Brendan Hamill added to Qantas Young Socceroos Squad
Qantas Young Socceroos Head Coach Jan Versleijen has called up AIS defender Brendan Hamill into his squad to replace the injured Trent Sainsbury for the upcoming AFC U-19 Championship 2010 Qualifiers which will be held in Bandung, Indonesia from 7-17 November 2009.
Sainsbury sustained a knee injury at training recently and due to a slower than expected recovery was deemed unfit to travel by the team medical staff. His replacement Hamill recently travelled with the Qantas Young Socceroos to their pre-FIFA U-20 World Cup training camp in Cyprus and was a member of the Qantas Next Young Socceroos squad that were runners-up to Thailand at the recent AFF U19 Youth Championship in Vietnam.
The Qantas Young Socceroos will assemble for a short training camp in Sydney from today (Monday 2 November) and will depart Australia for Indonesia on Wednesday 4 November to prepare for their opening match of the tournament against Hong Kong on Saturday 7 November.
The top two teams from the qualifiers will progress to the AFC U-19 Championship 2010 which will be held from 1-16 November. The host nation for the tournament will be determined in November 2009 with the AFC Competitions Committee to choose between bids from China, Thailand and Indonesia.
Qantas Young Socceroos Squad List AFC U-19 Championship 2010 Qualifiers Bandung, Indonesia 7-17 November 2009
PlayerClub, Country Eli Babalj AIS Mark Birighitti (gk) Adelaide United Daniel Bowles Brisbane Roar Youth Karem Bulut Sydney FC Youth Chris Bush AIS Kofi Danning Sydney FC Jason Davidson Pacos de Ferreira, Portugal Petar Franjic Melbourne Victory Youth Sam Gallagher Sydney FC Rhyan Grant Sydney FC Brendan Hamill AIS Benjamin Kantarovski Newcastle Jets Robbie Kolak (gk) Newcastle Jets Youth Mathew Leckie Adelaide United Jared Lum AIS Steven Lustica Gold Coast United Dylan McGowan Hearts FC, Scotland Thomas Oar Brisbane Roar Dimitrios Petratos Sydney FC Youth Nikola Stanojevic AIS Kliment Taseski Melbourne Victory Youth Lawrence Thomas (gk) ais James Virgili Newcastle Jets Youth