SYDNEY Customized Oakland Raiders Jersey , Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- Australian footballer Lucas Neill will fight to retain the Socceroos' captaincy before the international friendly match against Costa Rica in Sydney on November 19, local media reported on Friday.
There is speculation that Neill will be stripped of the Socceroos' captaincy and teammates Tim Cahill and Mark Bresciano are in line for the role.
Neill told reporters in Sydney on Friday that the speculation has gone on a bit too long.
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Ange Postecoglou, coach of Australia's national football team Giorgio Tavecchio Limited Jersey , the Socceroos, has said he will decide the captaincy the day before the game against Costa Rica.
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"Any player who gets asked if they want to be the captain of Australia should answer 'it's a dream come true Jared Cook Limited Jersey , it's an honour'," Neill said.
"But it's not a game. The captaincy is not something you can just hand around. It's not something that we should just try and vote for. You have got to earn it and somebody has got to give it to you."
The 35-year-old said his primary focus was keeping his spot in the team.
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China's space lab Tiangong-2 roars into the air on the back of a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, Sept. 15, 2016. (XinhuaJu Zhenhua)
JIUQUAN, Sept. 15 (Xinhua) -- China's Tiangong-2 space lab blasted off on Thursday, marking another milestone in its increasingly ambitious space program, which envisions a mission to Mars by the end of this decade and its own space station by around 2020.
In a cloud of smoke underneath a mid-autumn full moon, Tiangong-2 roared into the air at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gobi desert, on the back of a Long March-2F T2 rocket at 10:04 p.m. Beijing Time.