Thu, 28 Oct, 2021
Sydney: They may have had to do it the hard way, but Australian defender Trent Sainsbury says the team never stopped believing that they would qualify for the FIFA World Cup 2018 Russia.
After 22 matches, that began back in 2015 in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, Australia can now low claim to having the longest qualifying campaign of any team to have successfully qualified for the FIFA World Cup after overcoming Honduras 3-1 at Stadium Australia on Wednesday night.
“We hold the record now for the most games to qualify for the World Cup, so that’s a bit special in itself,” Sainsbury said after the match.
"At Russia 2018, everyone’s going to be behind us and we’re going to go out there with no fear of any team that we come across because that’s the way we’ve gone against every single team we’ve come up against.
“We’ve had a lot of ups and downs but at the same time this team have never stopped believing.”
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