Australia appoints Popovich to restore status.

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Former Australian international defender Tony Popovich has officially become the Socceroos’ new head Football coach.

The Football Association of Australia website has confirmed the appointment of Popovic as the new head coach. Replacing Graeme Arnold, who resigned a few days ago following the country’s poor performance in qualifying for the 2026 World Cup สมัคร ufabet 

Popovic will now begin his important career in the third round of Asian qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup. With his next two games next month being a home game against China on October 10. Followed by a tough trip to Japan five days later.

Australia, under the management of Arnold, passed the second round of qualifiers easily. But when entering the first two games of the third round. It appeared that they started with a home loss to Bahrain 0-1. Followed by an away draw with Indonesia 0-0, making the situation from now on a very difficult task for Popovic.

For Popovich, the 51 year old, who was previously a centre-back and played over 100 games for Crystal Palace. And as a head coach has also managed Western Sydney Wanderers, Karabukspor, Perth Glory, Xanthi and most recently Melbourne Victory.

Australia have appointed former Crystal Palace defender Tony Popovic as their new manager. And given him the task of rescuing their faltering World Cup qualifying campaign.