Kusini Yengi interview: Portsmouth's Australian import on his Socceroos debut and seizing the chance to deputise for the injured Colby Bishop
Sky Sports exclusive: Portsmouth's Kusini Yengi on overcoming injury after a blistering start at Fratton Park, deputising for Colby Bishop, making his Australia debut and more; Watch Portsmouth vs Bolton live on Sky Sports Football from 7.30pm on Monday; kick-off 8pm
Digital football journalist @DanLong__
Saturday 9 December 2023 08:00, UK
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If history is anything to go by, Australian players tend to do pretty well in English football.
There are a handful that can be considered Premier League greats; we're talking Tim Cahill, Mark Viduka, Harry Kewell, Mark Schwarzer.
Six players from Graham Arnold's most recent Socceroos squad ply their trade in the Sky Bet EFL — and perhaps the most exciting of the bunch is Portsmouth's Kusini Yengi.
The 24-year-old striker joined Pompey from Western Sydney Wanderers in the summer, having started out in his home city at Adelaide United, and as such, is still something of an unknown entity.
But in an exclusive interview with Sky Sports — ahead of Portsmouth's crunch clash with Bolton at Fratton Park on Monday, which is live on Sky Sports Football — he is only too happy to discuss his formative years in the game.
«It was great at Adelaide United,» he says. «I was playing in a professional environment with a lot of the kids I grew up playing with; we all progressed from the youth team into the first team quite quickly and that made for a wonderful experience.
»Cristiano Ronaldo was always my biggest idol. He made me fall in love with football. The first time I saw him was when he had just moved to Real Madrid and so I fell in love with them as well.
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