Written by Greg Stock

Source: Doug Butcher

Before the Oceania Group Olympic Games qualifiers the Malaysian Under 23 Olympic team held a training camp in Australia and played the Olyroos in two friendly matches in Canberra
Played: Tuesday March 26 1991				Venue: Bruce Stadium, Canberra
Australia Steve Mautone, Damian Mori, Ned Zelic, Dominic Longo, Shaun Murphy, Tony Vidmar, Eric Hristodoulou, John Gibson (Lorenz Kindtner 80), Steve Refenes (Kevin Muscat 71), Michael Michalakopoulos, Zoran Ilic (Carl Veart 72). Goals: Ilic 35, Mori 48, 90 Michalakoulos 60	4	-	1	Malaysia Chong Kim Boon, Mohammad Salehuddin Che Ros, Seziman Ismali (Ghazela Ismali 35 (Edres Selemat 81)), Chee Won Hoe, V.Thinagaren, Ong Kim Swee, Yap Wai Loon, Chong King Kong, Lee Theen Ewe, Azmi Mohamad (Ahmed Fauzi Ibrahim 70), Azman Adnan. Red Card: Swee 51 Goal: Swee 38
Referee: Chris Conti (Australia) Attendance: Not Known Coaches: Eddie Thomson (Australia), Mustakim Omar (Malaysia)
Played: Thursday March 28 1991				Venue: Bruce Stadium, Canberra
Australia John Filan, Damian Mori, Ned Zelic, Dominic Longo, Shaun Murphy, Tony Vidmar (Kevin Muscat 71), Lorenz Kindtner (Eric Hristodoulou 55), Steve Refenes, George Slifkas (Milan Blagojevic 55), Carl Veart, Michael Michalakopoulos (Zoran Ilic 41). Goals: Refenes 85, 88	2	-	0	Malaysia Mohamed Kiros Mohamad, Ghazale Ismali (V.Thinagaren 25), Mohamad Salehuddin Che Ros, Ahmed Fauzi Ibrahim (Edres Selemat 77), Chee Won Hoe, Lee Theen Ewe, Nik Kamaruizawan Raja, Abdul Murbin Mokhtar Muba (Yep Wei Loon 68), Azman Adnan (Adnan Ibrahim 50), Ong Kim Swee, Chong King Kong.
Referees: Gordon Dunster (Australia) Attendance: 440 Coaches: Eddie Thomson (Australia), Mustakim Omar (Malaysia)
The Olyroos path to the Olympic games in 1992 was over two phases. Phase one commenced with the Oceania qualifiers in May in Melbourne followed by the second phase in Fiji in November. Australia were drawn to play Papua New Guines, New Zealand and Fiji in the Oceania group.
Played: Sunday May 19 1991				Venue: Olympic Park, Melbourne
Australia John Filan, Milan Blagojevic, Steve Georgakis, Ned Zelic, Dominic Longo, Tony Vidmar (Steve Refenes 71), Paul Okon (Zoran Ilic 46), George Slifkas, John Markovski, Carl Veart, David Seal. Goals: Veart 9, 28, 35 Markovski 42	4	-	0	Papua New Guinea Simon Ronald, Charlie Api, Eddie Fred, Nouata Inara, Beneho Luluwai (Richard Kareko 73), Didi Saripa, Ian Chris Soweni, Stephen Tika, Desmond Waku, Baxie Warong, Geno Vevso (John Kores 73).
Referee: Barry Tasker (New Zealand) Attendance: 766 Coaches: Eddie Thomson (Australia), Paul Soweni (Papua New Guinea)
Played: Wednesday May 22 1991				Venue: Olympic Park, Melbourne
Australia John Filan, Milan Blagojevic, Steve Georgakis, Ned Zelic, Dominic Longo, Tony Vidmar, Paul Okon, George Slifkas, John Markovski, Carl Veart (Michael Michalakopoulos 61), David Seal. Goals: Okon 8 pen, Vidmar 15	2 aet	-	0 aet	New Zealand Lineup Included; Michael Utting, Lawrence Fitzpatrick, Henry Ngata, Vaughan Coveny.
Referee: Mahendra Singh (Fiji) Attendance: 1,000 Coaches: Eddie Thomson (Australia), Ian Marshall (New Zealand)
Played: Sunday May 26 1991				Venue: Olympic Park, Melbourne
Australia John Filan, Milan Blagojevic, Steve Georgakis (John Gibson 46), Ned Zelic, Dominic Longo, Tony Vidmar, Damian Mori (Carl Veart 70), Eric Hristodoulou, Steve Refenes, John Markovski, Michael Michalakopoulos. Goals: Vidmar 34 Michalakopoulos 46 pen 72 pen Gibson 63 67 69 Blagojevic 89	7	-	0	Fiji Lineup Included; Iosefo Visabotu, Vineshwar, Jope Lomu, Shiekh Azem Shalb, Manoj Kumar, Ratu Josefa Masllagi. Red Cards: Shalb 4 Lomu 58 Visabotu 71 Masllagi 88
Referee: Ron Gallon (New Zealand) Attendance: 1,000 Coaches: Eddie Thomson (Australia), Danny McLennan (Fiji)
Played: Monday November 11 1991				Venue: Prince Charles Park, Nadi, Fiji
Papua New Guinea Lineup Included; Simon Ronald, Hens Gewebing.	0	-	5	Australia John Filan, Milan Blagojevic, Shaun Murphy, Ned Zelic, Dominic Longo, Tony Vidmar, John Gibson, George Slifkas, John Markovski (Steve Refenes), Carl Veart (Gary Hasler), David Seal. Goals: Veart 13 Blagojevic 14 Murphy 24 Seal 47 Vidmar 56
Referee: Not Known Attendance: 200 Coaches: Eddie Thomson (Australia)
Played: Wednesday November 13 1991				Venue: Churchill Park, Lautoka, Fiji
New Zealand Lineup Included; Michael Utting, Julyan Fallon, Julian Bowden, Vaughan Coveny. Red Card: Bowden Goal: Coveny 69	1	-	2	Australia John Filan, Milan Blagojevic, Shaun Murphy, Ned Zelic, Dominic Longo, Tony Vidmar, Damian Mori (Carl Veart), George Slifkas, John Markovski, Gary Hasler (Steve Refenes), David Seal. Goals: Fallon Own Goal 78 Seal 89
Referee: Gopelan Kenna (Fiji) Attendance: 1,500 Coaches: Eddie Thomson (Australia)
Played: Saturday November 16 1991				Venue: Ba, Fiji
Fiji (Lineup Not Known)	0	-	3	Australia Mark Bosnich, Damian Mori, Shaun Murphy, Ned Zelic, Dominic Longo, Greg Dickinson, John Gibson (George Slifkas), Eric Hristodoulou, Steve Refenes (Milan Blagojevic), Carl Veart, David Seal. Goals: Seal 14 75 Veart 22
Referee: Ken Wallace (New Zealand) Attendance: Not Known Coaches: Eddie Thomson (Australia)

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