Written by Thomas Esamie
| In preparation for the World Youth Cup the Australian team went to South Korea for a series of warmup games. | ||||
| Played : May 21 | Venue : Busan, South Korea | |||
| Australia Daniel Vukovic, Mark Milligan (sent off 33), Jacob Timpano, Ryan Townsend, Aaron Downes (Adrian Leijer 46), Billy Celeski (James Wesolowski 71), Ruben Zadkovich (David Williams 66), Kristian Sarkies, Vince Lia (Nick Ward 53), Chris Tadrosse, Jay Lucas (Russell Woodruffe 85) |
0 | - | 2 | Colombia Goals : Marrugo 53, Renteria 85 |
| Referee : Linesmen : Coaches : Ange Postecoglou (Australia) | ||||
| Match Report by Soccer Australia | ||||
| In preparation for the World Youth Cup the Australian team went to South Korea for a series of warmup games. | ||||
| Played : May 24 | Venue : Busan, South Korea | |||
| South Korea |
0 | - | 1 | Australia Justin Pasfield, Trent McClenahan, Jacob Timpano, Aaron Downes, Nikolai Topor-Stanley, James Wesolowski, Billy Celeski (Adrian Leijer 87), Kristian Sarkies (Ruben Zadkovich 62), Vince Lia (David Williams 73), Nick Ward (Jay Lucas 62), Chris Tadrosse (Russell Woodruffe 90) Goal : Topor-Stanley 85 |
| Referee : Linesmen : Coaches : Ange Postecoglou (Australia) | ||||
| Match Report by Soccer Australia | ||||
| In preparation for the World Youth Cup the Australian team went to South Korea for a series of warmup games. | ||||
| Played : May 26 | Venue : Busan, South Korea | |||
| Australia Justin Pasfield (Adam Federici 46), Mark Milligan, Trent McClenahan, Ryan Townsend, Aaron Downes, Billy Celeski (Jay Lucas 69), Ruben Zadkovich (Kristian Sarkies 46), Nick Ward, Vince Lia, David Williams (James Wesolowski 58), Chris Tadrosse Goal : unknown 19og |
1 | - | 1 | Morocco Goal : Tarik |
| Referee : Linesmen : Coaches : Ange Postecoglou (Australia) | ||||
| Match Report by Soccer Australia | ||||
| Game 1 of the World Youth Cup. Benin going great guns early in their first game at the finals, ever, and playing with the kind of heart you get when your goalkeeper is stabbed to death. Australia finally take a hold, equalise and should overrun them, but fail to. | ||||
| Played : June 10 | Venue : Parkstad Limburg Stadium, Kerkrade, Netherlands | |||
| Australia Adam Federici, Mark Milligan, Trent McClenahan, Jacob Timpano, Aaron Downes, Billy Celeski, Stuart Musialik, Kristian Sarkies, Vince Lia, Chris Tadrosse (Spase Dilevski 77), Nick Ward Goals : Ward 59 |
1 | - | 1 | Benin Yoann Djidonou, Charaf Chitou, Oscar Olou, Traore Moussa, Florent Raimy, Romualde Boco, Abou Maiga, Coffi Agbessi, Razak Omotoyossi (Youssouf Nassirou 87), Seidath Tchomogo, Jocelin Ahoueya (Bachirou Osseni 72) Goals : Omotoyossi 32 |
| Referee : Luis Medina Cantalejo (Spain) Linesmen : Victoriano Giraldez Carrasco, Pedro Medina Hernandez (Spain) Coaches : Ange Postecoglou (Australia), Serge Deveze (Benin) Crowd : 4500 | ||||
| Squad Listing | Match Report by Soccer Australia | |||
| Played : June 15 | Venue : Parkstad Limburg Stadium, Kerkrade, Netherlands | |||
| Netherlands Kenneth Vermeer, Dwight Tiendalli, Ron Vlaar, Frank van der Struijk, Jeroen Drost, Hedwiges Maduro, Quincy Owusu Abeyie, Rick Kruys, Collins John (Tim Vincken 46), Ryan Babel (Prince Rajcomar 72), Urby Emanuelson (Haris Medunjanin 77) Goals : Maduro 20, Emanuelson 46, Kruys 74 |
3 | - | 0 | Australia Adam Federici, Mark Milligan, Trent McClenahan, Jacob Timpano, Stuart Musialik, Vince Lia, Billy Celeski (Ruben Zadkovich 51), Kristian Sarkies (Jay Lucas 61), Aaron Downes, Spase Dilevski (Chris Tadrosse 51) |
| Referee : Jong Chul Kwon (South Korea) Linesmen : Tiejun Liu (China), Dae Young Kim (South Korea) Coaches : Ange Postecoglou (Australia), Foppe De Haan (Netherlands) Crowd : 19500 | ||||
| Squad Listing | Match Report by Soccer Australia | |||
| Needing a win to entertain any hopes of progressing the Aussies fell a few minutes short and started a trend which, a few hours later, the senior side followed as they exited the Confederations Cup. | ||||
| Played : June 18 | Venue : Parkstad Limburg Stadium, Kerkrade, Netherlands | |||
| Australia Justin Pasfield, Mark Milligan, Trent McClenahan, Jacob Timpano, Stuart Musialik (Billy Celeski 72), Jay Lucas, Chris Tadrosse, Spase Dilevski (Kristian Sarkies 64), Ryan Townsend, Ruben Zadkovich (Nick Ward 55), James Wesolowski Goal : Townsend 75 |
1 | - | 1 | Japan Shusaku Nishikawa, Hiroki Mizumoto, Yuzo Kobayashi, Tatsuya Masushima (Takayuki Morimoto 80), Yohei Kajiyama, Hokuto Nakamura, Sota Hirayama, Shingo Hyodo (Koki Mizuno 67), Robert Cullen, Tomokazu Nagira, Akihiro Ienaga (Shunsuke Maeda 58) Goal : Maeda 87 |
| Referee : Terje Hauge (Norway) Linesmen : Steinar Holvik, Ole Hermann Borgan (Norway) Coaches : Ange Postecoglou (AUS), Kiyoshi Ohkuma (JPN) Crowd : 2000 | ||||
| Squad Listing | Match Report by Soccer Australia | |||