Socceroos in the World Cup: June 12-26, 2006

Riley, Matty, Duncan, Rachael and Zoe before the Australia vs. Japan game

After Australia scored 3 goals against Japan in the last 6 minutes!

View from the Fan Fest in Munich. Lively Brasilian fans turned Munich into a party after their win.

Watching the Round 16 Australia vs. Italy game

Great seats behind the goals. But, unfortunately no Australian goal.

It has been 32 years since Australia made it to the World Cup (the last time was also in Germany), so with friends from Australia, we followed the Socceroos around Germany. We managed to scalp some cheap tickets to their first match against Japan in Kaiserslatern (3:1). Then travelled to Munich and watched at the fanfest (the really big screens set up in cities to accomodate audiences of 30,000-1 million people): Australia vs Brazil 2:0. Then to Stuttgart: Australia vs Croatia 2:2. We also had tickets for the Round 16 match: Australia vs Italy 0:1. We had great seats for both of the live games and it has all been very exciting!