PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has kicked off Australia`s 2018 football World Cup lobbying marathon by meeting with some real political heavyweights - the power brokers of FIFA
AUSTRALIA coach Pim Verbeek will have another chance against Iraq on Sunday to test the big-match temperament of the man emerging as the solution to his central defensive problems
AUSTRALIA coach Pim Verbeek expects reprieved Iraq to give his side one of the toughest tests of his short tenure when they meet in two upcoming World Cup qualifiers