Coach: Guus Hiddink
Tactics: Fit and physical with a sprinkling of quality.
Star Player: Mark Viduka - strong striker with a keen eye for goal.
Verdict: Scraped through to the finals with a narrow play-off win against Uruguay - a success which shows they are not to be underestimated. Will be difficult to beat due to their physical nature although in Viduka, Harry Kewell and Craig Moore they have players who have featured at the top level in Europe. And in Hiddink, they have a coach who guided South Korea to the semi-finals in 2002.
Ten things you didn’t know about Australia
1. Its an offence to drive a dog or goat harnessed or attached to a vehicle in a public place.
2. The Great Barrier Reef in Australia is the largest organic construction on earth.
3. The stonefish, which lives off the coast of Australia, is the most poisonous fish in the world.
4. It is illegal to wear hot pink pants after midday Sunday.
5. Tasmania, Australia has the cleanest air in the inhabited world.
6. Australia is the only country to have monotremes. A monotreme is a mammal that lays eggs but suckles its young on milk once they have hatched (e.g. the platypus).
7. Australia is the only continent without an active volcano.
8. The smallest 'country' in the world to have its own top-level domain name is Norfolk Island, off the coast of Australia.
9. The longest hole on a golf course is the sixth hole at the Koolan Island Course in Australia. The hole measures 860 yards.
10. There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people. The kangaroo population is estimated at about 40 million.
