The Roar's next home game is 17 Oct against Adelaide. This is 2 days after the Socceroos play Qatar at Lang Park (if that game goes ahead - International court decision due just before it). A day or two later Adelaide have to go to Uzbekistan for the Asian Champions semi.

Adelaide want the date changed. Click to continue reading...

An all-Japanese semi-final will take place in the AFC Champions League as defending champions Urawa Red Diamonds and Gamba Osaka were drawn together. Three clubs from Japan could have made it to the last four but Australia's Adelaide United beat Kashima Antlers 2-1 on aggregate to terminate any possibilities. Click to continue reading...

Rivaldo plays for Adelaide United's Asian Champions League Semi-Final opponents Uzbek side Bunyodkor.

And they thrashed Pierre Littbarski's Iranian side Saipa 7-2 on aggregate.

Out of interest how do you get from Uzbekistan to Adelaide for a Wednesday night game..for that matter the the other way as well:)

And you thought Perth Wellington was a long trip! Click to continue reading...

If you like your football full of passion, great skills, end to end excitement, two sets of pumped up fans, a full stadium and a Semi Final prize up for grabs you'd have loved the Adelaide United Kashima Antlers clash at Hindmarsh Stadium last night.

The Reds won 1-0 and made history becoming the first Aussie side into the Continents major football tournaments Semi Final. Click to continue reading...

Go ahead, name one club in the Uzbek League beside the one just below your line of sight. Can you? Doubt it. And if you can and don't live within the country's borders, it's time for a hobby. FC Bunyodkor, that club which made a big theatrical production out of Samuel Eto'o (and half of Barca, [...] Click to continue reading...

The AFC website mentions the former AEK midfielder in a few articles on its site. Rivaldo Scores at his AFC Champions League Debut The AFC also mentions Rivaldo in some other articles on the site. Click to continue reading...

Group A:Singapore,Bahrain,Iran,Uzbekistan Group B:Korea Republic,India,Indonesia,Syria Group C:China,Australia,Turkmenistan,Saudi Arabia Group D:Japan,Malaysia,UAE,Yemen Our boys have been drawn alongside giants Bahrain,Iran and Uzbekistan.I think we are in the hardest group of all.The team will be training in Japan to toughen up themselves for the competition. Click to continue reading...

Picture courtesy of Jakartacasual Our under-16 boys will be heading to Japan this Thursday for a 2 weeks intensive centralized training in preparation for the AFC Cup Final that will be held in Uzbekistan next month. However,they will miss eight players due to the 'O' and 'N' level examination.Chief coach,Masanaga Kageyama,is determine that his boys will show [. Click to continue reading...

If we've said it once, we've said it twice: the field of play is not a place for animals. Well Lucas Neill is doing his part to rid the pitch of these pests, as he did yesterday against Uzbekistan. At 1:10 of the above video, Lucas looks up, eyes his target, takes aim and fires [...] Click to continue reading...

Final phase World Cup Qualifier, md2, Uzbekistan 0 v Socceroos 1 TALK about a controlled, composed Socceroos performance. This was just about as good a start to the final phase of qualifiers as any Socceroos follower could have hoped for. Away from home, in fresh, yet ancient territory, against a team that hadn't lost a qualifier at home for 18 months, already chasing the likes of Japan and Click to continue reading...

Match 1 : World Cup 2010 Qualification: Uzbekistan are meeting Australia Wednesday September 10th.  Watch the Livestream and Highlights here Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today   Don`t forget to sign up 11×2.com - the next big football site   Click to continue reading...

FIFA World Cup Qualifier : Uzbekistan are meeting Australia Wednesday September 10th. Livestream and Highlights from the match at footiedb.com Do not forget to sign up on the next big football site 11×2.com:  Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today LIVESTREAM  Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today Click to continue reading...

