{"id":4530,"date":"2022-12-06T12:50:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T11:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idrottsforum.org\/forumbloggen\/?p=4530"},"modified":"2022-12-06T12:50:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T11:50:13","slug":"qatar-world-cup-socceroos-best-ever-performance-and-what-it-means-for-the-game-in-australia-ahead-of-hosting-the-womens-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idrottsforum.org\/forumbloggen\/qatar-world-cup-socceroos-best-ever-performance-and-what-it-means-for-the-game-in-australia-ahead-of-hosting-the-womens-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar World Cup: Socceroos\u2019 best ever performance, and what it means for the game in Australia ahead of hosting the Women\u2019s World\u00a0Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4534\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4534\" style=\"width: 1050px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4534 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/idrottsforum.org\/forumbloggen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/socceroos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/idrottsforum.org\/forumbloggen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/socceroos.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/idrottsforum.org\/forumbloggen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/socceroos-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/idrottsforum.org\/forumbloggen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/socceroos-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/idrottsforum.org\/forumbloggen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/socceroos-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/idrottsforum.org\/forumbloggen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/socceroos-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/idrottsforum.org\/forumbloggen\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/socceroos-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Conversation (Thanassis Stavrakis\/AP\/AAP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Before the men\u2019s FIFA World Cup commenced, the Socceroos\u2019 most noteworthy contribution seemed likely to be their pre-emptive video campaign on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2022\/oct\/28\/socceroos-win-wide-support-for-campaign-highlighting-world-cup-host-qatars-human-rights-record\">human rights<\/a> in host country Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>The political debate receded somewhat once the action on the field kicked off. After <a href=\"https:\/\/euroweeklynews.com\/2022\/11\/22\/clash-in-qatar\/\">losing<\/a> their opening game heavily to world champions France, the focus was set to be on the deficiencies of the team, coach and organisation of the game in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>But unexpectedly, the Socceroos, ranked 38th in the world by FIFA, won two consecutive games for the first time in their World Cup history, and qualified for the knockout stages for the first time since 2006. There, they faced Lionel Messi\u2019s Argentina, ranked 3rd in the world.<\/p>\n<p>While their 2022 World Cup road then ended in an <a href=\"https:\/\/au.sports.yahoo.com\/fifa-world-cup-2022-socceroos-win-footbal-world-argentina-heroics-222613327.html\">honourable 2-1 defeat<\/a>, their historic run is a chance to reflect on the meaning of the Qatar experience for football in Australia, which has a troubled local history, as we look ahead to co-hosting the Women\u2019s World Cup next year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Socceroos, you&#39;ve done your country proud. <\/p>\n<p>An incredible effort to make it this far. Taking one of the best teams in the world to the wire. \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GkSzHirf6d\">pic.twitter.com\/GkSzHirf6d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SPORTbible (@sportbible) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sportbible\/status\/1599146502668312577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Taking on the world game<\/h3>\n<p>Those in Australia who only pay attention to football (or soccer) because of noisy World Cup intrusion tend to underestimate such effort and accomplishment.<\/p>\n<p>The two biggest football codes in the country, Australian rules and rugby league, are far less globally significant. Australian rules is played professionally only in Australia, while rugby league is dominated by Australasia.<\/p>\n<p>The recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rlwc2021.com\/\">Rugby League World Cup<\/a> in the UK saw the Australian men\u2019s team win it for the 12th time in 16 attempts, while the women\u2019s team have won the last three successive tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, the Socceroos have never come close to winning the football World Cup. This is unsurprising given FIFA has 211 affiliated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fifa.com\/about-fifa\/associations\">national teams<\/a>, compared to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intrl.sport\/member-nations\/\">International Rugby League\u2019s<\/a> 34 with two pending.<\/p>\n<p>After first qualifying in 1974 and losing all three games without scoring, Australia didn\u2019t return to the FIFA World Cup for 32 years. Before Qatar, the Socceroos had won only two out of 13 World Cup games <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/soccer\/news\/australia-world-cup-history-record-last-appearance-best-finish-socceroos-fifa-tournament\/vctvornntn7tts4ssnkcdery\">since 2006<\/a>, conceding twice as many goals as they\u2019d scored.<\/p>\n<p>To win consecutive games in Qatar and progress to the last 16 for only the second time was impressive, especially as the current team consists mostly of \u201cjourneymen\u201d and has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2022-06-16\/socceroos-dna-who-are-these-blokes\/101154112\">no outright stars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Being on the same pitch as superstars like Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 and Lionel Messi, both of whom scored against the Socceroos in Qatar, signalled both the scale of this achievement and the tough task ahead for a game with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joegorman.com.au\/the-death-and-life-of-australian-soccer\">troubled history<\/a> in Australia.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You did Australia proud on the world\u2019s biggest stage <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Socceroos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@socceroos<\/a> \ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddfa <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/outstanding?