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.

@TCo10 Ong Tiong Choon ‘ The work of Johnny Warren and Les Murray has always been about welcoming people to our great nation and helping them settle into their new environment through football.’

@official_lesdog ‘The greatest thing about travelling is getting to see different places through the medium of football. The first time I travelled was when I was 18. I went to the UK by myself just to watch Southampton play.’

@tobi_roo “The craziest thing I’ve done so far is travel from Basel to San Pedro Sula to watch the Honduras game. After that I flew straight to Sydney”

@AnthonySiokos “As Johnny Warren said, acts of self-interest ruin this game.”

@OzGoals “I turned up in downtown Kaiserslautern with 1000’s of other Aussies…after 32 years this was our time.”

@adamOsaussies “Aussie fans who identify football as their number one sport are much more involved in the politics of the sport”