Eight NSW players selected for Australian Under 23s squad

Mustafa Amini, Kerem Bulut, Antony Golec, Matthew Jurman, Dimitrios Petratos, Sebastian Ryall and Matthew Ryan have all been included while Terry Antonios was initially selected but did not pass a fitness test due to a hamstring injury.
Adelaide United defender Golec and Melbourne Victory midfielder Isaka Cernak get their first call-up for this round of the qualification campaign along with Brisbane Roar midfielder Rocco Visconte who has recovered from a hamstring injury that has kept him out of squad for the last three matches.
Overseas based striker Bulut also receives his first ever selection in a Qantas Australian U23s squad having previously made appearances for the Qantas Joeys and Qantas Young Socceroos.
Discussions are also ongoing to add other overseas-based players, Aaron Mooy (St Mirren, Scotland), Tommy Oar (FC Utrceht, Netherlands) and Mathew Leckie (Borussia Monchengladbach, Germany), to the Qantas Australian U23s squad for the UAE match on 22 February with their club commitments making them definitely unavailable for the Uzbekistan match.
The majority of the Qantas Australian Under 23s will depart Australia on 29 January for a pre-match camp in the UAE before heading to Tashkent to face Uzbekistan at the JAR Stadium on Sunday 5 February (Kick-off 8:00pm local (2:00am AEDT.  The Qantas Australian U23s will then return to the UAE for a training camp to prepared for their next qualification match against the UAE at the Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday 22 February (Kick-Off 5:30pm local (00:30am AEDT).  The training camp will also include a friendly match against the Philippines senior national team at the Zabeel Stadium, Dubai on Thursday 16 February (Kick-off 7:30pm local (02:30am AEDT).
The teams in each group of the third round of qualifying play in a home-and-away format from 21 September 2011, to 14 March 14, 2012, with the winner of each group directly qualifying for the London 2012 Olympic Games Football competition.
The three second-placed teams from the third round will clash in a playoff at a centralised venue from March 25 to 29, 2012, and the winners of this group will meet the representatives of CAF (Africa) for a berth in the 2012 London Olympic Games.
Qantas Australian U-23s Squad List
AFC Asian Qualifiers for the 2012 London Games ? Round 3
V Uzbekistan and UAE ? February 2012
Terry ANTONIS  Sydney FC
Aziz BEHICH Melbourne Heart
Mark BIRIGHITTI Adelaide United
Oliver BOZANIC Central Coast Mariners
Kerem BULUT   FK Mlad? Boleslav, Czech Republic
Isaka CERNAK  Melbourne Victory
Mate DUGANDZIC Melbourne Heart
Diogo FERREIRA Melbourne Victory
Matthew FOSCHINI Melbourne Victory
Antony GOLEC Adelaide United
Jason HOFFMAN Melbourne Heart
Matthew JURMAN Brisbane Roar
Ben KANTAROVSKI Newcastle Jets
Daniel MULLEN Adelaide United
Mitch NICHOLS Brisbane Roar
Dimitrios PETRATOS Sydney FC
Sebastian RYALL Sydney FC
Mathew RYAN Central Coast Mariners
Adam TAGGART Perth Glory
Rocco VISCONTE Brisbane Roar
Stand by players
Mustafa AMINI  Central Coast Mariners
Bernie IBINI       Central Coast Mariners

Upcoming Match Details
AFC Asian Qualifiers for the 2012 London Games ? Third Round
Uzbekistan v Qantas Australian U23s
Jar Stadium, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Sunday, 5  February 2012
Kick-off: 8:00pm local (2:00 am AEDT)

International Friendly Match
Qantas Australian U23s v Philippines
Zabeel Stadium, Dubai
Thursday 16 February 2012
Kick-off: 7.30pm local (2:30am AEDT)

AFC Asian Qualifiers for the 2012 London Games ? Third Round
UAE v Qantas Australian U23s
Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Wednesday, 22  February 2012
Kick-off: 5:30pm local (00:30am AEDT)

AFC Asian Qualifiers for the 2012 London Olympic Games ? Third Round – Groups
Group A: Korea Republic, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman
Group B: Australia, Iraq, Uzbekistan, UAE
Group C: Japan, Bahrain, Syria, Malaysia

AFC Asian Qualifiers for the 2012 London Olympic Games Round ? Points Table and Match Schedule – Group B

                        P          W         D          L          F          A          GD       Pts
UZBEKISTAN    3          1          2          0          2          0          2          5
IRAQ                3          1          1          1          2          2          0          4
AUSTRALIA      3          0          3          0          0          0          0          3
UAE                3          0          2          1          0          2          -2         2