Australia national team head coach Ange Postecoglou has named Tim Cahill in the preliminary 30-man squad for this month\u2019s crucial World Cup qualifiers, showing his faith for the veteran striker.<\/p>\n
However, the 51-year-old manager also admitted that Cahill, along with two or three other regulars are not guaranteed to make the Socceroos final 23-man squad for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers.<\/p>\n
The 37-year-old Tim Cahill played just 49 minutes of professional football last month for Melbourne City and didn’t play in the club’s 3-2 victory over Central Coast last week.<\/p>\n
“It is a concern, You want all your players playing regularly. I thought Timmy would have had more game time over the last couple of weeks”, Postecoglou said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll see how they go over the weekend, but it\u2019s unlikely all four will make it if they don\u2019t play significant minutes over the weekend,\u201d the manager added.<\/p>\n
Australia will take on Iraq in Tehran on March 23 and the UAE in Sydney five days later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Australia national team head coach Ange Postecoglou has named Tim Cahill in the preliminary 30-man squad for this month\u2019s crucial World Cup qualifiers, showing his faith for the veteran striker. However, the 51-year-old manager also admitted that Cahill, along with two or three other regulars are not guaranteed to make the Socceroos final 23-man squad for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers. The 37-year-old Tim Cahill played just 49 minutes of professional football last month for Melbourne City and didn’t play in the club’s 3-2 victory over Central Coast last week. “It is a concern, You want all your players playing regularly. I thought Timmy would have had more game time … Continue reading “Ange Postecoglou: Tim Cahill no longer guaranteed to make final squad for qualifiers”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":1823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[110,95,332],"class_list":["post-1822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-australia","tag-slider","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}