Graham Arnold
Graham Arnold
Graham James Arnoldis a former footballplayer, manager of A-League club Sydney FC. Arnold was appointed to work as an assistant coach of the Australian national football team in 2000. After head coach Frank Farina was sacked in 2005, Arnold worked with Guus Hiddink for the 2006 FIFA World Cup campaign, in which they made the second round of the finals. After Hiddink left, he became acting coach of the Socceroos. Arnold went on take the manager role at A-League club...
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This is a better option than having to go to Colombia,
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I think the first half the boys were a bit nervous, it was a scrappy first half.
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It is a major concern. We don't have the depth in the squad. We have 23-24 elite players.
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It a win-win situation for Archie, the club and for his country. Guus wants Archie to get some meaningful game time - and that's great for us.
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He seems very happy and content with himself at the moment, and you're seeing that getting delivered on the field.
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Holland and Greece give us a good preparation because of their tactical ability, and tactically is what we need to be working on.
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He's a very special type of striker over there, there's not many players in England like him with that style, a target man with the strength he has on the ball. He brings other people into play because he's a special player.
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He looks very happy within himself and with where he's at the moment, he's extremely motivated,
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I just felt that Mark has never looked fitter when I saw him at the last training camp in Holland. He's as fit as I've ever seen him, as trim as I've ever seen him and extremely sharp.
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The players are looking forward to it because they'd like revenge
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He's very happy, and a lot of players need to be happy off the field to be playing well on the field, and I'd say Archie is that kind of person,
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I rang him last night and spoke to him and he says 'okay, there's nothing we can do about it but Australians are meant to be tough'.
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You want to hope that he can be a wildcard,
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And he proved against Jamaica his quality, he played very well, took his goal very nicely, and blended in to the system very well.