Re-writing Socceroos History - 2007 AFC Asian Cup Final - Korea Republic v Australia

After a historic run in Germany, that saw Mark Viduka lift the FIFA World Cup for Australia, the Socceroos continue their new journey in the Asian Football Confederation - looking to complete the AFC Asian Cup and FIFA World Cup double. Group A ended on a knife-edge with Pakistan, Iraq and Australia all ending on 6 points, with co-hosts Hong Kong finishing on 0 points. With the AFC implementing a 'head-to-head' tiebreaker instead of overall goal difference, Pakistan topped the group, whereas Australia - despite their final day loss to Iraq - scraped through in second place. After defeating Japan 3-1 in the quarter finals, and Saudi Arabia 2-0 in the semi finals, Korea Republic now await the Socceroos in Jakarta, with the AFC Asian Cup up for grabs. As Australia were also winners of the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, and thus already qualified for the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup in South Africa, Korea Republic have now qualified as the AFC representatives. Ahead of Australia's friendly against Uruguay, Australian captain and leading goalscorer Mark Viduka sat down in front of the press and announced his international retirement at the end of the AFC Asian Cup. On the day Australia won the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup, the FIFA Executive Committee approved a move from the Oceanian Football Confederation to the Asian Football Confederation. FIFA noted that "as all of the parties involved ... had agreed to the move, the case did not need to be discussed by the FIFA Congress". The AFC voted on 10 September unanimously to ratify the decision in a few days. The move took effect on January 1 2006, with Australia to be entered into qualifying for the 2007 AFC Asian Cup. They saw out the 2006 World Cup Qualifying cycle, and then will be entered into the AFC Qualifiers for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. ---- Played on Professional difficulty with 6 minute halves. Twitch saw it live! Subscribe and notifications on at twitch.com/wiisardnic for surprise live matches, and VOD from the previous 7 days