Written by Thomas Esamie and Nick Guoth
| Australia engaged in it's usual Oceanic adventure with one significant difference. This time New Zealand had already qualified by hosting the 1999 U17 World Cup, so Australia, providing it won through Oceania, would have to play off against Asian opposition as well to get across the Tasman Sea. | ||||
| Played : May 1 | Venue : Fiji | |||
| Australia Matthew Milosevic, Radoslav Culibrk, Shane Cansdell-Sherriff, Aaron Goulding, Mark Byrnes, Shane Lockhart, Jade North (Joe di Iorio 53), Wayne Srhoj, Lucas Pantelis, Louis Brain, Scott McDonald (Dylan Macallister 53) Goals : Brain 50, DiIorio 53 |
2 | - | 1 | Fiji (lineup unknown) Goal : Rodu Ratu Marika 20pk |
| Coach : Les Scheinflug (Australia) | ||||
| Played : May 3 | Venue : Prince Charles Park, Nandi, Fiji | |||
| Australia Jess Kedwell-vanStratten, Shane Cansdell-Sherriff, Aaron Goulding, Steve Laurie, Mark Byrnes, Radoslav Culibrk, Lucas Pantelis (Iain Fyfe 65), James Johnson, Louis Brain (Scott McDonald 46), Dylan Macallister, Joe di Iorio (Fabian Lettieri 48) Goals : Pantelis 14pk, Di Iorio 18, 23, 34, Macallister 68, Cansdell-Sherriff 78, McDonald 80, Johnson 85 |
8 | - | 0 | Papua New Guinea (lineup unknown) |
| Coach : Les Scheinflug (Australia) | ||||
| Played : May 5 | Venue : Fiji | |||
| Australia (lineup unknown) Goals : North 16, Johnson 32, McDonald 37, 43, 47, Fyfe 54, Saric 57, 71 |
8 | - | 0 | Cook Islands (lineup unknown) |
| Coach : Les Scheinflug (Australia) | ||||
| Played : May 7 | Venue : Fiji | |||
| Australia Jess Kedwell-vanStratten, Shane Lockhart (Mark Byrnes 60), Steve Laurie, Aaron Goulding, Iain Fyfe, Anthony Doumanis, James Johnson, Wayne Srhoj (Jade North 46), Dylan Macallister, Mislav Saric, Scott McDonald (Joe di Iorio 60) Goals : Goulding 15, Doumanis 19, 41, 53pk, 87, McDonald 22, 26, 38, Johnson 46, Saric 49, 79, Di Iorio 75, 78, 83, 90 |
15 | - | 0 | American Samoa (lineup unknown) |
| Coach : Les Scheinflug (Australia) | ||||
| I don't know if Mislav and Ante Saric are the same person, he wasn't even on the squad list...gah | ||||
| Played : May 10 | Venue : Fiji | |||
| Australia Matthew Milosevic, Shane Lockhart, Mark Byrnes, Aaron Goulding, Radoslav Cluibrk, Wayne Srhoj, Shane Cansdell-Sherriff (Fabian Lettieri 72), Jade North (Anthony Doumanis 62), Lucas Pantelis, Louis Brain, Dylan Macallister (Ante Saric 53) Goals : Macallister 20, 52, Brain 34, Goulding 35, 90, Pantelis 39, 49pk, Lettieri 72, Srhoj 77 |
9 | - | 0 | Vanuatu (lineup unknown) |
| Coach : Les Scheinflug (Australia) | ||||
| After all that Australia, not unsurprisingly, progressed to the Semi-final of the Oceania qualifiers. In this game one of the New Caledonians was sent off after his second yellow card offence early in the second half. Fiji defeated the Solomon Islands on penalties to again play Australia in the final. | ||||
| Played : May 12 | Venue : Fiji | |||
| Australia Jess Kedwell-vanStratten, Shane Lockhart, Aaron Goulding, Mark Byrnes, Wayne Srhoj (James Johnson 64), Shane Cansdell-Sherriff, Iain Fyfe, Jade North, Lucas Pantelis, Louis Brain (Scott McDonald 46), Dylan Macallister (Joe di Iorio 53) Goals : North 3, 74, Srhoj 9, Cansdell-Sherriff 49, McDonald 54, 64, 68, Pantelis 81 |
8 | - | 0 | New Caledonia (lineup unknown) |
| Coach : Les Scheinflug (Australia) | ||||
| Fiji is, to my mind at least, the team most likely to stop this Australia-New Zealand domination of Oceania. The first up game for Australia should prove this to be more than just fancy talk and while I like Australia winning it gets a bit tedious when the biggest point of interest is not which team scores the most goals but which Australian scores the most goals. This final shows Fiji still have a little way to go.... | ||||