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#outstanding<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFAWorldCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FIFAWorldCup<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Anthony Albanese (@AlboMP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlboMP\/status\/1599146782252224512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Multicultural stigma and football diplomacy<\/h3>\n<p>The late Socceroo and commentator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.com.au\/books\/sheilas-wogs-and-poofters-9781742746975\">Johnny Warren<\/a> observed that men\u2019s football in Australia has been widely stigmatised as feminised, fey and foreign. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/The-Containment-of-Soccer-in-Australia-Fencing-Off-the-World-Game\/Hallinan-Hughson\/p\/book\/9781138880580\">prejudice<\/a> sometimes resurfaces, especially when any cases of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/17430437.2021.1897234\">crowd disorder<\/a> generate tabloid <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1177\/1326365X16640329\">headlines<\/a> about mob violence and old ethnic enmities being imported to Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Ethnic community clubs have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taylorfrancis.com\/books\/edit\/10.4324\/9780080569727\/sport-social-capital-matthew-nicholson-russell-hoye\">the cradle of football<\/a> in Australia. But when football became fully professional in 2004, this contribution was actively repressed under its new regime, which was run by the mega-rich Frank Lowy at the urging of Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/sport\/soccer\/the-fathers-of-australian-soccers-success-20051119-ge19rz.html\">John Howard<\/a>. A condition of public funding was the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/opus.lib.uts.edu.au\/bitstream\/10453\/10159\/1\/2007004437.pdf\">de-ethnicisation<\/a>\u201d of the game, which included banning ethnic-related names, emblems and chants.<\/p>\n<p>The attempted erasure of the local game\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/07256868.2017.1265490\">cultural history and present<\/a> is at odds with its officially-sanctioned use in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowyinstitute.org\/publications\/football-diplomacy\">football diplomacy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Australia left the small Oceania Football Confederation in 2006 for the bigger stage of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taylorfrancis.com\/chapters\/edit\/10.4324\/9781315680521-13\/afc-asian-cup-david-rowe\">Asian<\/a> counterpart, the Asian Football Confederation. But the move had long been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manchesterhive.com\/view\/9781526131065\/9781526131065.00018.xml\">opposed<\/a> by some Asian nations. Australia was seen, especially in the Middle East, as an affluent agent of the West.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, Qatar comprehensively defeated Australia in FIFA\u2019s now-discredited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fairplaypublishing.com.au\/products\/whatever-it-takes-the-inside-story-of-the-fifa-way\">bidding process<\/a> for hosting the 2022 World Cup. A further irony is that in countering China\u2019s ambitions in the region, Australia is enthusiastically using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dfat.gov.au\/sites\/default\/files\/sports-diplomacy-2030.pdf\">sports diplomacy<\/a> to mend fences with the same Pacific nations it previously abandoned in the football world.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Scenes in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FedSquare?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FedSquare<\/a> after the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Socceroos?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Socceroos<\/a> goal! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIFAWorldCup?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FIFAWorldCup<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CRZKqIvQak\">pic.twitter.com\/CRZKqIvQak<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SBS Sport (@SBSSportau) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SBSSportau\/status\/1597990541454880768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 30, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Up next: co-hosting the FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup<\/h3>\n<p>Still, following the Socceroos\u2019 success in Qatar there will soon be plentiful opportunities for regional sports diplomacy when Australia and Aotearoa-New Zealand host the 2023 FIFA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fifa.com\/fifaplus\/en\/tournaments\/womens\/womensworldcup\/australia-new-zealand2023\">Women\u2019s World Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian women\u2019s soccer team, the Matildas, has a higher ranking in world football than the national men\u2019s team \u2013 13th compared to 38th.<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/teams\/profile\/sam-kerr\">Sam Kerr<\/a> has a much higher global profile than any current Socceroo. She\u2019s currently playing for London club Chelsea in the top division of women\u2019s football in England, and has finished third in the women\u2019s Ballon d&#8217;Or (the prize for the world\u2019s best player) in both the last two years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Although Qatar is hardly renowned as a sports performer, it has brought the World Cup to its door, writes <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DarylAdair?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DarylAdair<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UTSEngage?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UTSEngage<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u26bd But why is its position as World Cup host so controversial? And how have FIFA + Qatar manoeuvred to deflect criticism? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KSZso5L2eF\">https:\/\/t.co\/KSZso5L2eF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Conversation (@ConversationEDU) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ConversationEDU\/status\/1593418290050867202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This World Cup will be the biggest sport event in Australia since the 2000 Sydney Olympics. It will also be a major indicator of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/16184742.2021.1904267\">post-peak pandemic<\/a> resurgence of women\u2019s sport and its challenge to traditional male domination.<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s treatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, refugees, and the environment, among other major political issues, are likely to be subjected to increased global scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>The Socceroos earned respect for how they began and finished their 2022 World Cup campaign. But as I suspect Australia will discover in 2023, when it comes to hosting mega sport events, it\u2019s not only illiberal countries like Qatar that feel the heat.<!-- Below is The Conversation's page counter tag. 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