yep, that's true as well. arnie did a good job. he squeezed the best out of an average squad at a world cup. that was magic. but - the team was not playing well by the end of his tenure - things immediately improved under popa. for one, the team has become much more defensively solid. as i said...
that's an unfair comparison. that period of arnie's tenure included round 2 asian qualifiers which pump up all those metrics. popovic took over when it looked like we wouldnt qualify and didn't lose a game. beat japan and saudi arabia. we lost 3-0 to one of the best teams in the world. we were...
england's u17 world cup squad is mostly 2008-born. the team we will play is 2009-born - all but three of our players were born in 2009 with the exceptions being 2010 born
don't think that's true. he has an australian passport, so he isn't a visa player. but he wasn't born here, nor were his parents or grandparents - his dad moved here as a child. thus, to represent australia - he'd have to live here for 5 years