It has been a massive last 24 months for Socceroos star Craig Goodwin, who just last week took out the Johnny Warren Medal; officially being crowned as the A-league’s best player.

Rewind to last November, Goodwin scored Australia’s opening goal at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar against then-defending champion France to give the Aussies a shock lead.

But it hasn’t all been smooth sailing for Goodwin, with his father Tony telling Flow FM that despite several cruel setbacks across his junior and senior career, his son just didn’t have it in him to give up on the game.

It is rhetoric that draws obvious parallels to the plight of Australian manager Ange Postecoglou, who has just been announced as the new manager of Tottenham Hotspur and in doing so will become the first Australian to ever manage in the English Premier League, often cited as the highest level of the game.