Ajdin Hrustic points to bright future as Socceroos dust off cobwebs in Kuwait | Emma Kemp
04-Jun-2021 00:41:36 | Guardian
In his first start the playmaker gave coach Graham Arnold food for thought as Australia posted a fifth straight World Cup qualifying win
Graham Arnold has a general policy of trying to play his personnel in the positions they play for their clubs. It sounds awfully obvious, but a philosophy not always followed by international managers with experimental attitudes or simply a desire to embed their own brand.
It is a trick the Socceroos coach learned from Guus Hiddink while assistant under the Dutchman in 2005-2006, a means of getting the best out of a player within the limited time frame of a Fifa window, and one which has informed his second coming in the top job. In another almost comically simple move, Arnold has been Zooming his players, from Sydney to all corners of the globe, to ascertain the finer detail of each’s positions and the style in which they are filling them.
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