Aaron Mooy gently agonises over every one of his answers for 10 full minutes before eventually confirming what was already long suspected. “I’m not much of a big talker around the room,” he says quietly, inviting supportive laughter. “Everyone that knows me knows that.”
The midfielder, seated at a press conference table in front of a dozen journalists, had just been reminded of his relative seniority compared to many of his World Cup teammates and asked if he was providing a strong guiding presence in the dressing room.
