Legion Walker, who grew up hunting for food on a small island off the Queensland coast, is using a rural football tournament as a stepping stone to play in Europe.
A Watch and Act warning is in place for Mount Sheila in the Shire of Ashburton, WA. Keep up to date withLegion Walker spent his childhood chasing wallabies and hunting food on a small island off Australia's north coast but dreamt of one day becoming a Socceroo.
Heinrich Haussler saw Rale Rasic take centre stage at the 1974 World Cup, and never expected to one day become close friends.Hailing from Germany, Haussler made a home in Inverell in the late 1980s and his passion for sport slowly tore him away from his career as a civil engineer."If you feel you have been overlooked by the football system, you can live your dream here.
"His peripheral vision and instincts as a hunter have worked really well [on the football pitch]," Mr Walker said.Legion will be one of at least a dozen footballers who competed at the tournament to make the trip. It comes after Ezra Frost embarked on a flight to Germany last year as one of Haussler's understudies.At just 19 and hailing from the small footballing scene of Lismore, Frost is about to return to Europe with German club FC Schmelz to take up a 12-month playing contract.He played in last year's edition of the Joeys Mini World Cup that was held in Lismore before being selected to join the tour to Germany.
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