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Domestic Tiger (Facebook, Instagram) won best rock/alternative song in the 2019 NTMAs for Salt, it was an easy choice. The alt-rock act had all the earmarks of a ripping good band: tight musicianship, crafty songwriting, great vocals, and huge energy. I expected to see a lot more of them, but then the rona came to town and all things live music fell to pieces. To top it off, amid the pandemic lockdown, the former quintet shrunk when drummer Tom Johnson left for the Montana mountains while bassist Javier Cadena turned his attention to a new business venture. It s hard to be a rock band with no rhythm section.
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The Portugal-based siblings have been assiduously courted by the Blanquirroja (White and Red) in recent months, with coach Daniel Morales Briceno
looking to blood them in next month’s South America U-20 Championship before it fell victim to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ex-Joeys FIFA U-17 World Cup winger Tristan, 18, is in the final year of his four-year contract with Sporting Lisbon whilst fellow winger Aydan, 17 - who attended a single Joeys camp as a 14-year-old - is on the books of lower-tier C.F. Os Belenenses.
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They’re eligible for Peru through their mother Brigette, and the Peruvian approach made national news in her ancestral home with over 500,000 hits on social media and back page sports stories.
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At the last count there were at least 10 young Aussies chasing their dreams across four divisions in a nation which produced UEFA Youth League winner FC Porto last year, with Benfica finishing runners up to Real Madrid in this season’s final.
Benfica have been lauded for possessing the world’s top youth academy whilst Portugal’s national team are ranked sixth by FIFA in affirmation of a nation with much more going for it than just spawning Cristiano Ronaldo and Jose Mourinho.
Former Sydney FC rookie midfielder Teague, who is on the books of Primeira Liga Famalicao, has commanded most attention thus far of the Aussie foreign legion.