Today Luke Remington was named in the Qantas Young Socceroos 18-player squad for the SBS Cup which will be played in Shizuoka, Japan later this week (18-21 August).
Today Luke Remington was named in the Qantas Young Socceroos 18-player squad for the SBS Cup which will be played in Shizuoka, Japan later this week (18-21 August).
The Qantas Young Socceroos squad includes 17 Australian-based players and one overseas-based player, Aaron Lennox.
Gold Coast United midfielder Jake Barker-Daish was a member of the recent Qantas Young Socceroos squad that competed at the FIFA U-20 World Cup earlier this month and Luke Remington, Connor Chapman, Yianni Perkatis, Corey Brown, Anthony Proia and Jesse Makarounos were members of the Qantas Joeys squad that were at the FIFA U-17 World Cup Mexico 2011.
This will be the first outing for this group of players looking to qualify for the FIFA U-20 World Cup Turkey 2013 and Head Coach Jan Versleijen knows playing matches against quality opposition is an extremely important part of that process.
“This is the start of our new campaign and our first official time together for the next group of Qantas Young Socceroos,” said Versleijen
“We are missing a number of players for a variety of reasons, for example resting Mustafa Amini and Terry Antonis after the World Cup, but unfortunately many others are injured at this time.
“The positive that we can take out of this is that we will get to have a look at a few new players that may not normally be selected at this time as well as some of the players that went to the Under 17 World Cup in Mexico.
“With our AFC U-19 Championship qualifiers scheduled for later this year, this tournament is a good place to start our preparations,” concluded Versleijen
The Qantas Young Socceroos will face Shizuoka on Thursday afternoon at the Fujieda Sports Park Soccer Field, followed by Japan on Sunday evening at the Kusanagi Stadium and will play their final match of the SBS Cup against Mexico on Sunday evening at the Stadium Ecopa.
The AFC U-19 Championship qualifiers will be held from 31 October-8 November, 2010, with the venue to be announced soon.
The Qantas Young Socceroos have been drawn in Group G of the competition along with China P.R., Indonesia, Singapore and Macau.
The Qantas Young Socceroos departed Sydney on Monday evening.