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Four-time veterans to late bolters, here's your Socceroos pocket guide
Key takeaways
- Here's your guide to everything you need to know about the players who make up the Socceroos.
- It's a 48-team tournament, being staged across the USA, Canada, and Mexico, with Australia drawing a host nation for the first time since the 1974 edition.
- The first match of the tournament gets underway at 5am on Friday (AEST) between Mexico and South Africa, while Australia plays its first match on Sunday at 2pm.
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Here's your guide to everything you need to know about the players who make up the Socceroos. (Getty Images: James Worsford)
Link copied Share Share article Australia is in a sixth-consecutive men's World Cup, but this one looks a lot different to when the Socceroos golden generation made it to the knockout rounds in 2006, or the Qatar World Cup of 2022.
It's a 48-team tournament, being staged across the USA, Canada, and Mexico, with Australia drawing a host nation for the first time since the 1974 edition.
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