‘We believe in each other’: How Socceroos aim to stick it to Denmark | GregBaum
On a nomadic career path that began when he left the Melbourne suburb of Heatherton at 15 for England and curls through Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and now Italy,One at Schalke 04 in Germany preached a kind of parable with props. “He put out 11 sticks and he tied them up, and he put one stick on the right,” Hrustic said. “And said, ‘I want you to realise something’.“No one knew what he was talking about. One of the boys said, ‘there’s 12 sticks out there’.
Rehab kept him off the pitch for about a month. “When I went out on that pitch [again], I realised how much I love football,” he said. “How he’s still smiling and being so positive is unbelievable,” said Hrustic. “Because if it was me, I wouldn’t be able to smile. Seeing and experiencing what he has, his attitude is unbelievable.”
Hrustic said it was vital that Australia were not lulled. “If you go into a game with a mindset that a draw’s enough, it can be a long 90 minutes,” he said. “The mindset we have against Tunisia, we pressed as much as we could, we always had pressure on the ball, which means they had less time to think.”
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