Slovenia will be competing with Australia during the International friendly football match this Wednesday. The match will be held at the Ullevaal Stadium at 20:15 British Summer Time.

This is regarded as the first international football match for both Slovenia as well as Australia after the World Cup 2010. Slovenia wasn’t able to join or qualify during the 16 round of the 2010 World Cup. Slovenia won over Algeria with 1-0, lost the game versus England with 0-1 and made a draw versus United States with 2-2 in 2010 World Cup group round.

Slovenia was ranked in the 19^th position garnering 917 points while Australia was ranked the 20^th with 911 points during the FIFA / Coca-Cola world rankings.

On the other hand, Australia did not qualify as well during the last 16 round in 2010 World Cup. The said country won over Serbia with 2-1, lost against Germany with 0-4, as well as made a draw against Ghana in with 1-1 during the 2010 World Cup group round.

Just recently, the Slovenian team surprised the Russian team in the two-legged play-off to qualify for this summer’s World Cup. Slovenia also proves that they have nothing to lose in South Africa through South Africa attacking midfielder Valter Birsa. Birsa as well admitted thay they really weren’t confident that they will qualify for the 2010 World Cup and weren’t expecting all the winning matches, points as well as victories.

The Slovenian team also claims that the confidence they have had helped them a lot since especially when they played against Slovakia twice plus they played versus the Russian team in the play-offs. The team just showed a lot of courage and got their reward which was winning and qualifying for the tournament. The team promises to carry on and fight for every ball which they continue to do up to the present. They still have 3 matches to deal with against big teams; however their goal is to gather more points as possible as well as to finish ahead of them.