“Pressure is not a must-win game of football. You can win or lose, but I don’t think anyone is going to die,” says Socceroos defender Milos Degenek – and he speaks from experience | GregBaum
Asked once about how he dealt with the pressure of a Test match, legendary Australian cricketer and WW2 fighter pilot Keith Miller replied: “That’s not pressure. Real pressure is flying a Mosquito with a Messerschmitt up your arse.”
His perspective on football as nothing and everything deepened when as 16-year-old he moved to Germany to play for Stuttgart juniors. He remembers having to travel an hour-and-a-half to training and back in minus eight degrees, wearing two pairs of track suit pants and four jumpers, but no jacket.“My first professional contract was $1000 a month.
“I won’t lie to you. I’m not a robot. I enjoyed the feeling of winning, obviously. It hit me once we got knocked out of the Champions League and Liverpool won it. That’s when it hit me: we beat those guys.”Tunisia and Denmark drew 0-0 in the first round of matches.“I haven’t seen a team in the World Cup yet with this much heart and passion and desire and love for their country,” he said. “I think they’re phenomenal.
Then there are the Tunisian fans, plentiful and loud. Though they will outnumber the Australians four or five to one, the atmosphere they create excites Degenek.It’s immaterial to him that the bulk of the fans will be against him. It matters only that they are there, hyper-stimulating all his senses. He’d love to be able to have spoils to take to the Australian corner at match’s end.
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