Pim Verbeek now looks to include the V Bomber in his World Cup plans after Viduka said he would be willing to play a part in some of the qualifiers.

Manager and player held their first face to face meeting this week with Verbeek emerging from those discussions optimistic over the Newcastle United forward’s future role.

Australia faces a punishing schedule of World Cup qualifiers in June with four games in relatively quick succession – all this just three weeks or so after the end of the English Premier League season.

That will certainly ask questions of Viduka but former Wellington and Adelaide skipper Aloisi feels there can be no half measures when it comes to your country. It’s all or nothing.

Aloisi told au.fourfourtwo.com: “I don’t think you should try and force anyone to play. If he wants to continue playing for Australia then that’s great.

“It might well be that he wouldn’t be required or picked for every match and that should be the coach’s call.

“But you should be putting your hand up to answer the call at any time, that’s what Tim Cahill has done for example.

He added: “If you have someone who can effectively pick and choose then I think that has the potential to create problems in the camp and you certainly don’t want that.

“If players come into the team and perform well for their country they want to think that they’ve done enough to get a real shot at the next match.”

But all that matters to Verbeek is that Viduka has decided it isn’t yet time to hang up his international boots and the coach seems happy to adopt an approach that will only see the Newcastle man called up if he is 100 per cent fit.

Verbeek said: “Mark wants to go to the World Cup. He said the moment he was fit he would be there, but there will be games where I need different strikers.

“That’s very much okay with him. He wants to be part of the group. He absolutely doesn’t want to say he will only come if he is a starting member."