Sydney: On Tuesday, young attacker Garang Kuol, who recently joined Newcastle United, was named to Australia’s World Cup team, while key midfielder Tom Rogic was left out.
Another unexpected absence was Australian striker Adam Taggart, who lives in Japan and has six goals in 16 Socceroos games. Taggart was a mainstay of their qualification campaign.
This made room for Kuol of the Central Coast Mariners, who will move to St James’ Park in January.
Kuol, 18, became the youngest Socceroo since Harry Kewell in 1996 when he made his Australia debut against New Zealand in September.
But he has but to begin a sport for his A-League side, with Arnold possibly to use him as an affect participant off the bench.
Former Celtic superstar Rogic withdrew simply earlier than Australia’s crunch World Cup qualifiers in May, citing non-public reasons, and has due to the fact that struggled to make an affect at new membership West Bromwich Albion.
Veteran goalkeeper Mitch Langerak used to be additionally not noted regardless of being in career-best shape for J-League membership Nagoya Grampus and broadly considered as the quantity two in the back of skipper Mat Ryan.
Instead, Arnold opted for Danny Vukovic, alongside with Andrew Redmayne, a hero in Australia’s penalty shootout win over Peru that verified their location in Qatar.
Australia are in Group D and open their marketing campaign in opposition to France earlier than assembly Tunisia and Denmark.
FIFA WORLD CUP ALL TEAMS BY GROUPS
Australia World Cup squad:
Goalkeepers: Danny Vukovic (Central Coast Mariners, Australia), Andrew Redmayne (Sydney FC), and Mathew Ryan (FC Copenhagen, Denmark).
Defenders includes Craig Goodwin of Adelaide United, Milos Degenek of Columbus Crew, Thomas Deng of Aibirex Niigata, Joel King of Odense Boldklub, Nathaniel Atkinson of Hearts, Fran Karacic of Brescia, Aziz Behich of Dundee Utd of Scotland, and Milos Degenek of Columbus Crew.
Aaron Mooy of Celtic, Jackson Irvine of St. Pauli, Ajdin Hrustic of Hellas Verona, Bailey Wright of Sunderland, Cameron Devlin of Hearts, Riley McGree of Middlesbrough, and Keanu Baccus of St. Mirren are all midfielders.
Forwards include Garang Kuol (Central Coast Mariners/AUS), Jason Cummings (Central Coast Mariners), Mitchell Duke (Fagiano Okayama/JPN), Mathew Leckie (Melbourne City), Martin Boyle (Hibernian/SCO), and Awer Mabil (Cadiz/ESP).