| Played : May 14 | Venue : Churchill Park, Lautoka, Fiji | |||
| Australia Jess Kedwell-vanStratten, Shane Lockhart, Aaron Goulding (Stave Laurie 78), Mark Byrnes, Shane Cansdell-Sherriff, Wayne Srhoj (James Johnson 64), Jade North, Lucas Pantelis, Scott McDonald, Louis Brain (Joe di Iorio 60), Dylan Macallister Goals : McDonald 20, Cansdell-Sherriff 24, Di Iorio 65, 89pk, Macallister 82 |
5 | - | 0 | Fiji (lineup unknown) |
| Coach : Les Scheinflug (Australia) Attendance : 5000 | ||||
| The Joeys went into camp for a spot of training and while these matches amount to little more than glorified training drills they are included for the sake of completeness. The result of this particular match is unknown. | ||||
| Played : July 13 | Venue : Canberra | |||
| Australia (lineup unknown) Goals : |
u | - | u | ACT Academy of Sport (lineup unknown) Goals : |
| Thankfully slightly more is known about this match against a local Canberra club side. | ||||
| Played : July 15 | Venue : Canberra | |||
| Australia (lineup unknown) |
0 | - | 0 | Belconnen United (lineup unknown) |
| Having got through the Oceania bit Australia were to face Bahrain....and eventually did. The original dates of the match, May 22 and June 4, was delayed by Bahrain who contacted FIFA claiming they were unable to field a team. Ludicrously FIFA simply accepted this and allowed the re-scheduling of the games to the inconvenience of Australia who had prepared for the original dates at some cost. The final sting was that this was brought up only days before match was due to be played. | ||||
| Played : August 14 | Venue : Bruce Stadium, Canberra | |||
| Australia Jess Kedwell-vanStrattan, Shane Lockhart, Shane Cansdell-Sherriff, Aaron Goulding, Mark Byrnes, Jade North, Joseph Di Iorio, Lucas Pantelis (Joshua Kennedy 82), Scott McDonald (Dylan Macallister 62), James Johnson (Louis Brain 38), Wayne Srhoj Goals : Di Iorio 16, Byrnes 37 |
2 | - | 2 | Bahrain Hussin Sanad, Sari Faraj, Sultan Maboob (Abdulla Isa 90+), Husain Ali, Adel Al Noaimi, Anwar Yusuf, Husain Salman (Isa Bahram 71), Aziz Saad, Ahmed Hassan (Aala Hubail 46), Mahmood Razak, Adel Abbas Goal : Salman 27 |
| Coach : Les Scheinflug (Australia),
Mubarak Juhar (Bahrain) Referee : Lubos Michel (Slovakia) Linesmen : Vladimir Suchy, Martin Balko (Slovakia) Attendance : 1000 | ||||
| Squad listing | ||||
| Despite the belief of the hosts that the hot conditions would be a decisive factor the Australians managed to win this match to take out the tie 3-1 and progress to the World Cup for Under 17s to be held in New Zealand later this year to face Brazil, Germany and Mali in Group C. | ||||
| Played : August 27 | Venue : National Stadium, Bahrain | |||
| Bahrain (lineup unknown) |
0 | - | 1 | Australia Jess Kedwell-vanStrattan, Shane Lockhart, Shane Cansdell-Sherriff (Gavin Hartge 90), Aaron Goulding, Mark Byrnes, Jade North, Lucan Pantelis (Iain Fyfe 68), Wayne Srhoj, Louis Brain, Scott McDonald (Joshua Kennedy 75), Joe Di Iorio Goal : Brain 44 |
| Coach : Les Scheinflug (Australia),
Mubarak Juhar (Bahrain) Referee : Linesmen : Attendance : | ||||
| Squad listing | Match Report by Bahrain Tribune Match Report by Gulf Daily News | |||
| The Joeys went on a tour of South America ahead of their World Cup campaign. | ||||
| Played : October 14 | Venue : Montevideo, Uruguay | |||
| Uruguay (lineup unknown) Goal : unknown 18 |
1 | - | 1 | Australia (lineup incomplete) Louis Brain, Lucas Pantelis, Scott McDonald, Dylan Macallister, Jade North, Joe di Iorio Goal : di Iorio 88 |
