Ryan Griffiths has struggled to find a place with his Romanian club Rapid Bucharest and was loaned out last season to Chinese Super League side Liaoning.

He returned to Rapid at the end of the season but still couldn't get a start and was last heard of being loaned out to a second division side in Romania amid rumours he would sign for Newcastle Jets.

However Pim Verbeek today revealed he was the surprise call-up to the Socceroos squad for this weekend's friendly against Singapore,although there is confusion over whether he is still with Progesul Bucuresti or has re-signed on loan with Liaoning as the FFA believe.

Ryan's brother Adam is also in the squad, but there's still no place for Joel after his petulant outburst on how easy the Socceroo's Qatar match was to win which is understood to have angered Verbeek.

Verbeek has also added Fulham’s Adrian Leijer to the team along with Harry Kewell, Michael Beauchamp and James Troisi who have all arrived early from Europe.

Only the players involved in their respective Asian Champions League matches to be played tonight are yet to arrive with Melbourne Victory players due in from Bangkok on Thursday afternoon and Adelaide United’s players to arrive later that same evening.

The match against Singapore will be shown live on Fox Sports and is a vital warm-up ahead of the World Cup qualifier against China to be played four days later.


MATCH DETAILS

International Match
Singapore v Australia
Saturday 22 March 2008
National Stadium, Singapore

QANTAS SOCCEROOS SQUAD TO PLAY SINGAPORE

Michael Beauchamp (Nuremberg, Germany), Nigel Boogaard (Central Coast Mariners), Mark Bridge (Sydney FC), Leigh Broxham (Melbourne Victory), Nathan Burns (Adelaide United), Billy Celeski (Melbourne Victory), Ante Covic (Newcastle Jets), Bruce Djite (Adelaide United), Tarek Elrich (Newcastle Jets), Adam Griffiths (Newcastle Jets), Ryan Griffiths (Liaoning, China), James Holland (Newcastle Jets), Mile Jedinak (Central Coast Mariners), Harry Kewell (Liverpool, England), Adrian Leijer (Fulham, England), Jade North (Newcastle Jets), Nikita Rukavytsya (Perth Glory), Archie Thompson (Melbourne Victory), Nikolai Topor-Stanley (Perth Glory), James Troisi (Newcastle, England), Tando Velaphi (Perth Glory), Ruben Zadkovich (TBC)