Canberra's Carl Valeri in Socceroo squad

Canberran Carl Valeri is included in the Socceroo squad to play Uruguay on June 2nd. This is the last game before the squad for the Asia Cup is announced.

Mark Viduka, Harry Kewell, Tim Cahill and Vince Grella are just some of the notable absentees. All should be available for the Asian Cup.

I would expect Valeri to gain his second cap, and Valeri will almost certainly gain a place in the Asia Cup squad following his strong debut in the last friendly against China. He is seen as understudy to defensive midfielder Vince Grella.

Grella's other replacements are Josip Skoko(left outof this squad) and possibly Mark Milligan (Olyroo).

Full squad is:
Daniel Allsopp (Melbourne Victory)
Michael Beauchamp (Nurnberg)
Mark Bridge (Newcastle Jets)
Nick Carle (Newcastle Jets)
David Carney (Sydney FC)
Simon Colosimo (Sivasspor)
Jason Culina (PSV)
Brett Emerton (Blackburn)
Adam Federici (Reading)
Ryan Griffiths (Liaoning)
Brett Holman (NEC Nijmegen)
Brad Jones (Middlesbrough)
Patrick Kisnorbo (Leicester)
Scott McDonald (Motherwell)
Lucas Neill (West Ham)
Jade North (Newcastle Jets)
Matthew Spiranovic (Nurnberg)
Shane Stefanutto (Lillestrom)
Mile Sterjovski (Basel)
Archie Thompson (Melbourne Victory)
Michael Thwaite (Wisla Krakow)
Carl Valeri (Grosseto)
Luke Wilkshire (FC Twente)