{"id":664716,"date":"2026-05-11T22:16:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T22:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/664716\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T22:16:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T22:16:26","slug":"commbank-socceroos-add-ten-more-players-to-fifa-world-cup-2026-train-on-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/664716\/","title":{"rendered":"CommBank Socceroos add ten more players to FIFA World Cup 2026\u2122 train-on squad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ten\u00a0players have been added to the CommBank\u00a0Socceroos\u00a0train-on squad for the FIFA World Cup 2026\u2122 pre-camp in Sarasota, Florida.\u00a0\"new_kit_2000x280.jpg\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A-League duo Aziz Behich and Patrick Beach (Melbourne City) join seven UK-based players and Netherlands-based Ajdin Hrustic (Heracles Almelo) in\u00a0departing\u00a0for Sarasota, Florida today.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cameron Burgess (Swansea City), Mohamed Toure (Norwich City),\u00a0Nestory\u00a0Irankunda\u00a0(Watford), Daniel Bennie (QPR), Raphael Borges Rodrigues (Wigan Athletic, on loan from Coventry City), Alex Robertson (Cardiff City) and Joe Gauci (Port Vale, on loan from Aston Villa) are the UK-based players.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bennie and Borges Rodrigues, both Australian youth internationals, have received their maiden CommBank\u00a0Socceroos\u00a0call-ups.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They join the eight players who arrived in Sarasota last week: Harry Souttar (Leicester City), Hayden Matthews (Portsmouth), Anthony Caceres (Macarthur FC), Mitch Duke (Macarthur FC), Brandon Borrello (Western Sydney), Nick D\u2019Agostino (Brisbane Roar), Nishan\u00a0Velupillay\u00a0(Melbourne Victory) and Mathew Leckie (Melbourne City).\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

Popovic and the CommBank\u00a0Socceroos\u00a0coaching staff are using the Sarasota camp to assess an extended number of players in a train-on squad, before finalising their\u00a0selection.\u00a0<\/p>\n

More players will be added to the train-on squad in the coming weeks. The final FIFA World Cup 2026\u2122 squad – up to 26 players – is due to be\u00a0submitted\u00a0to FIFA by June 1.<\/p>\n

The CommBank\u00a0Socceroos\u00a0kick off their FIFA World Cup 2026 campaign against T\u00fcrkiye in Vancouver on June 13 (June 14\u00a0AEST). Drawn in Group D, the\u00a0Socceroos\u00a0will also face tournament co-hosts the United States in Seattle (June 19) and Paraguay at San Francisco Bay Area Stadium in Santa Clara (June 25). \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The CommBank\u00a0Socceroos\u00a0will\u00a0relocate\u00a0from Sarasota, Florida, to Los Angeles on May 28, ahead of the May 30 friendly match against co-hosts Mexico at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Oakland, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, will then become home for the\u00a0Socceroos, with the Oakland Roots Sports Club –\u00a0located\u00a0on Bay Farm Island in Alameda – serving as the official Base Camp training site during the tournament.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

May\u00a05: Pre-camp in Sarasota commenced\u00a0
May 30: Friendly – Mexico v Australia, Rose Bowl, Pasadena, Los Angeles\u00a0
May 31: Arrive at base camp in Oakland, Alameda\u00a0
June 1: FIFA World Cup 2026\u2122 squads announced\u00a0
June 6: Friendly – Switzerland v Australia, Snapdragon Stadium, San Diego\u00a0
June 13: FIFA World Cup 2026\u2122 Group D – Australia v T\u00fcrkiye, BC Place, Vancouver\u00a0
June 19: FIFA World Cup 2026\u2122 Group D – USA v Australia, Seattle Stadium, Seattle\u00a0
June 25: FIFA World Cup 2026\u2122 Group D – Paraguay v Australia, San Francisco Bay Area Stadium, Santa Clara \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ten\u00a0players have been added to the CommBank\u00a0Socceroos\u00a0train-on squad for the FIFA World Cup 2026\u2122 pre-camp in Sarasota, Florida.\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,952,70064,85],"class_list":["post-664716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-featured","tag-socceroos-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664716","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=664716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}