When Nestory Irankunda was born, the chances of him becoming Australia’s youngest-ever World Cup goalscorer were roughly equal with the tumbleweed in the Outback: zilch.
Birthed in a refugee camp in Tanzania in 2006, to Burundian parents who had fled their homeland due to civil war, it was not an auspicious, nor very Aussie, opening chapter.
But the 20-year-old is now a national hero Down Under after scoring the first goal in a 2-0 win against Turkey to put them in reach of the knockout stages.
‘It is f****** unreal and a dream come true,’ he said at full time.
‘It feels amazing. You’ve got
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