| Squad listing | ||||
| The Joeys went on a tour of South America ahead of their World Cup campaign. | ||||
| Played : October 17 | Venue : Uruguay | |||
| Uruguay (lineup unknown) Goal : unknown 20, 89 |
2 | - | 1 | Australia Jess Kedwell-van Stratten, Adrian Madeschi, Mark Byrnes, Aaron Goulding, Jade North, Lucas Pantelis (Iain Fyfe 81), Dylan Macallister (James Johnson 37), Wayne Srhoj, Louis Brain, Joshua Kennedy (Scott McDonald 45 (sent off 64)), Joe di Iorio (sent off 67) Goal : North 44 |
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| The Joeys went on a tour of South America ahead of their World Cup campaign. | ||||
| Played : October 20 | Venue : Montevideo, Uruguay | |||
| Nacional (lineup unknown) |
0 | - | 7 | Australia Matthew Milosevic, Shane Lockhart, Mark Byrnes, Aaron Goulding (Jade North 45), Iain Fyfe, Lucas Pantelis, Louis Brain, James Johnson, Anthony Doumanis (Wayne Srhoj 50), Scott McDonald (Joshua Kennedy 55), Joe di Iorio Goals : Byrnes 16, 41, di Iorio 19pk, 35, McDonald 22, Kennedy 58, 60 |
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| The Joeys went on a tour of South America ahead of their World Cup campaign. | ||||
| Played : October 22 | Venue : Santiago, Chile | |||
| Colo Colo (lineup unknown) Goals : unknown 13, 26 |
2 | - | 4 | Australia Matthew Milosevic (Jess Kedwell-van Stratten 45), Shane Lockhart, Mark Byrnes, Aaron Goulding (James Johnson 45), Jade North, Lucas Pantelis, Louis Brain, Wayne Srhoj, Iain Fyfe, Joe di Iorio (Joshua Kennedy 67), Scott McDonald Goals : Byrnes 4, McDonald 57, 71, di Iorio 66 |
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| The Joeys went on a tour of South America ahead of their World Cup campaign. | ||||
| Played : October 25 | Venue : Chile | |||
| Universidad de Chile (lineup unknown) Goal : unknown 34 |
1 | - | 1 | Australia Jess Kedwell-van Stratten, Shane Lockhart, Mark Byrnes, Aaron Goulding, Jade North, Lucas Pantelis, James Johnson, Wayne Srhoj, Anthony Doumanis, Joe di Iorio (Joshua Kennedy 58), Scott McDonald Goal : McDonald 83 |
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| The Joeys went on a tour of South America ahead of their World Cup campaign. | ||||
| Played : October 27 | Venue : Santiago, Chile | |||
| Universidad Catolica (lineup unknown) Goal : unknown 29, 79 |
2 | - | 1 | Australia Jess Kedwell-van Stratten, Shane Lockhart, Mark Byrnes, Aaron Goulding, Jade North, Lucas Pantelis, James Johnson, Wayne Srhoj (Joshua Kennedy 56), Anthony Doumanis, Scott McDonald, Joe di Iorio Goal : Pantelis 78 |
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| The Joeys went on a tour of South America ahead of their World Cup campaign. Australia were due to play 2 matches against their Argentine counterparts at this stage, however they were probably too scared and Australia were presented with this match. The first goal came after just 29 seconds. | ||||
| Played : October 31 | Venue : Mar del Plata, Argentina | |||
| Argentine Southern Select XI
(lineup unknown) |
0 | - | 5 | Australia Jess Kedwell-van Stratten (Matthew Milosevic 45), Adrian Madeschi (Shane Lockhart 45), Mark Byrnes (Iain Fyfe 45), Aaron Goulding, Jade North, Shane Cansdell-Sherriff, Dylan Macallister, Bradley Groves, Lucas Pantelis (James Johnson 45), Joe di Iorio (Joshua Kennedy 45), Scott McDonald (Anthony Doumanis 45) Goals : McDonald 1, 39, Pantelis 22, Cansdell-Sherriff 37, Macallister 65 |
| Squad listing | ||||
| The Joeys went on a tour of South America ahead of their World Cup campaign. | ||||
| Played : November 2 | Venue : Argentina | |||
| Independiente (lineup unknown) |
