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After being overwhelmed 4-1 by France, one other loss in opposition to Tunisia on Saturday will affirm Australia’s exit on the group stage.
For Degenek, that state of affairs is not stress. Actually, it is from it.
“You say ‘must-win’ sport the place you assume it is stress … that is not stress,” Degenek informed reporters.
“Stress is me as an 18-month-old child fleeing a conflict.
“Stress is me as a six-year-old being in the midst of a conflict.
“That is stress. Stress is just not a must-win soccer sport as a result of you may win or lose, however I do not assume anybody goes to die.”
Degenek was born in Knin, Croatia.
When he was 18 months previous, he and his Serbian household fled amid the Croatian conflict of independence to Belgrade. They rode on a tractor for 9 days to get there.
The Degeneks lived as refugees in Arandelovac, about 70 kilometres south of Belgrade.
When Degenek was six, the Kosovo conflict arrived on his doorstep.
He remembers taking part in with buddies, listening to sirens warning of a looming assault, then spending as much as 48 hours sheltering in an underground bunker, consuming canned meals.
Degenek and his household migrated to Australia as refugees when he was seven.
When he was 16, he moved to Germany to pursue a soccer profession.
“My first expertise was being dropped in the midst of Germany, in Stuttgart, and having to take an hour-and-a-half to coaching in the midst of a freezing winter,” Degenek stated.
“It is minus eight (levels)… two pairs of trackies beneath each other, and 4 jumpers, as a result of I did not manage to pay for to purchase a winter jacket – till I acquired given one by my agent.
“That is the place I learnt my first struggles of individuals considering ‘oh, you go to Europe, you take pleasure in soccer, you are going to be knowledgeable and earn some huge cash’.
“My first skilled contract was $,1000 a month. I wasn’t incomes large bucks.
“And that is the place I realized the struggles and acquired that mentality and thought to myself: I’m coaching with one other 20 guys however I wish to be that one to go on to make it.”
Degenek calls it the lion mentality.
“You both eat otherwise you get eaten,” he stated. “That’s the easiest method to put it.”
Degenek stated the Socceroos would wish the lion mentality to prevail in opposition to Tunisia, who he watched with admiration throughout their drawn opener in opposition to Denmark.
“I have not seen a group at a World Cup but with this a lot coronary heart and keenness and need and love for his or her nation,” he stated of Tunisia.
“They have phenomenal need… the blokes love one another and so they have this hearth of their eyes and so they’re very sturdy in the best way they go about issues.”
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