This is a mistake. He's still in Australia, he was at the Roosters game last night.

It would at least be their Primavera team. The fact that it says Milan Futuro it suggests that he will be with their second team (they play in Serie D).

Fair enough re the second point. My read was that a lot of people who were critical of POE's call-up were delighted about Overy's call-up, even though anyone who had seen either of them play knew POE was a lot of closer to national team level (and in my view at the time, better than some of the...

POE played 0 minutes in his first call-up

Popa called up James Overy, who was much younger and much less experienced than Okon-Engstler was when he was first called up. Overy had played U18s football all season, whereas Okon had played a full season of U23s and then played in the Portuguese second tier while also starring at the U20...

Thanks mate. I really appreciate you reading my stuff, let alone the kind words.

https://football360.com.au/australia-world-cup-analysis-entire-campaign/ World Cup review - looking ahead to the next cycle.

Towering, ball-playing, centre-back, came through at Perth, born in 2008, at BK Hacken in Sweden, on edge of first-team. Was player of the tournament at recent ASEAN u19s

Drew, Bennie and Garbowski

Wrote up a pre-game analysis of Egypt: https://football360.com.au/world-cup-socceroos-egypt-tactics/

Thank you. I really appreciate your very kind feedback.

Wrote a post-game analysis of the Paraguay game with a lot of discussion looking ahead to the Egypt game. Read it here: https://football360.com.au/socceroos-world-cup-tactics-paraguay/.

Fair point mate. Will be clearer next time. Thanks for reading.

I'm actually torn between Metcalfe, Volpato, Irankunda and Metcalfe, Irankunda, Yengi. I like Yengi as a chaos option and to occupy the centre backs. But I would like to see Irankunda start.

Paraguay preview: https://football360.com.au/socceroos-paraguay-world-cup-tactics/