Here’s an interesting interview on Celtic TV with our two Syndey home-Bhoys Harry Kewell and Aaron Mooy as Celtic’s attention starts to drift towards the Syndey Super Cup action and the two matches against Sydney FC on Thursday 17 November at the Allianz Stadium, Moore Park then against Everton a week of Sunday (20 November) at the Accor Stadium at Sydney Olympic Park.
Both matches of course will be shown live on Celtic TV – other than for supporters in Australia who will presumably all be at the games!
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The Socceroos star Aaron Mooy of course is one of the four Celtic players who will not be participating in these games due to their World Cup commitments, the others being Cameron Carter-Vickers with United States, Daizen Meade with Japan and Josip Juranovic with Croatia.
That might be frustrating in a sense for Mooy but it’s fair to say that he does have bigger fish to fry in Qatar with an Australian side that sadly is missing the sublime skills of their former talisman Tom Rogic.
Kewell has more to say that the quiet, mild-mannered Mooy who incidentally has a huge amount of respect for the Celtic coach who is playing a significant role at Lennoxtown as part of Ange Postecoglou’s staff.
On the significance for Australians to get the chance to see top sides like Celtic and Everton in the flesh, rather than just on television or You Tube, Harry Kewell had this to say:
“For me it’s important because, I talk on a personal note here, where I’m from we grew up playing the game and we watch a lot of football on the TV and when you had an opportunity as a youngster to come and see a team live, it was important to us to see what the stars over in Europe were doing.
“So to be able to come out now with a huge club like Celtic, not only in my country but in my state and virtually in my neighbourhood… I’m proud to be part of Celtic and I can’t wait to get out there and show the Australian public and all the Celtic fans what they actually are missing by watching it on TV when they come out to see football live. It’s a completely different game.”
As he has done previously Kewell is happy to talk about just how impressed he has been with the standards he’s experienced at Celtic since his arrival back in the summer. “The standard’s really high here from the moment I walked in, the levels I’ve been working at previously and then when you step up to this level, I was taken back and I was thinking ‘wow’,” Harry Kewell said.
“From the first moment they work hard, they very rarely lose the ball, I mean if one of the teams get three or four passes in the opposition ain’t really seeing it for another 15 or 16 passes so could I be involved in that?
“I could probably be a manikin somewhere in the middle and just probably conducting it but no I don’t think so. I’ve had my time, it’s his (Mooy) time now to go out there and shine.”
Here’s the interview via Celtic TV’s You Tube channel…
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