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Rodrigo Vargas has been named in the squad for the Socceroos’ May 23 friendly against Ghana. Along with him are Melbourne Victory team mates Danny Allsopp and Leigh Broxham.

The 23-man squad features nine A-League players.

Read more at The World Game.

The squad: Daniel Allsopp (Melbourne Victory), Michael Beauchamp (Nurnberg, Germany), Mark Bridge (Sydney FC), Leigh Broxham (Melbourne Victory) Jacob Burns (Unirea Valahorum, Romania), Nick Carle (Bristol City, England), David Carney (Sheffield United, England), Ante Covic (Newcastle Jets), Jason Culina (PSV Eindhoven, Netherlands) Adam Federici (Reading, England), Adam Griffiths (Newcastle Jets), Joel Griffiths (Avispa Fukuoka, Japan), James Holland (Newcastle Jets), Mile Jedinak (Central Coast Mariners), Harry Kewell (Liverpool, England), Jade North (Newcastle Jets), Michael Petkovic (Sivasspor, Turkey), Mark Schwarzer (Middlesbrough, England), Matthew Spiranovic (Nurnberg, Germany), Mile Sterjovski (Derby County, England), Nikolai Topor-Stanley (Perth Glory), James Troisi (Newcastle United, England), Carl Valeri (Grosseto, Italy), Rodrigo Vargas (Melbourne Victory).

This post marks the completion of an epic series of Melbourne Victory player profiles.

Do you remember this game?

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When: September 2, 2006

Where: The Telstra Dome

The result: Melbourne Victory 3, Sydney FC 2

It was only the second game of the season, but the Victory was already promising a grand season. The week before, Melbourne had beaten Adelaide United by 2 goals – a particularly encouraging result considering that they had lost every match against Adelaide before then by a 1 – 0 scoreline. The Sydney game was also impressive for the record crowd that packed the Telstra Dome (just under 40,000).

But perhaps the most promising thing about that night was Danny Allsopp. Continue reading →

News this morning revealed that Allsopp was nearly called up as a replacement for Mark Viduka in the Australian Asian Cup squad.

FFA had scheduled a teleconference for 6am this morning and another news conference in Sydney for 11am to break the bombshell news and announce that Melbourne Victory striker Danny Allsopp would be Viduka’s replacement. But by late yesterday, Viduka had reconsidered and told Arnold and FFA that he would be on the plane to join the squad in camp in Singapore later this month.

The Age

While unfortunate for Allsopp to miss out, the national team would have missed Viduka sorely. It however does highlight how prominent Allsopp is on the Socceroo radar, and deservedly so after his stellar season last year.