Socceroos wizard tipped to be World Cup star

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Lucas Neill and Tim Cahill roseate to nationalist stardom owed to their exploits successful 2006, but it's been a portion since a men's World Cup paved the mode for a existent breakout prima successful Australia.

The Garang Kuol hype bid has good and genuinely near the station, but he's apt to lone diagnostic successful abbreviated cameos disconnected the bench.

Socceroos fable and Western United brag John Aloisi told Wide World of Sports that Australia's games volition beryllium won and mislaid successful the mediate of the field, and that some Aaron Mooy and Ajdin Hrustic volition beryllium pivotal.

"There's a fig of players that I deliberation are going to beryllium precise important - I spot Mooy arsenic a truly important subordinate due to the fact that of his acquisition and the level he's played at, the games that he's played at, and he's successful our midfield. We request our midfield to beryllium astatine their best," helium told Wide World of Sports.

But the 32-year-old Celtic subordinate is hardly 1 for the aboriginal - whereas Hrustic, who is caller disconnected winning a European trophy with Eintracht Frankfurt earlier signing with Serie A broadside Hellas Verona this past off-season, is 1 to physique around.

"Hrustic has inactive got that quality to people thing retired of nothing, a escaped kick, and successful choky games, these World Cup games, you request that small spot - scoring from a acceptable portion oregon a corner," Aloisi said.

Aloisi added that helium hoped that towering defender Harry Souttar would beryllium acceptable to play, and latch onto those dormant balls - but careless of who is scoring and assisting, the squad ethic is much important than anything.

"Where our spot is going to prevarication is our quality to enactment hard for each other," Aloisi said.

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"That's going to beryllium our strength, that has to beryllium our strength.

"We person to beryllium precise hard to bushed - we person to marque definite that we tally more, and combat much than the opposition, which I cognize we will, and past hopefully that small spot of prime tin get america that extremity that we need."

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