To those who know Australian football’s new est star , Nestory Irankunda has always been different. But it wasn’t just for his footballing talent, his personality caught the eye even as an early teen. Airton Andrioli was the technical director for South Australian soccer when he was told about this prodigious talent in the Adelaide area , so he felt he needed to go and see for himself. And what the Brazilian coach witnessed was an accurate advert of what Irankunda was capable of. Andrioli said : “ H e did what he normally does, scored a bomb of a goal from outside the box. “And then the coach took him off and he was not happy. “He ripped his shirt off and chucked it on the ground, just next to the bench when I was watching the game.” For some scouts, that would be an instant display of poor attitude and a difficult character. For Andrioli ? It added an extra element to the Australian striker’s game on t...
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