Buster,
Whatever they are called.....
The ones you were stirring on the Latin American Forum......
*Socceroos miss World Cup*
Australia has failed to make the 2002 World Cup finals after a 3-0 loss
to Uruguay in a second leg qualifying match in Montevideo.
Uruguay won the tie on aggregate scores 3-1 to take the last place in
next year's World Cup finals in South Korea and Japan.
The home team took a 1-0 lead into half-time and continued its
dominance, netting two second-half goals to sink the Socceroos' hopes of
advancing to the finals.
The first goal came in the 14th minute, a long ball played in towards
Uruguayan striker Dario Silva.
He took one touch to control the ball and shielded it from Australian
defender Shaun Murphy before volleying the ball right-to-left past Mark
Schwarzer in the Australian goal.
Silva is Uruguay's top scorer in the World Cup qualifiers, but missed
the first leg in Melbourne after dislocating his shoulder days earlier
in the South Americans' final group match.
Substitute Richard Morales scored both second-half goals, with his
second coming in the final minutes.
Australia's best chance came just after the hosts had scored their
first.
A Stan Lazaridis cross from the Australian left was met by the head of
Harry Kewell, but Uruguayan goalkeeper Fabian Carini made an excellent
save low to his left.
Kewell had another good chance in the second half, but the Leeds United
striker put the ball a foot over the cross-bar.
Kewell's Leeds team-mate, Mark Viduka, also had a chance to score, but
was unable to control a header from directly in front of goal.
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