Captain Mile Jedinak has been recalled by head coach Ange Postecoglou for Australia’s 2018 AFC World Cup playoff against Syria next month.<\/p>\n
Coach Ange Postecoglou on Tuesday named a provisional 30-man squad for the two-legged playoff to be played in Malaysia and Sydney<\/a>.<\/p>\n Jedinak returns to the squad after missing Confederations Cup in June and the recent qualifiers against Japan and Thailand due to a niggling groin injury.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Nikita Rukavytsya, who has not played international football since 2014, has been also recalled to the Socceroos\u2019 squad.<\/p>\n Australia finished third in the Group B of Asian third qualifying round despite losing only once in 10 games. Postecoglou \u2018s side ended up just behind group winners Japan and runners-up Saudi Arabia on goal difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Captain Mile Jedinak has been recalled by head coach Ange Postecoglou for Australia’s 2018 AFC World Cup playoff against Syria next month. Coach Ange Postecoglou on Tuesday named a provisional 30-man squad for the two-legged playoff to be played in Malaysia and Sydney. Jedinak returns to the squad after missing Confederations Cup in June and the recent qualifiers against Japan and Thailand due to a niggling groin injury. Meanwhile, Nikita Rukavytsya, who has not played international football since 2014, has been also recalled to the Socceroos\u2019 squad. Australia finished third in the Group B of Asian third qualifying round despite losing only once in 10 games. Postecoglou \u2018s side ended … Continue reading “Mile Jedinak returns to Australia’s squad for Syria play-off”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":7162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[552,110,95,467,332],"class_list":["post-7161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-ange-postecoglou","tag-australia","tag-slider","tag-socceroos","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161","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=7161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}