{"id":251184,"date":"2022-11-17T23:47:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T00:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=251184"},"modified":"2022-11-18T10:58:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T10:58:45","slug":"socceroos-wizard-tipped-to-be-world-cup-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=251184","title":{"rendered":"Socceroos wizard tipped to be World Cup star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lucas Neill and Tim Cahill rose to national stardom due to their exploits in 2006, but it&#x27;s been a while since a men&#x27;s World Cup paved the way for a true breakout star in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The Garang Kuol hype train has well and truly left the station, but he&#x27;s likely to only feature in short cameos off the bench. \ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Socceroos legend and Western United boss John Aloisi told Wide World of Sports that Austral\ufeffia&#x27;s games will be won and lost in the middle of the field, and that both Aaron Mooy and Ajdin Hrustic will be pivotal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/football\/fifa-world-cup-looking-back-at-socceroos-draw-with-croatia-in-2006\/91356c07-e71b-4452-abaa-99db5cc589f3\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"&#x27;Pure chaos&#x27; that rocked do-or-die WC game\"><strong>&#x27;Pure chaos&#x27; that rocked do-or-die WC game<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\ufeffREAD MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/football\/fifa-world-cup-2022-sam-kerr-cristiano-ronaldo-kylian-mbappe-ronaldinho-ronaldo-virgil-van-dijk-kevin-de-bruyne-phil-foden-nike-commercial\/eb5ca906-ae1c-4d9b-a171-882d8cd7bc02\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Sam Kerr stars in &#x27;unreal&#x27; Nike World Cup ad\"><strong>Sam Kerr stars in &#x27;unreal&#x27; Nike World Cup ad<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/football\/fifa-world-cup-2022-past-failures-haunt-france-as-socceroos-prepare-to-pounce\/dfdad341-fa08-4a32-9462-3dd8825b4cd1\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\" &#x27;Absolutely catastrophic&#x27; France implosion brewing\"><strong>&#x27;Absolutely catastrophic&#x27; France implosion brewing<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;There&#x27;s a number of players that I think are going to be very important &#8211; I see Mooy as a really important player because of his experience and the level he&#x27;s played at, the games that he&#x27;s played at, and he&#x27;s in our midfield. We need our midfield to be at their best,&quot; he told Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n<p>But the 32-year-old Celtic player is hardly one for the future &#8211; whereas Hrustic, who is fresh off winning a European trophy with Eintracht Frankfurt before signing with Serie A side Hellas Verona this past off-season, is one to build around.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"e29386fc-5b86-412b-9527-f9b9bed635e3\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/e29386fc-5b86-412b-9527-f9b9bed635e3\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1920\" data-height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Hrustic has still got that ability to score something out of nothing, a free kick, and in tight games, these World Cup games, you need that little bit &#8211; scoring from a set piece or a corner,&quot; Aloisi said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>World Cup previews:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/football\/fifa-world-cup-2022-full-list-every-nations-squad-qatar\/76499e16-0baa-480e-a171-e1e6130787cd\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"All 32 squads\"><strong>All 32 squads<\/strong><\/a> <strong>|<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/football\/fifa-world-cup-2022-group-a-draw-fixtures-predictions-squads\/1f09fa9d-2830-42b3-b85a-dd67740c7f76\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Group A\"><strong>Group A<\/strong><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/football\/fifa-world-cup-2022-group-b-draw-fixtures-predictions-squads\/0b7b7527-2b19-449d-a58a-1339ab06d358\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Group B\"><strong>Group B<\/strong><\/a>| <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/football\/fifa-world-cup-2022-group-c-draw-fixtures-predictions-squads\/c30f1152-f201-44d4-8a96-dde11f517ba2\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Group C\"><strong>Group C<\/strong><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/football\/fifa-world-cup-2022-group-d-draw-fixtures-predictions-squads\/76d2c9b3-1b82-42b5-b7e8-fc0c0bc380f9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Group D\"><strong>Group D<\/strong><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/football\/fifa-world-cup-2022-group-e-draw-fixtures-predictions-squads\/cc318081-12b7-44c6-8d9f-ff865483e456\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Group E\ufeff\"><strong>Group E\ufeff<\/strong><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/football\/fifa-world-cup-2022-group-f-draw-fixtures-predictions-squads\/db1c5641-a961-4824-95fb-007ee3fde52e\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Group F\ufeff\"><strong>Group F\ufeff<\/strong><\/a> <strong>|<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/football\/fifa-world-cup-2022-group-g-draw-fixtures-predictions-squads\/0e2d4c4c-b46a-4d4b-a91c-0edc5237823a\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Group G\"><strong>Group G<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/football\/fifa-world-cup-2022-group-g-draw-fixtures-predictions-squads\/0e2d4c4c-b46a-4d4b-a91c-0edc5237823a\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Group G\ufeff\"><strong>\ufeff<\/strong><\/a> <strong>|<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/football\/fifa-world-cup-2022-group-h-draw-fixtures-predictions-squads-cristiano-ronaldo-piers-morgan-interview\/dd5fa6ce-6e17-40f6-8ef2-559710f2bce9\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Group H\ufeff\"><strong>Group H\ufeff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aloisi added that he hoped that towering defender Harry Souttar would be ready to play, and latch onto those dead balls &#8211; \ufeffbut regardless of who is scoring and assisting, the team ethic is more important than anything.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Where our strength is going to lie is our ability to work hard for each other,&quot; Aloisi said.<\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6315531934112\" src=\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/11\/466322\/pickerimage.jpg\" alt=\"Dwight Yorke previews the 2022 Football World Cup - Brought to you by Sportsbet\" data-vms-id=\"ref:clag8qpqt000u0qtamivb7kix\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;That&#x27;s going to be our strength, that has to be our strength.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We have to be very hard to beat &#8211; we have to make sure that we run more, and fight more than the opposition, which I know we will, and then hopefully that little bit of quality can get us that goal that we need.&quot;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff\ufeff<em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/edm?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\"><em><strong>clicking here<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Lucas Neill and Tim Cahill rose to national stardom due to their exploits in 2006, but it&#x27;s been a while since a men&#x27;s World Cup <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=251184\" title=\"Socceroos wizard tipped to be World Cup star\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251186,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251184\/revisions\/251186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}