0 | - | 1 | Australia Jess Kedwell-van Stratten, Adrian Madeschi, Mark Byrnes, Aaron Goulding (Iain Fyfe 40), Jade North, Shane Cansdell-Sherriff, Dylan Macallister (Anthony Doumanis 65), Bradley Groves, Lucas Pantelis (James Johnson 60), Joe di Iorio (Joshua Kennedy 45), Scott McDonald Goal : McDonald 70 |
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| The Joeys final match of the tour was, finally, a meeting with the Argentine U17 team. | ||||
| Played : November 4 | Venue : Argentina | |||
| Argentina (lineup unknown) Goals : unknown 3, 5, 86 |
3 | - | 3 | Australia Jess Kedwell-van Stratten, Adrian Madeschi, Mark Byrnes, Aaron Goulding, Jade North, Shane Cansdell-Sherriff, Dylan Macallister (Iain Fyfe 73), Bradley Groves, Lucas Pantelis (Louis Brain 45), Joe di Iorio, Scott McDonald (Joshua Kennedy 83) Goals : Macallister 30, Byrnes 84, Srhoj 90 |
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| In the opening match the Aussies faced Brazil in very wet conditions but despite falling behind by two goals the Australians finished the match stronger. However not in front...:-). In the other group match Mali and Germany had a scoreless draw. | ||||
| Played : November 12 | Venue : Christchurch, New Zealand | |||
| Brazil Rubinho, Marquinhos, Ricardo, Eduardo, Anderson, Leo, Walker, Souze, Caca, Leandro (Wellington 92), Carlos Henrique Goals : Marquinhos 31, Ricardo 64 |
2 | - | 1 | Australia Jess Kedwell-van Stratten, Shane Cansdell-Sherriff, Aaron Goulding, Adrian Madaschi, Mark Byrnes, Jade North, Louis Brain, Joe di Iorio, Scott McDonald (Joshua Kennedy 65), Bradley Groves (Dylan Macallister 59), Wayne Srhoj Goal : Macallister 78 |
| Coach : Les Scheinflug (Australia),
Carlos Cesar Ramos Custodio (Brazil) Referee : Tomasz Mikulski (Poland) Linesmen : Konstantin Piskov (Bulgaria), Jean Marie Edeng Zogo (Cameroon) Attendance : 4500 | ||||
| Squad listing | Match Report by Tony Smith Match Report by Nick Guoth | |||
| Played : November 14 | Venue : Christchurch, New Zealand | |||
| Germany Jan Schlosser (Dennis Eilhoff 43), Florian Thorwart, Hannes Wilking, Florian Kringe (Daniel Niemann 74), Thomas Hitzlsperger, Florian Heller, Andreas Hinkel, Leonhard Haas, Michael Fink, Stefan Beckert, Andreas Gorlitz (Markus Feulner 35) Goal : Haas 9 |
1 | - | 2 | Australia Jess Kedwell-van Stratten, Shane Cansdell-Sheriff, Aaron Goulding, Adrian Madaschi, Mark Byrnes, Jade North (Iain Fyfe 93), Louis Brain, Joe di Iorio (Lucas Pantelis 46 (Joshua Kennedy 82), Scott McDonald, Wayne Srhoj, Dylan Macallister Goals : Hitzlsperger 65og, Byrnes 70 |
| Coach : Les Scheinflug (Australia),
Erich Ruemoeller (Germany) Referee : Omar Abdulkadir Isaack (Tanzania) Linesmen : Jean-Marie Endeng Zogo (Cameroon), Dario Miguel Garcia (Argentina) Attendance : 4000 | ||||
| Squad listing | Match Report by Tony Smith Match Report by Nick Guoth | |||
| Australia, with this victory, managed to win top spot in the competition, all three other games in the group ended in goalless draws. They went onto face Qatar in the quarterfinals. | ||||
| Played : November 17 | Venue : Christchurch, New Zealand | |||
| Mali Cheick Oumar Bathily, Mintou Doucoure, Ousmane Diakite, Dalla Mane Diallo, Amadou Diallo, Djibril Sidibe, Idrissa Kone, Mohamed Sidibe (Mamadou Diallo 73), Mamadou Diawara, Koly Kante (Abdoul Traore 73), Souleymane Diamoutene |
0 | - | 1 | Australia Jess Kedwell-van Stratten, Shane Cansdell-Sherriff, Aaron Goulding, Adrian Madaschi, Mark Byrnes, Jade North, Louis Brain, Scott McDonald, Bradley Groves (Joe di Iorio 66 (Iain Fyfe 86)), Wayne Srhoj, Dylan Macallister Goal : McDonald 23 |
| Coach : Les Scheinflug (Australia),
