Timothy Joel "Tim" Cahill (born December 6, 1979 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays as an attacking central midfielder for the Australian national team and Everton Football Club. He is best known internationally for scoring the first goal by an Australian at a FIFA World Cup. In 2007 he also became the first Australian player to score at an Asian Cup.

is a Japanese football player who currently plays for Celtic of the Scottish Premier League. He is one of the most prominent and successful Asian players to play in Europe now and on 13 September 2006 became the first Japanese player to score in the Champions League and the second Asian player to do so. He has won the Asian Cup in 2000 and 2004 with the Japanese national football team, and was named Most Valuable Player in the 2004 competition.

Mark Bridge (born November 7, 1985 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) player. He currently plays as a striker for the Australian A-League club Newcastle United Jets. He is currently a member of Australia U-23 national team. He was also called up to Australia senior squad for their Asian Cup qualifiers against Kuwait on August 16.

Travis Dodd is an Indigenous Australian football (soccer) player. He currently plays as a right midfielder for Adelaide United in the newly-formed Hyundai A-League. He played junior soccer at Elizabeth before joining the South Australian Sports Institute in 1996. He was Adelaide City’s fourth youngest National Soccer League (NSL) player of all time (16 years 281 days), and the fifth player in NSL history to score a hat-trick after coming on as a substitute (2003, …

Sasho Petrovski (born March 5, 1975) is an Australian football (soccer) player with Macedonian ancestry. He is a striker who currently plays for the Central Coast Mariners in the Hyundai A-League. He has the honour for having scored the second hat trick in the A-League, one day after the first was scored. In the old National Soccer League, Petrovski played 94 games and scored 47 goals.

Brett Holman (born March 27, 1984, in Bankstown) is an Australian football (soccer) player. He currently plays as a striker for the Dutch club NEC. He made his debut for Australia against Bahrain on February 22, 2006, in an Asian Cup qualifier. He scored his first international goal against China in a friendly on 24 March 2007. He previously played for Parramatta Power in Australia before moving to Dutch football club Feyenoord Rotterdam in 2002.

Danny Vukovic (born March 27 1985 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) player. He currently plays as a goalkeeper for the Australian A-League club the Central Coast Mariners. He has previously played for Bonnyrigg White Eagles and Parramatta Power. Vukovic made his debut in the A-League during September 2005, against Melbourne Victory. He got the opportunity after first-choice keeper, John Crawley, suffered a season-ending hip injury.

Josip Skoko (born December 10 1975 in Mount Gambier, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) midfielder of Croatian descent who plays for Wigan Athletic in the Premier League. He is an Australian international and made his debut for Australia against Macedonia in 1997. Skoko has been a main-stay of the "Socceroos" side since his debut, participating in two World Cup qualifying campaigns.

Ryan Griffiths (born on 21 August 1981 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays at Liaoning FC in China Super League. He joined Liaoning in March 2007 after a successful trial.He previously played for Rapid Bucharest,Northern Spirit and Newcastle United in the Australian NSL. His two twin brothers Joel and Adam are also professional footballers, who respectively plays for Newcastle United Jets and Brentford at present.

Simon Colosimo (born on January 8, 1979 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian football (soccer) player. Colosimo is a cousin of Australian actor Vince Colosimo. He currently plays as a central midfielder for the Australian A-League club Perth Glory. Colosimo made his international debut for Australia in 1998 against Fiji at just 19 years of age.

is a Japanese football (soccer) player. He currently plays for JEF United Ichihara Chiba. He is a midfielder known for his tireless workload. He made his first appearance for the Japan national football team on August 13, 2006 in an Asian Cup qualifier against Yemen. He is a University of Tsukuba graduate.

Budi Sudarsono (born in Kediri, East Java 19 September 1979) is an Indonesian footballer. He normally plays as an attacking midfielder or can be a striker and his height is 174 cm. He plays for the Indonesia national football team and he scored a goal in 2004 Asian Cup for Indonesia against Qatar in group A and Indonesia ended up winning 2-1. It is Indonesia's first win in Asian Cup history since their first participation in Asian Cup 1996.

Nick Ward (born March 24, 1985 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) player. He currently plays as an attacking midfielder for League One side Brighton & Hove Albion, although he is on loan at the club from Q.P.R.. His efforts in the inaugural A-League season of 2005-06 resulted in him becoming the first player to win the A-League's Rising Star Award with Perth Glory, along with also winning the Perth Supporter's Player of the Year, …

Ahmad Elrich (born May 30, 1981 in Sydney) is an Australian football (soccer) midfielder who currently plays for Fulham F.C. in the English Premiership and for the Australian national team. He is of Lebanese descent and is the older brother of Newcastle Jet Tarek Elrich. Elrich signed a 3 year deal with Fulham in the Summer of 2005 from K-League club Busan I'cons. He has also previously played for Parramatta Power. He was loaned out to F.C. Lyn Oslo from April to May 2006.

Alexander Wilkinson (born August 13 1984 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) player. He currently plays as a right full back for the Australian A-League club the Central Coast Mariners. Alexander's bright career began in Epping Boys' High School where he showed excellent talent on the field as a sportsman and off the field in his sportsmanship. He represented Australia in 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship.

John Hutchinson (born December 29, 1979 in Morwell, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) player. He currently plays as a left midfielder for the Australian A-League club Central Coast Mariners. Hutchinson was awarded the Chairman's Award for outstanding service to the Mariners in 2005-06. One of the most highly-lauded prospects to emerge from the famed Gippsland Falcons youth setup.

Ante Čović is an Australian football (soccer) player of Croatian descent. He is a goalkeeper who currently plays for Newcastle United Jets in the Australian A-League. He formerly played for Hammarby in Sweden, as well as Marconi Stallions and Sydney Olympic in Australia's old National Soccer League, PAOK Salonika and AO Kavala in Greece and Dinamo Zagreb in Croatia.

Mohd Noh Alam Shah is a Singaporean footballer who plays as a striker for Tampines Rovers FC in Singapore's S.League and is widely regarded as one of the best strikers in South East Asia. He was part of the Singapore team which won the Tiger Cup regional soccer championship in 2005. His good form was impressive enough to earn trials at Notts County F.C. and Skonto Riga but they failed to materalise due to work permit issues and language problems respectively.

Rochy Putiray(born Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia June 26, 1970) is a soccer player from Indonesia. Rochy was probably the most easily recognised player on the Indonesia national football team because of his brightly coloured and constantly changing hair. In his career, he has played for Arseto Solo, Jakarta F.C.(1999-2000), Persija Jakarta, Instant-Dict(Hong Kong), Kitchee FC and South China AA(Hong Kong).

Fathi Kamel Marzouq (born in 1955) was one of Kuwait's most talented players in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He helped Kuwait qualify to the World Cup in 1982 by scoring a goal against New Zealand. Fathi also helped Kuwait win the Asian Cup in 1980. In Kuwait, it is said by old citizens that Fathi played in the Al Qadsiya vs. Santos FC, which Al Qadsiya lost 2-1.