Circati was born in Italy but then moved to Perth at age 1. Then didn't go back until he was 17 or 18 so he was definitely raised in Australia.

A lot of these examples re agility and acceleration may likely be due to the extra focus on the physical as per previous poster. You can only work your body mechanics so much that your body disposition allows. Possibly we share a similar challenge with England where we tend to focus on upper...

Time will tell Stunning...

Please for all our sakes Joe just cut your losses take your career and run! Still just turned 26 so has time but he HAS to play.

I don't mind the narrative where the FA start to 'force' the issue with a sort of 'let's see how Tony wants to play now?' post World Cup with all the discourse with our identity and playing style etc. And you may be right that this may be another string to their bow in the way of building a case...

It's hard to believe that Leicester would sell a player that has just had ANOTHER great World Cup and captained his country out of the group stage for £2mil when they signed him for £15mil two and a half years ago. I mean they may need the cash post relegation but there's no way they are...

Brazil game in Brisbane sold out to general public in 2 days. Definitely some filling of the coffers by FA. Can understand it considering their current financials. Ultimately as long as Popa doesn't park the bus and looks to evolve our play it shouldn't matter who the opposition is.

Am I the only one who sees the similarities between our World Cup exit where we retreated into this defensive creatively stunted football mode in a high pressure moment, and the mind bending football that England displayed after they scored this morning? They are after all the 'mother land' and...

Ok so after reading all that I have come to the conclusion that AI slop most definitely stands for Australian Identity....slop :cool:

I'm late 30s but I know a few 20 something chicks at work that play football and they seem to have taken more of an interest in the Socceroos from this world cup because of none other than Ale and Cristian...having a few good looking roosters in the side always helps with marketing! ;)

100% good sir! I mean there is an 18 year old centre back that is a product of the Australian football system that is legitimately wanted by Barcelona! This is beyond massive and seems to be representative of a broader cohort of players coming through. Many of them have just rubbed shoulders...

I mean it's reported that there may be at least 3 moving to big 5 clubs in the next few months...that's definitely a start!!

It's happening. In the next two cycles vast majority of our first XI will be playing in top 5. No doubt.

I think Football Australia understand they can't make the coin that they need to without having blockbuster players scoring blockbuster goals. Having Nestory constantly trying to win a heading comp against 2 or 3 slug heads is going to kill our main financial revenue stream...that is our...

No not at all. It would have been a VERY brave call by the FA to make a 'riskier' appointment with the time and pressure they were under to save a failing qualifying campaign.