That Night : A Decade On, The Story Of Australian Football's Greatest Night

That Night : A Decade On, The Story Of Australian Football's Greatest Night

 
Wednesday, November 16, 2005. 80,000 people at the Olympic Stadium in Sydney, millions around the country couldn't believe what they had witnessed. The Socceroos, after a 32 year wait had qualified for World Cup. 32 years of heartache, despair, and a sleeping giant of Australian sport continuingly falling into a deeper and deeper sleep thanks to infighting and incompetence was awake. After 2 hours in Sydney, and 90 minutes in the seething atmosphere of Montevideo 4 days earlier, Mark Schwarzer's giant hands and John Aloisi's magical left foot allowed Australia to sneak past Uruguay in a penalty shootout - the worst and best way to end a contest of this magnitude.

That Night isn't just about a game of football though. It delves into the story of why we had to wait 32 years, talking to the players who lived through those nightmares. Losing to New Zealand in 1981, Scotland in 1985, a Maradona-inspired Argentina in 1993 and our most haunting nightmare, Iran in 1997.

The players that were on the field That Night tell their stories like never before of how they got to that moment, what their role in the success on That Night was. It wasn't simply a case of showing up to play 2 games against Uruguay. This was the culmination of a career spent mainly away from these shores to get somewhere in the world's biggest sport. Kewell, Aloisi, Viduka, Emerton, Culina, Grella, Bresciano, Popovic, Vidmar, Skoko. Who knows were the sport would be if we didn't get to the World Cup. Certainly nowhere near where it is now.

The Socceroos got the attention, Australia got worldwide recognition at the 2006 World Cup, the A League grew, marquee names eventually made their way to play here, professionalism and corporate interest went to new levels, far, far removed from the days of struggle pre-2005, when the A League started. It all changed, That Night.

About the Author

Adam Peacock was born and raised on Sydney's Northern Beaches, falling in love with sport, and in particular football from an early age. Not good enough to play for a living, he worked out quickly talking and writing about it was a better career-choice. After eight years as a reporter Channel 7, he moved to Fox Sports in 2006 where he's now host of its Football coverage, while also covering tennis grand slams and contributing to Fox Sports News. He's also covered 6 Olympic Games. And he still plays park football, not as well as he hopes.

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  • ISBN : 9780857989321
  • Product Type : Book
  • Format : Paperback
  • Author : Adam Peacock
  • Language : ENG
  • Country of Publication : AU
GTIN: 9780857989321

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