Perceptions are interesting. I watched the interview and my read was playing football for Australia is a distant second to Italy. That's no commentary on his feelings for the Australia or anything like that. Just where he wants to play football. I'll get behind him if the unlikely happens and he plays for us at the World Cup, but I reckon it's too late now.
He said posters from 2006 world cup.
I hope some of these dual nationals play for us and we aren't just helping Italy and Greece finally qualify for world cups
Yeah exactly, that's why I really think we need to cap all these boys for the youth teams.
Probably not much but losing Christian Vieri surely was a hit
Even if we give them youth caps there's no guarantee that they'll progress to the senior team though because they may still want to change allegiance later down the line, but ideally by calling them up for the age grade sides we would have them eventually commit to playing for Australia.
big upgrade on craig moore?
indeed triantis left us after playing a zillion games for our youth teams
Given the continued pursuit of Volpato you still have to wonder what blew up in camp. The kid grew up wanting to play for Australia. There is no way he gave it away without a real reason.
Graham Arnold handed him a Slouvaki with ketchup on it
The big money of Europe has grown exponentially. You get discounted if you play in Australia. Would Dukes be recognised now or be consigned to League 2
a 189cm striker with good technique that scored nearly a goal a game as a u19?
I was gonna say we did well with James Overy (kept capping him for Australia so he chose the Socceroos over Scotland). Hopefully he breaks into Man U's first team even if it's just for one game.
really curious how far away he is. He looks like he could be a league level at minimum and I wonder if a loan could help him. If you leave game time too long it can make you decline
He only turned 18 less than six weeks ago and he's already training with ManU first team so I don't think any time is being wasted.
I think a loan would be helpful for Overy but you have to be careful because if he ends up not getting game time whilst loaned out then there's the risk of his development stagnating or even regressing, and it may well be more detrimental for him.
Completely agree, but I think at this stage everything is going along swimmingly.