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I think the ASA's hard stance on punishing players who don't rock up for international duty is a good move. Some of our players such as Kewell pick and choose when they want to play for their country and it's not on! Tell me any other country which has the problem we have, where some players try their best to get out of playing for their country. Kewell has an "ankle injury", why didn't he still make the effort to fly over to South America and make himself available anyway like Vince Grella did? (he has an ankle injury yet still flew from Italy to Sth America). It's ridiculous, and a good move by ASA to punish the players.
HOWEVER, having said all this, Viduka in my opinion has a very good excuse and should not be punished by ASA and FIFA for not going to Venezuala. However I believe he is the only one with an exception. It was a bad move by Australia to even select him in the squad, knowing he'd just come back from Melbourne.
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