As the Socceroos and Australian football fans make a pilgrimage to North America filled with uncertainty over what the next few weeks might bring, it is all too easy to forget who and what laid the foundations for the team’s sixth successive trip to a World Cup. For while the current crop of Socceroos are out to chart their own course at this year’s global showpiece, where their adventures will ultimately be recorded and remembered remains up in the air.
Football Australia is yet to establish a national museum more than a decade after it pledged to create a space that would ensure “a strong connection between football’s present and its past”. A small country pub with a big Socceroos history helps to fill the void.
