Petr Kuzmin: When it turned out that the Socceroos would play in my home city of Samara, it felt like two very important but distant parts of my life and identity were coming together , so I wanted to do something special.

@TPORankings: It’s very easy to say ‘that won’t work’. It’s much harder, but infinitely more rewarding, to ask ‘how can that work?

@PaulMavroudis ‘…coming back to South changed that. I made new friends, and I got back into university, found the things that I am kinda good at, and a lot of that has to do with being at South Melbourne.’