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Mark Viduka admitted that he may put his international career on hold following Australia's failure in Montevideo, but coach Frank Farina believes that he will reconsider.
The Socceroos striker has now been part of two failed World Cup campaigns - 1998 in France and 2002 in Japan and Korea.
Viduka said he would turn his attention to Leeds United's assault on the English Premier League after Australia lost its second leg World Cup qualifier 3-0 to Uruguay.
"I don't know if I'm going to back up after this," Viduka told The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper. It's exhausting, mentally exhausting.
"Yeah, I'll probably go back to concentrating on club football.
"I was planning on making the World Cup and all the hype around that, but it's not to be."
Viduka criticised Australia's tough World Cup qualification process but said Uruguay was a worthy winner.
"The whole two game thing just kills us. We have such an unfair route to qualify," he said.
"I mean, they've lost about 10 games in their group and we've lost one but we're out."
However, Farina said that Viduka may reassess his position in time. The comments were made immediately after the heartbreaking loss in Uruguay.
The Socceroos boss came to the defence of his burly striker when asked if Viduka's performances were sub-par.
"It's inevitable that people are going to be criticised. I will be criticised, other players will be criticised. It's the natural progression of things.
"It goes from disappointment to who do we blame to anger.
"Mark brings something to the team. I will never criticise any of the players. The commitment was there and it was unfortunate that we couldn't get the goal we needed."
Australian captain Paul Okon said the scoreline flattered the hosts.
"I don't think there were three goals in this game, and if there were three goals some of them should have been for us," he said.
"It's the hardest result I've had to deal with."
Australia goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer was more blunt in his assessment.
"In the two years since I've been involved, this was probably our worst performance," he said.
"You can blame whoever you want but, at the end of the day, we just didn't perform.
"We conceded two very soft goals and that killed us. We didn't deserve to go through. That doesn't mean it isn't hard to take."
Socceroos Stan Lazaridis and Tony Vidmar - who cried openly as he left the field after the 3-0 loss - held off on talk of retirement after the game.
"Hopefully next time we'll have a better qualifying process - direct qualification or going through Asia," Vidmar told The Sydney Morning Herald.
"Every time we miss out, it makes you want to do it more. I don't see why I should retire from the national team."
Socceroo Brett Emerton took the opportunity to apologise to fans.
"The fans have been fantastic to us. We knew how much reaching the World Cup meant to people and we feel terrible about it," Emerton told The Daily Telegraph newspaper.
"We feel worse for the people back home than we do for ourselves - this has gone straight to the heart."
Emerton admitted it was hard to block out the 65,000-strong Montevideo crowd during the crucial second leg World Cup playoff.
"I've never experienced anything like that...it didn't happen for us but that's not to say we didn't give it everything because we did," he said.
"We were all on a high after the first leg (won 1-0 by Australia) and we expected nothing less than to go through to Japan and Korea."
Australian players kept their deep disappointment to themselves after the 3-0 loss, failing to appear at a media conference for the world's press and jetting out of Uruguay within hours of the final whistle.
Coach Frank Farina was the lone Australian at a packed news conference at Montevideo's Estadio Centenario, alongside his opposite number Victor Pua and three Uruguayan stars.
