Before Thursday night’s win over Lebanon, the last time John Iredale – Australia’s newest Socceroo – played a competitive match on home soil was back in high school.
In 2017, the then-Sydney FC junior had to ask permission from a teacher to duck out of class and take a phone call from Sky Blues head coach Graham Arnold.
He told Fox Sports Australia: “I was training with Arnie and the first team a couple times before that. I remember I was at school and Arnie messaged me saying: ‘can you call me quick?’
“I was in class but lucky I was really close with the teacher – I said: ‘can I pop out for a second?’”
Lucky Iredale did return the phone call, because just a few hours later he was pulling on the Sky Blues jersey and making his first-ever senior appearance in a cup match against the Darwin Rovers.
Iredale continues: “Arnie said: ‘can you get on a plane today to…
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