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The North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Kangaroos or colloquially the Roos, is a professional Australian rules football club. The men's team competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), and the women's team in the AFL Women's (AFLW). The Kangaroos also field a reserves men's team in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and women's ...
In December 2004, the Australian Soccer Association renamed itself Football Federation Australia (FFA) and announced an effort to rebrand association football as "football" rather than "soccer" in Australia. [21] The national team had been nicknamed "the Socceroos" by journalist Tony Horstead on a 1967 tour to South Vietnam. [22]
Similarly, the name is derived from a well-known symbol of Australia, in this case, the kangaroo. The words soccer and kangaroo are combined into a portmanteau word as soccer-roo; such as Olyroos for the Australia Olympic soccer team [114] or Hockeyroos for the Australian national women's hockey team.
Australia's 32-man preliminary squad was announced on 6 May 2018. [15] The squad was reduced to 26 players on 14 May, [ 16 ] then extended to 27 players on 28 May. [ 17 ] The final squad was announced on 3 June.
The Australian national rugby league team is nicknamed the Kangaroos. The Australia national rugby union team is nicknamed the Wallabies. The Australia national association football team (men's) is nicknamed the Socceroos. The Australia national under-23 football team plays Football at the Summer Olympics and is nicknamed Olyroos.
Australia women's national soccer team; Australia national soccer team may also refer to: Australia men's national soccer B team;
Mark Schwarzer is Australia's most capped player. The Australia men's national soccer team represents the country of Australia in international association football.It is fielded by Football Australia, the governing body of soccer in Australia, and competes as a member of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), which encompasses the countries of Asia, having previously been a part of the ...
Lucas Neill has the most captaincies of Australia, with 61. This article lists all the 'captains of the Australia national men's soccer team. The first Australia captain was Alex Gibb; he captained Australia in their first international match, against New Zealand on 17 June 1922. He went on to captain Australia on five further occasions ...