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Sweden 0-0 Albania; Portugal 4-0 Malta; Hungary 0-0 Denmark; Latvia 2-1 Moldova; Israel 2-2 Switzerland; Greece 3-0 Luxembourg; Poland 1-1 Slovenia; Slovakia 2-1 No. Ireland; Wales 1-0 Azerbaijan; Germany 6-0 Liechtenstein; Turkey 2-0 Armenia; Spain 1-0 Bosnia-Herzegovina; Belgium 3-2 Estonia; Ukraine 1-0 Belarus; Croatia 3-0 Kazakhstan; England 2-0 Andorra; Lithuania 3-0 Romania; Austria 3-1 France; Serbia 2-0 Faroe Islands; Ireland 2-1 Georgia; Italy 2-1 Cyprus; Montenegro 2-2 Bulgaria; Macedonia 1-0 Scotland; Norway 2-2 Iceland. Click to continue reading...

The Eurpoean Socceroos looked good in nice cool conditions. They were a goal down early but still in the game. As we know the Dutch are a million miles away from their 1970s total domination, Total Football days, now they play the long balls to the speedy wingers just like the Roar...

The Socceroos were probably lucky to win the penalty, but it highlights how protected Mark Bosnich is given (see last weeks Roar v CCM) their goalie was given a red in a friendly - and Kennedy had already missed the ball. Click to continue reading...

Japan won away 3-2 in Bahrain, and in the big news Aussie opponents on Thursday our time Uzbekistan got flogged 3-0 by Qatar!

Fantastic result for Australia. Given we comfortably disposed of Qatar, if we can get a decent result in Tashkent on Thursday we could be off to a flyer.

Putting ourselves and Japan firmly in the driving seat for South Africa, even at this early stage. Click to continue reading...

New coach Mundari Karya has rang the changes to the Under 16 squad that recently underperformed at the ASEAN Championships here in Jakarta as he perpares his side for the upcoming AFC Under 16 Championships to be held in Uzbekistan next month.

A series of friendlies have also been prepared to get the side ready for a tough competition where they have been drawn with India, South Korea and Syria

06/09 v PS Urakan
11/09 v Persija Under 21
13/09 v Pelita Jaya
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Rivaldo finaly explains, in a little more detail, how and why he abandoned AEK for the football hinterland of Uzbekistan. A few things to note about this article. First, Bunyodkor general director Tavakkal Kadirovich is quoted as saying the negotiations took two months. SO basically as soon as last season was over [. Click to continue reading...

Credit goes where credit is due: FC Bunyodkor is not fucking around. Earlier in the summer you may remember they'd announced they had signed Samuel Eto'o on a six month contract, who went along with the ruse and even flew out to Uzbekistan for the royal treatment at the club's facilities before hunkering back to [. Click to continue reading...

ESPN here, and here is an AFP article with Rivaldo asking the fans' forgiveness but saying, esstially, money talks, bullsh-t walks... Goal.com coverage here, and here the British paper the Daily Mail rightly points out the irony in previously passing up stings at Tottenham and Bolton only to end up at that footballing mecca knows as Uzbekistan. Click to continue reading...

Rivaldo has rocked AEK Athens by telling the club he is leaving to take up a lucrative contract with Uzbekistan outfit FC Bunyodkor.








Lucrative Contract = Lifetime Supply of Uzbek "Super Bagels" Click to continue reading...

Tickets onsale next week - Football family Tuesday, general public Thursday.

Category A - $122 all tickets

Category B - $82 Adult, $42 Concession, $206 Family

Category C - $52 Adult, $27 Concession, $131 Family

And the its Brisbane Stadium - also know as Lang Park and Suncorp - so named due to Cup rules. Click to continue reading...

When I read the venues scheduled for the next phase of World Cup qualifying, I thought fantastic, two games in Sydney against Uzbekistan and Bahrain. I was a bit disappointed that the biggest fixture, the game against Japan, will be in Melbourne. Still, 100,000 packed into the MCG will be a sight to behold. Click to continue reading...

Alex Hleb's dream was to play for Barca.
Ronaldinho dreamed of playing for AC Milan.
Deco dreamed of playing for Chelski.
Dani Alves dreamed of playing in the blue and red Barca shirt.
Arshavin's dream is to swap Zenit for Barca.
Ronnie dreams of playing for Real Madrid.
Drogba dreams of playing for a different team every week. Click to continue reading...

