Nick Carle is one of three players to have been cut from the Australia squad after coach Pim Verbeek today trimmed his World Cup side to 28 players.

Middlesbrough striker Scott McDonald and Tromsø I.L. defender Jade North are the other two players to miss out on next month's tournament.

Verbeek is set to name his final 23-man group on 1st June when Australia play Denmark in the first of two friendlies prior to their first World Cup group game against Germany in Durban on 13th June.