The first A - International game in the world was played in Glasgow on 30 November 1872 between Scotland and England. The game ended 0-0.
Nineteen years later, in 1901, South America followed when Uruguay met Argentina in a game won 3-2 by Argentina.  A year later the European continent debut international was the game between Austria against Hungary, won convincingly by the Austrians 5-0. Africa's first inernational was in 1910, and Asia's was in 1913.

Fifty years after the England - Scotland game, Australia played its first A - International against neighbour New Zealand.  The first Captain in this historical game was Alex (Alexander) Gibb. He remains the most capped Queensland State player to this time.

Many other Captains followed. Some for just one game, a few others for many years. Australia has had real leaders, men who wore the green and gold jersey with pride.
This is a gallery all A - International Socceroo Captains from 1922 to the present.

Alex Gibb 1922 - 23	Judy Masters 1924	W.Maunder 1924	George Smith 1933	Alec Cameron 1936
Bill Coolahan 1938	Jim Osborne 1938	Alex Heaney 1947	Reg Date 1947	Cec Drummond 1948
Bob Lawrie 1950	Tom Jack 1954 - 55	Kevin O'Neill 1954	Cliff Almond 1955	Joe Marston 1955 - 58
Bob Bignall 1955 - 56	Les Scheinflug 1965	Pat Hughes 1965 - 67	John Warren 1967 - 70	Stan Ackerly 1967 - 69
Peter Wilson 1971 - 79	Jim Rooney 1977 - 80	Gary Marocchi 1978	Edi Krncevic 1980	Tony Henderson 1980
Murray Barnes 1980- 81	P.Raskopoulos 1981	John Kosmina 1982- 88	David Ratcliffe 1985	Charlie Yankos 1986- 89
Joe Watson 1986	Alan Davidson 1988	Paul Wade 1990- 96	Graham Arnold 1993- 96	Alex Tobin 1995-99
Frank Farina 1995	Aurelio Vidmar 1995-01	Paul Okon 1996- 03	Milan Ivanovic 1998	Graig Foster 2000
Zelijko Kalac 2000	Kevin Muscat 2001	Tony Vidmar 2001- 04	Steve Horvat 2001- 02	M. Durakovic 2002
Mark Schwarzer 2004- 13	Josip Skoko 2004- 06	Craig Moore 2004- 10	Mark Viduka 2005-07	Lucas Neill 2006- 13
Vince Grella 2006	Brett Emerton 2007- 12	Harry Kewell 2008	Jason Culina 2010	Matt McKay 2012 - 13
Mark Milligan 2013	Mile Jedinak 2014	Tim Cahill 2014

These are only the Captain's from full A-International games in the starting eleven !

"To play for your country is the greatest honour, whether it is marbles or anything. When I received a telegram as a 19-year-old to say that I had been selected to play for the Socceroos, I went to the bathroom and cried my eyes out for hours. That is what it meant and that is what it should always mean"   Johnny Warren

"I`ve made my name here I couldn`t have in England. There I would have proably been a run of the mill club soccer player. But here I can`t go any further, I`m captain of the Australian soccer team, and elected by the players. It`s the greatest thing that`s ever happenend to me."
             Peter Wilson, Australias first World Cup Captain 1974.
 

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