Qatar 2022: FIFA Highlights Most Prominent Players of Australian Team

Doha, September 12 (QNA) - The Australian national team will compete in the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, which will be held in November and December with great hopes as it aspires to appear better than the last two versions of the World Cup (Brazil 2014) and (Russia 2018) when it came out empty-handed without achieving any victory in the first round / group stages. In its report Monday, FIFA highlighted the most prominent players in the Australian team list that will compete in the FIFA World Cup 2022, noting that the Australian team is characterized by speed and skill, which are among its main offensive tools. In the report, FIFA said that while Australia’s class of ‘22 lack in star power, there are still some exciting, lesser-known talents who could make a major impression in Qatar. Coach Graham Arnold told FIFA+ back in June that he believes in his players and he knows that they don’t have anyone at the moment consistently starring in the world’s biggest leagues, but there is talent there. The reported pointed out that spirit and togetherness exists in plentiful supply, too, and those attributes came to the fore when – after a difficult, COVID-19 hit AFC qualifying campaign – the Socceroos ground out play-off wins over United Arab Emirates and then Peru to qualify for a fifth successive World Cup. No-one in Australia will need reminded that they have fallen at the first hurdle in the last three of those global finals, and emerged winless from the last two. But having prevailed as underdogs against the Peruvians, the team is determined to upset the odds once again – starting with holders France on 22 November. Martin Boyle, Aberdeen-born attacker is one of the most prominent players in the Australian team at FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. Once he joined the Australian national team, he made an instant impression, scoring two goals and laying on another in his first start to upstage Tim Cahill on the Aussie legend’s 108th and final international appearance. Boyle has continued to impress in the time since, contributing goals and assists and stretching opponents’ defenses with his blistering pace. While the attacking midfielder, Ajdin Hrustic will be one of the most prominent players in the Australian team at FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. With the talented Tom Rogic’s future still shrouded in mystery, Hrustic is without rival as Australia’s most creative midfielder. Elegant and confident on the ball, his ability to both score and create established the Verona playmaker as the breakout star of the Socceroos’ Qatar 2022 qualifying campaign. he 26-year-old is one of precious few Australia players operating in one of Europe’s so-called big five leagues, having recently swapped Eintracht Frankfurt of the Bundesliga for Serie A’s Verona. The trajectory of his club career has matched his international fortunes, and last season he was one of the penalty-scoring heroes as Eintracht won their first European trophy in over four decades. Australia's squad for FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 includes the 26 years old Awer Mabil who shot the sixth penalty in the shootout win over Peru that secured the Socceroos’ World Cup spot. This talented, elusive winger has contributed a great deal more than that coolly dispatched penalty since making an emotional debut in 2018. Now playing in La Liga with Cadiz after a successful seven-year stint with Danish side Midtjylland, he will be one of the players relied upon to provide the attacking inspiration that Arnold’s team will need against some of the world’s top sides. Meanwhile, Aaron Mooy, a midfield mainstay for much of the past decade whose importance was reinforced during those World Cup play-offs which took place in Doha. He arrived in Doha having not played a competitive game in four months, with his only preparation some individual sessions with Australia’s former strength and conditioning coach. But while this might have pointed to a substitute’s role, and Mooy bringing his experience in the latter stages, he ended up starting and seeing out both matches, playing all 120 minutes against Peru before stepping up to slot home a penalty. It showed too that, barring injury, this classy and composed technician is almost sure to be asked to anchor the Socceroos’ midfield in Qatar. Mooy is now playing under former Australia coach Ange Postecoglou at Celtic, will be crucial to ensuring that he arrives in peak condition. Mat Ryan, Australia's national team goal keeper, is a key player in the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 squad, the team’s captain, and the most-capped player of the current generation. Ryan shone especially brightly during a four-year spell with English Premier League side Brighton, and while a loan move to Arsenal and permanent switch to Real Sociedad didn’t yield much in the way of playing time, Ryan’s recent move to Danish champions FC Copenhagen should provide him with the necessary pre-tournament match practice. (QNA)