Adelaide United goalkeeper Joe Gauci is prone to be named within the Socceroos squad for this month’s two-game sequence towards Ecuador following veteran gloveman Danny Vukovic’s resolution to retire from worldwide soccer.
Capped 4 occasions and a part of Australia’s 2018 and 2022 World Cup squads. 37-year-old Vukokic stated the time had come for him to depart the Socceroos scene. and “present an opportunity to the next generation of talented Australian ’keepers”.
“There will never be a greater honour in Australian men’s football than pulling on the Socceroos’ jersey and representing your country on the international stage,” Vukovic stated
“I’ll forever be grateful to the coaches who have entrusted me to represented Australia at both youth and senior level and my teammates along the journey.”
The Central Coast Mariners custodian was set to have been included within the Socceroos squad for the March 24 (Sydney) and March 28 (Melbourne) video games towards Ecuador, with nationwide coach Arnold intent on rewarding Australia’s 2022 World Cup squad with choice.
“Subject to availability, the aim is to select the same squad from the World Cup in Qatar for this upcoming series against Ecuador, but unselfishly, Danny made the decision to decline the invitation and instead open up the chance for another goalkeeper to be part of the camp and impress for future honours,” Arnold stated.
And evidently 22-year-old Adelaide gloveman Gauci can be first to get that “chance” by being named with Mat Ryan and Andrew Redmayne because the goalkeepers within the nationwide squad on March 14,
“We’re still got to select the squad, but he (Gauci) has done extremely well this year with Adelaide and even last season, and he’s a youngster,” Arnold stated.
“We do have a big hole in the goalkeeping department. You’ve got older goalkeepers over the age of 30, there’s nothing (much) in the late 20s … and then it’s the young ones.
“(Socceroos goalkeeping coach) John Crawley is on to that and we’re looking at those goalkeepers, and we’ll give them a chance through this year.”
Gauci and one other contender to exchange Vukovic within the nationwide squad, 24-year-old Tom Glover, can be on opposing sides at Coopers Stadium on Friday evening when Adelaide United hosts A-League leaders Melbourne City.
Glover was Australia’s goalkeeper on the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 in an Olyroos squad that additionally included custodian Ashley Maynard-Brewer, who’s on the books of English decrease division membership Charlton.
Source: www.news.com.au
