Month: May 2019

Australia football team head coach Graham Arnold said that he will be using the next friendly game against South Korea to try some new players. He said that this will be a great opportunity for him to test the depth of the squad and to try some new things in the team.

Graham Arnold said that the objective of the Australian team is to make it to the 2022 World Cup and for that they have to go through the qualifiers that will be starting soon.

Australia football team head coach Graham Arnold said that he will be using the next friendly game against South Korea to try some new players. He said that this will be a great opportunity for him to test the depth of the squad and to try some new things in the team.

Graham Arnold said that the objective of the Australian team is to make it to the 2022 World Cup and for that they have to go through the qualifiers that will be starting soon.

He said that there are some new players that he wants to see in competitive matches and that he will be looking forward to the South Korean game to test them.

Graham Arnold said that the 2022 World Cup qualifiers will start in September and that he will have to strengthen his squad. He said that he needs to find new players that can help the team in case of injuries and also in case that players from the first team choose to retire.
He said that he needs to build a squad that will not only take them to the World Cup but also performs at the World Cup.

“Graham Arnold said that there are plenty of players in Australia that can represent the team“ and that it important that he tries them first. He said that he has his own playing style and “he wants the players“ that come in the team to play as he wants.

He said that the game against South Korea will be a great opportunity for him and that he wants to make the most out of it. He said that it is one thing to play in the training matches and another thing to play under pressure. He said that this will allow him to assess the new players and whether they can be trusted to represent Australia.

Graham Arnold, who is presently in charge of Australian senior men’s Football team, is not sure whether he can oversee the Australian junior team as well whom he oversaw on an interim basis in the Olympic qualification matches recently.

The matches of the junior team are mostly scheduled round about at the same time of the year when the senior team plays their matches, hence it’s virtually impossible for a coach to be in charge of both the teams and Arnold understands it.

Graham Arnold, who is presently in charge of Australian senior men’s Football team, is not sure whether he can oversee the Australian junior team as well whom he oversaw on an interim basis in the Olympic qualification matches recently.

The matches of the junior team are mostly scheduled round about at the same time of the year when the senior team plays their matches, hence it’s virtually impossible for a coach to be in charge of both the teams and Arnold understands it.

According to Arnold, he was not getting paid anything to coach the junior team for Olympic qualification and neither did he take up that job for money. The only reason he took up that job was because he has felt in the recent times that the senior team is lacking depth and he wanted to know why it is lacking depth and why the production line at the junior level is not churning out players for senior Football at a fast rate.

And now having worked with the junior team, he reckons that they probably don’t play as many games as they should and there are not enough camps either for the youngsters to work on their skills.

A couple of managers in the A League were not amused with the fact that Muscat took away their key players for the qualification tournament. Muscat reckons that the problem is with the Australian calendar because it doesn’t sync with the way the international Football is scheduled in the Asian region.

Arnold is of the opinion that the Australian association should probably think about slotting in an international break period during January because that’s the time when big international events often happen in Asia and if there is a break period in the league season, the clubs won’t have any trouble with the availability of the players.