The Socceroos will finalise their FIFA World Cup preparations with a friendly international against Switzerland in June.<\/p>\n
The game will take place at San Diego\u2019s Snapdragon Stadium on June 7 (AEST), a week before Australia\u2019s World Cup opener against Turkiye in Vancouver<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will be a great final hit-out for us before the World Cup commences … Switzerland is a strong nation,\u201d Socceroos coach Tony Popovic.<\/p>\n
Switzerland has also qualified for the World Cup and is No.19 in the FIFA rankings, eight places better than the Socceroos.<\/p>\n
The Murat Yakin-coached Swiss, who are captained by Sunderland star Granit Xhaka, will be Australia\u2019s first European opponents under Popovic\u2019s tenure, which started in September 2024.<\/p>\n
The Socceroos\u2019 World Cup squad will be finalised before the game, which takes place a week after Australia\u2019s friendly against Mexico at Pasadena\u2019s Rose Bowl.<\/p>\n
Football Australia\u2019s executive director of football Heather Garriock said: \u201cFacing a European nation of Switzerland\u2019s calibre in our final match before the tournament is a valuable opportunity to finalise preparations and test ourselves against a different style of football..<\/p>\n
\u201cFootball Australia has been focused on ensuring the Socceroos are well prepared for the World Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Socceroos will finalise their FIFA World Cup preparations with a friendly international against Switzerland in June. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[1117,1665,18775,1066,3033,563,20692,197,28586,28583,28587,10732,28584,23068,20690,28582,510,28585,16397,208,17,28580,4990,28581,18659,6267],"class_list":["post-49944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-america","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-british-columbia","tag-california","tag-canada","tag-central-america","tag-europe","tag-european-nation","tag-european-opponents","tag-european-opposition","tag-fifa","tag-finalise-preparations","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-mexico","tag-newswire-sport","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-oceania","tag-san-diego","tag-switzerland","tag-tony-popovic","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-valuable-opportunity","tag-vancouver","tag-western-europe"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116414507010604988","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}