Rale Rasic had decided to leave some of the more experienced players in favour of youth so he could see just what they were capable of ahead of the 1973 World Cup qualifiers.
Before the tour Rasic said that he wants to find a new boss type sweeper and he chose Wollongong coal miner Peter Wilson for the job and Wilson was to be judged the best player of the tour.

The tour started with two matches against our pacific neighbours New Caledonia. The two matches were televised and shown the following day.
The Socceroos won the first match 3:1 (Goals: Warren, Richards, Vojtek). Jack Reilly played so well that he was described as Australia’s best goalkeeper
since Ron Lord. Doyle scored the only goal to win the second game too.

From Noumea, the Socceroos flew to Hong Kong to battle the leading club team Jardine. Australia won 3:0. Vojtek showed all his brilliant skill,
scoring two goals. Denton scored the other goal and Harry Williams made his debut for Australia. Australia’s next match, against Macao, was
no more than a workout. Two goals by Denton and one by Warren gave the Socceroos a 3:0 lead after only 15 minutes against the local amateurs.
Keddie, Irvine, Blue and again Warren and Denton scored and Dave Keddie earned the thanks of his mates by netting with his second goal 20
seconds from the end. Final result 9:0. The players were thus allowed to stay out until 2am, visiting local casinos or night clubs.

Now the tour go's on with three games in Teheran. The first was against Oghab Eagles Air Force (0:0) and Peter Wilson was by far the best player afield. The second was against Iran. Partisan refereeing was not enough to stop Australia winning it’s match 2:1, with goals by Adrian Alston and Ray Richards while Ali Parvin, who was later to play against Australia in the World Cup, scored the Iranian’s goal from a penalty. Close to the end of the game, Colin Curran saved the ball on the goal line. The third game was against a Teheran XI. Denton scored twice and Doyle once in the 3:3 draw.

Australia went to Israel to play against it’s full national team. Vojtek, playing his first match in midfield instead of attack, was one of Australia’s stars, while substitute Ray Richards scored the goal in the Socceroos 1:0 victory. The game was some revenge on Israel. Beating them at home infront of 25,000 people didn't make up for not going to the 1970 World Cup in Mexico, but it went some way to easing the pain.
A second match against club side Hapoel Tel Aviv in Haifa, presented Rasic with the opportunity to give his reserve players a run. Australia won 2:1 with goals by Richards and Keddie.

Australia vs. Greece line up

Next came one of Australia’s greatest soccer triumphs – perhaps the greatest outside the World Cup. November 17, Panathinaikos Ground,Athens was the venue and not even the great Mimis Domazos could prevent Australia from beating the full Greek national team 3:1. In fact little was seen of Domazos, as he was blotted out by his shadow, Jimmy Mackay, who managed to score a goal as well as tend to his defensive duties. Alston and George Blues notched the other two goals. The result that caused a sensation in Greece and sent mild shock waves throughout Europe. The Greek side of that era was probably the best international team that country has ever produced.
They had not lost for five years at home and the Australian team was probably the last team they would have thought could end their run of victories. It was the biggest defeat the national team had ever experienced in Athens.

Adrian Alston scored again in Australia’s 1:1 draw with Greece B in Kavala before the Socceroos arrived in London, to be greeted by complete apathy.

Australia had to play a few matches in England, but the British Press ignored the visit almost entirely.
Australia won the first game against top English second division team Luton Town with 2:1, Mike Denton and Adrian Alston had the lasting pleasure of scoring the two Socceroo goals.
Few days later they lost to Manchester City. Exhausted by the killing pace of the latter part of the tour, and sapped of strenght by ankle deep mud, Australia succummed to a 0:2 defeat.
There was no joy in Dublin either, as Hale scored in the 29^th minute to give the League of Ireland XI a 1:0 victory over the tired tourists. It was the last game in Europe on this trip.