International Career
He represented Australia at the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship held in Nigeria. Griffiths made his debut for the full national team on 9 October 2005 against Jamaica, scoring a goal before celebrating by hopping up and down like a Kangaroo. This was Australia's final warm up match before their World Cup qualifier playoff match against Uruguay.
In January 2008, he was named in the 22-man Socceroos squad for the training camp at Sydney, but did not play the World Cup Qualifying match against Qatar due to injury.
In May 2010, after not making the 31 man provisional squad for the 2010 Fifa World Cup, he made the following Statement:
There was no phone call, not even a text. Not once did he come and watch a game, Griffiths told the Herald via email yesterday. He made the effort to watch the third division in England or third division Italy, and sometimes they were not even on the bench.
It really pisses me off when he said we have better strikers than Joel Griffiths, how the f--- would he know? He's never seen me for two years and when he did I was MVP and golden boot.
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