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Socceroos seek government support to play home World Cup qualifiers – Sydney Morning Herald
The men’s national team didn’t play a single game last year and face a backlog of World Cup qualifiers in 2021 – but they’ll need help to play any of them on Australian…
FIFA ruled last year that clubs could block players from leaving for international duty if they were are due to play in a country with an enforced quarantine period of five days or more. Football Australia expects that rule will apply again in 2021, making it impossible for Arnold to call upon star players like Mathew Ryan, Aaron Mooy and Awer Mabil, who play for clubs in Europe and Asia.
In anticipation of exemptions being denied in March, Football Australia’s contingency plan is to postpone the…
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