970 but elsewhere in the country the numbers show soccer as the most popular sport... wait, wait, I forgot you are absolutely right though it appears the bureau of statistics forgot to add the qualifier "for talentless hacks". Is anyone else slightly uncomfortable with the patronising use of the phrase "naturally taleted/gifted" to mean "indigenous"?

Again Holger shows he's not up to it or is something being lost in translation? http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/news/1166743/Osieck:-Socceroos-taught-valuable-lesson "We have come to Brazil to get an idea how football on this level is, and now we know and now it's up to us to analyse and to work on all the elements we have to improve on," Osieck said. Hey Holger, did you not see the Confed game where Brazil played all over Spain? Did you not get the impression that they would come out and hound us relentlessly until we coughed up the ball and then strike on a quick counter? Did you not feel it necessary to prepare for this fast paced, high pressing game from Brazil? What did you expect them to do, hand us the ball on a plate?? FFA, please save us!!!!

j binnie last night, was like watching the soccer's VS solomon islands, and we were the solomon islands or Fiji, it was hopeless. Heck maybe i am being too harsh, as under Hiddink the socceroos could only beat the solomon islands 2-1 in the solomon islands, but we dominated them at home. But hopeless we were.

LOL, this is the kind of comment you read and where you end up with your palm to your face and uttering the words McEnroe style "you surely can't be SERIOUS can you????" In this case reading "After 10 years of inept leadership, this is Fank Lowy’s TRUE LEGACY to Football!"

Precisely, a second chance---that also was in my thoughts as well.... 63 years of hurt to finally be put to bed ..

What really hurts is that notwithstanding the score line, there was nothing positive from that display by the Socceroos, not one minute of good play, and not a single player who deserved a pass mark. Things must change but I am not confident they will. A youth focus with a view to the Asian Cup 2015 which will be in our country (the eastern 1/3 of the mainland anyway) and where a great performance will be essential. We backed up off a poor WC to be runners-up in Qatar last time around. We won't win the WC - getting out of the group will be a bridge too far for this squad - but making the final and possibly winning the Asian Cup is a realistic and sensible goal. Taking a youthful side is a wiser move. To hell with swansongs, this is football not fairy land. Call me fair weather if you may but considering the expense and difficulty of travelling to and around Brazil, if the Socceroos continue like this I certainly won't be wasting time and money heading over there to watch them get walloped again.

Not to mention the 63 years of hurt after losing the 1950 title to Uruguay on home soil. The burden of expectation to correct that historical anomaly is immense.

No structure no pace etc. Yes I have said this as well, but sacking the coach to replace him with Mourinho is not going to suddenly turn our boys into a world class team. If all you have is third rate players to send out the result will be the same no matter who the coach is. A team of players who can't manage to break into the the best clubs in the world where on the other hand you have to face a national team who have first rate players playing for the best club teams in the world---why on earth are you so surprised we got slaughtered by arguably the best national team in the world playing on their home turf...? I can't believe so many of you here believe we should have come out of this with a win or a draw or even a narrow loss.. For me I'll accept the 6-0 bashing now and learn from it so we can do better when it is going to count at the group stages in the world cup.

Our sports biggest worry is being thrashed by a world power, your sports biggest worry is drugs, cheating, players setting midgets on fire, payers dumping disabled people out of wheelchairs, racism among top level administrators and media sweeping crowd violence under the rug.