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Australia's National
Team
Information
The Australia
national
football
team represents Australia in
international
soccer competitions. Its
official
nickname is the
"Socceroos".
The
team is controlled by Football
Federation
Australia (or the F.F.A),
which is
at present a member of the
Asian
Football Confederation and
also an
invitee
member of the ASEAN
Football
Federation since
2006.
Australia is a four-
time
Oceania
Football Confederation
champion
and has
been represented at two FIFA
World
Cup tournaments, in 1974 and
2006.
The
team is currently ranked as
the 14th
best
team in the world by FIFA
making it
the
highest FIFA ranked team in
Asia.
14th is
also Australia's highest ever
FIFA
World Rankings, since the
rankings
system
was first used back in 1992.
Australia finished
top of their group in
the
2010 World Cup qualification
stages
and
became one of the first
nations to
qualify
for the finals in South
Africa.
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