Verbeek gets crafty ahead of Qatar clash

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Daily Dose 1.24.08
Published 1/24/2008 by Daryl at World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010
... football links from World Cup Blog, The Offside and beyond Carthage Eagles analysis (Tunisia Blog) Black Antelopes reaction (Angola Blog) What victory looks like (Egypt Blog) Turns out Kaka and Seedorf are related (Netherlands Blog) When Adebayor attacks (The Offside) 10 things you (maybe) didn’t know about Angola (football365) Does he realize it’s only 11-a-side? (Soccerphile) Plus, today on World Cup Blog: Guinea vs Morocco - ...

Australia’s 39-Man Squad
Published 1/30/2008 by Martha at The Offside
... | January 30th, 2008 When he announced his first call-ups a week ago, few expected new Australia coach Pim Verbeek to be quite so welcoming: He named 39 players to his squad ahead of next week’s World Cup qualifier against Qatar. Thirty. Nine. The squad is split almost exactly down the middle between the 20 A-League-based players, who will reportedly spend about a week in camp, and the 19 who ply their collective trade in Europe, the majority of whom won’t even arrive in Australia until at most 48 hours before the Qatar match. After training with his insanely unwieldy ...