"Socceroo cover-up" reads the June 14 headline of Sydney's widely circulated Sunday Telegraph, with the round ball game earning rare front page coverage from the News Limited mouthpiece. It's not for exploits on the pitch that football is making headlines in Australia, but rather for the allegation that Everton midfielder Tim Cahill was expelled from a Kings Cross nightclub last week for drunk and disorderly behaviour. In an email circulated to media representatives just hours before newspapers hit the press, Football Federation Australia claims to have investigated the incident and found no cause to sanction Cahill.

World Soccer News for week of 6/14 Ozren Podnar reports... Jermaine Jones switches from Germany to the US team The German-American midfielder Jermaine Jones has become one of the first soccer players to take advantage of the new FIFA's rule on changing national teams. FIFA recently adopted Algerian FA's motion to suppress the age limit of 21 years for the change of national teams in case of players who have only taken part in international friendlies. Jones has played three friendlies for Germany and has transferred to the US team as soon as the change became available under the new regulations. No doubt, he will find more playing options in his father's country's team.