{"id":872,"date":"2026-04-29T00:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T00:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/872\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T00:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T00:13:09","slug":"four-sydney-fc-players-named-in-joeys-asian-cup-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/872\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Sydney FC players named in Joeys Asian Cup squad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four Sky Blue boys have been called up to the Australian U17s for the AFC U17 Asian Cup held in Saudi Arabia in May.<\/p>\n

Akol Akon from the First Team has joined Corey Da Cruz, Miles Milliner & Aston Reid from the Academy in the 23 player squad for the tournament held between 5-22nd May.<\/p>\n

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Australia has been drawn into Group D and will face India (6 May \u2013 local time) and Uzbekistan (13 May \u2013 local time).\u00a0<\/p>\n

DPR Korea, originally drawn in Group D, has withdrawn from the tournament.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The U17 continental tournament \u2013 which serves as qualifying for the FIFA U17 World Cup Qatar 2026\u2122 \u2013 will see the top eight teams earn their place at the age group\u2019s showpiece event to be held in November 2026.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

This means that should the Joeys secure passage out of their Group, they will punch their ticket to the FIFA U17 World Cup for the first time since 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n

MATCH DETAILS:\u00a0<\/p>\n

CommBank Joeys v India U17
Wednesday, 6 May 2026
King Abdullah Sports City Training Stadium (Pitch C), Jeddah
Kick-off: 7.00pm local \/ 2.00am AEST (Thursday, 7 May)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Uzbekistan U17 v CommBank Joeys
Wednesday, 13 May 2026
King Abdullah Sports City Training Stadium (Pitch A), Jeddah
Kick-off: 7.00pm local \/ 2.00am AEDT (Thursday, 14 May)\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four Sky Blue boys have been called up to the Australian U17s for the AFC U17 Asian Cup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[341,329,1642,247,1643],"class_list":{"0":"post-872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sydney","8":"tag-a-league","9":"tag-academy","10":"tag-joeys","11":"tag-sydney","12":"tag-sydney-fc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}