Thu, 28 Oct, 2021
Sydney: November 16, 2005 was one of the greatest nights in Australian football history. We rewind the clock 12 years to re-visit the incredible match as the Socceroos ended 32 years of hurt.
Wednesday’s clash against Honduras at Stadium Australia in Sydney may elicit a sense of déjà vu for Australian fans, coming almost 12 years to the day since their historic penalty shoot-out triumph over Uruguay that ended an agonising 32-year FIFA World Cup drought.
November 16, 2005 is a date seared into the memory of football fans in Australia.
Ask any Socceroos supporter where they were on that night and they will be able to regale stories of where they were, what they were doing and who they were with.
It remains one of the greatest sporting occasions in Australia’s long and proud history, sitting comfortably alongside the country’s win in the 1983 America’s Cup or Cathy Freeman’s gold medal in the 400m at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
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