Do you have a pinch of salt handy? Good, you're going to need it. Time for some more summer Transfer Talk... Real Madrid are interested in signing unwanted Barcelona striker Samuel Eto'o, despite the Cameroonian leaving the Bernabéu on very bad terms last time. I honestly think there's more chance of Eto'o going to Uzbekistan than [. Click to continue reading...

By Aries Everyone berated Alexander Hleb for predicting that Cesc Fabregas will eventually join Barcelona. It seems that his prophesy has come true in quite a strange way and much sooner than everyone anticipated. You may have heard that Samual Eto'o of Barcelona has been invited along with some other colleagues of his to visit Uzbekistan as guests of local club Kuruvchi. Click to continue reading...

There is no way Etoo is going to play in Uzbekistan. Click to continue reading...

The transfer news to report today is obviously Eto'o's on going flirtation with playing in Uzbekistan. Cue the Borat jokes. Or was that Kazakhstan? Otherwise, a Friday in mid-summer is a slow day, so we bring a little classic video for you to enjoy. Click to continue reading...

I read something the other day about some club in Uzbekistan claiming that they were on the verge of signing Samuel Eto'o and just dismissed it as the usual, desperate silly-season attempt to grab headlines by a club the size of Vern Troyer's nuts.

But something happened on the way the fantasyland. Click to continue reading...

Some transfer rumours are so bizarre they make you dizzy, and they don't come much dizzier than Samuel Eto'o to Uzbekistan side Kuruvchi. But that's what's in the news today. Let's all take a second to let that sink in... ... ..Kuruvchi's sporting director Bahtier Babayev claimed that: "Eto'o will arrive in Tashkent on Thursday and he will [. Click to continue reading...

AFTER his recent exploits in the ACL and at last year's Asian Cup, a little guttered there'll be no Yasuhito Endo at the Olympic Games. But for those of you who have been following the exploits of Uzbekistan's Kuruvchi in the ACL due to the quality of the likes of Djeparov and Kapadze, the news that they've been linked with Samuel Eto'o sure will have grabbed your attention. Click to continue reading...

Some news to read as you legally flip people off and drink from an unregistered keg in Belmar, New Jersey: WAG wannabes, dust off your fake nails, fake tans, fake personalities and spike heels. Cristiano Ronaldo is single again (Kickette) MLS: The mooches of the international transfer market (US Soccer Players) Arshavin: Growth stock, or [. Click to continue reading...

Ok, here's another news item you'll need to sit down to read ... and no, this isn't an April Fool's joke.

According to news reports, Uzbekistan League side Kuruvchi claim to have reached a deal to sign Barcelona and Cameroon striker Samuel Eto'o.

The Catalan giants have laughed off the news. Click to continue reading...

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Australia play South Africa at Loftus Road, Tuesday 19 August (Maybe Nick Ward will be returning?)

Football Federation Australia - South Africa and The Netherlands to face Qantas Socceroos Monday, 7 July 2008
The road to South Africa for the 2010 FIFA World Cup is being mapped out at Football Federation Australia (FFA) with the announcement today of two prestigious international matches in August and September to kick-off the next stage of the World Cup qualifying campaign as well as qualifiers for the 2011 Asian Cup, courtesy of FOXTEL. Click to continue reading...

14/01/09 Oman v Indonesia, Iran v Singapore, Jordan v Thailand, Malaysia v UAE
28/01/09 Indonesia v Australia, Singapore v Jordan, Thailand v Iran, India v Malaysia
14/11/09 Kuwait v Indonesia, Singapore v Thailand, Uzbekistan v Malaysia
18/11/09 Indonesia v Kuwait, Thailand v Singapore, Malaysia v Uzbekistan
06/01/10 Indonesia v Oman, Singapore v Iran, Thailand v Jordan, UAE v Malaysia
03/03/10 Australia v Indonesia, Iran v Thailand, Jordan v Singapore, Malaysia v India Click to continue reading...

Three facts about Uzbekistan:

It's the home of the mighty warrior, Tamurlaine, and the fabled city of Samarkand on the Silk Road. But get this, together with tiny Liechtenstein, the distinction of being one of the two sole doubly-landlocked countries in the world (in other words not only is it landlocked, but it is surrounded by other landlocked countries as well). Click to continue reading...