{"id":285197,"date":"2025-11-15T02:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T02:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/285197\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T02:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T02:05:11","slug":"australia-vs-venezuela-international-football-friendly-houston-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/285197\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia vs Venezuela, international football friendly, Houston, live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

1m agoSat 15 Nov 2025 at 2:02amSocceroos XI: Senior debuts for three players\"Henry<\/p>\n

Tony Popovic names a youthful lineup to take on Venezuela in Houston.<\/p>\n

Patrick Beach, Paul Okon-Engstler and Kai Trewin are all set to make their maiden international appearances, while the exciting duo of Mo Toure and Nestory Irankunda start up top.<\/p>\n

Craig Goodwin looks to be starting at left wing-back in the place of the injured Jordy Bos, while Jackson Irvine and Riley McGree make their international returns from the bench.<\/p>\n

31m agoSat 15 Nov 2025 at 1:33am<\/p>\n

Welcome!\"Henry\"\"(Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Hello everyone and welcome to ABC Sport’s online coverage of the Socceroos vs Venezuela in Houston, Texas.<\/p>\n

It is the first time Australia has played South American opposition in more than two years \u2014 and with World Cup seeding on the line, this is an international friendly with a little extra meaning.<\/p>\n

Jackson Irvine, after missing the last three international windows, returns for the ‘Roos, while Riley McGree also comes back into the fold.<\/p>\n

My name’s Henry Hanson and I’ll be here to guide you through every moment of the action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1m agoSat 15 Nov 2025 at 2:02amSocceroos XI: Senior debuts for three players Tony Popovic names a youthful…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[164769,64,63,164767,596,5145,124616,85316,148625,67584,44,5400,13198,42150,164768,22474],"class_list":{"0":"post-285197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-2026-fifa-world-cup","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australia-vs-venezuela","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-houston","14":"tag-international-friendly","15":"tag-jackson-irvine","16":"tag-mo-toure","17":"tag-nestory-irankunda","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-score","20":"tag-soccer","21":"tag-socceroos","22":"tag-socceroos-vs-venezuela","23":"tag-venezuela"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}