Fanyery Diarra (Mali) Referee : Carlos Alberto Batres Gonzales (Guatemala) Linesmen : Konstanton Piskov (Bulgaria), Dario Miguel Garcia (Argentina) Attendance : 5000 | ||||
| Squad listing | Match Report by Tony Smith Match Report by Nick Guoth | |||
| Played : November 21 | Venue : Christchurch, New Zealand | |||
| Qatar Salman Al Ansari, Abdullah Al Asseiri, Essa Al Kuwari, Fawaz, Meshal, Mohamed Yasser, Waleed, Hussain, Seydna Ali, Ibrahim Al Ghanim (Ibrahim Al Romaihi 65), Bilal (Eissa Gholom 90) |
0 | - | 1 | Australia Jess Kedwell-van Stratten, Aaron Goulding, Adrian Madaschi, Mark Byrnes, Jade North, Louis Brain, Lucas Pantelis, Scott McDonald (Joshua Kennedy 82), Bradley Groves (Joseph di Iorio 46), Wayne Srhoj, Dylan Macallister Goal : di Iorio 55 |
| Coach : Les Scheinflug (Australia),
Saeed Al Misnad (Qatar) Referee : Wolfgang Stark (Germany) Linesmen : Philip Sharp (England), Igor Sramka (Slovakia) Attendance : 3500 | ||||
| Squad listing | Match Report by Tony Smith Match Report by Nick Guoth | |||
| Australia went to a 2-0 lead only to see it whittled down to 2-2 (again!!) but after a goalless golden goal period a US miss gave the game to Australia in the penalty shootout and a rematch with Brazil. | ||||
| Played : November 24 | Venue : Christchurch, New Zealand | |||
| United States DJ Countess, Da Marcus Beasley, Nelson Akwari, Alex Vi, Kenny Cutler, Bryan Jackson (Adolfo Gregorio 105), Landon Donovan, Oguchi Onyewu, Kyle Beckerman (Abe Thompson 78), Jordan Cila (Bobby Convey 105), Seth Trembly (sent off 115) Goals : Donovan 36, Onyewu 52 Penalties : Donovan, Beasley (saved), Convey, Akwari, Thompson, Gregorio, Yi, Cutler (miss) |
2 asdet | - | 2 asdet | Australia Jess Kedwell-van Stratten, Shane Cansdell-Sherriff, Aaron Goulding, Adrian Madaschi, Mark Byrnes, Jade North, Louis Brain, Lucas Pantelis (Joe Di Iorio 46), Scott McDonald (Joshua Kennedy 69), Wayne Srhoj, Dylan Macallister Goals : Goulding 3, McDonald 35 Penalties : Byrnes, Di Iorio, Cansdell-Sherriff, Srhoj (saved), North, Macallister, Goulding, Kennedy |
| Coach : Les Scheinflug (Australia),
John Ellinger (United States) Referee : Byron Aldemar Moreno Ruales (Ecuador) Linesmen : Dario Miguel Garcia (Argentina), Tiejun Liu (China) Attendance : 6500 | ||||
| Squad listing | Match Report by Nick Guoth | |||
| This is the first appearance in a final for Australia in a World Cup (of any age group). The only other significant finals appearance for Australia in a FIFA event was the 1997 Inter-Continental Cup in Saudi Arabia. In that game Australia played Brazil and lost 6-0....at least this one went down to the line. Eventually it was settled at 8-7 on penalties to the Brazilians. | ||||
| Played : November 27 | Venue : North Harbour Stadium, Auckland, New Zealand | |||
| Brazil Rubinho, Bruno Leite, Marquinhos, Ricardo, Eduardo, Anderson, Leo, Walker, Caca (Wellington 75), Leonardo, Adriano (Souza 61) Penalties : Leonardo, Marquinhos (saved), Eduardo, Walker, Ricardo, Leo, Bruno, Souza, Wellington |
0 asdet | - | 0 asdet | Australia Jess Kedwell-van Stratten, Shane Cansdell-Sherriff (Iain Fyfe 93), Aaron Goulding, Adrian Madaschi, Mark Byrnes, Jade North, Louis Brain, Lucas Pantelis (Joe Di Iorio 55), Scott McDonald (Joshua Kennedy 99), Wayne Srhoj, Dylan Macallister Penalties : Byrnes (miss), Di Iorio, Srhoj, Madaschi, North, Macallister, Goulding, Kennedy, Fyfe (saved) |
| Coach : Les Scheinflug (Australia),
Carlos Cesar Ramos Custodio (Brazil) Referee : Kyros Vasseras (Greece) Linesmen : Philip Sharp (England), Paul Smith (New Zealand) Attendance : 22859 | ||||
| Squad listing | Congrats to Joeys from various | |||