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Harry Souttar: Stoke City and Australia defender on his 'amazing' World Cup experience

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As World Cup campaigns go, Harry Souttar's probably proved a bit more memorable than most.

Stoke City's giant Scottish defender raised a few eyebrows north of the border in 2019 when, despite having represented Scotland at under-17 level, he opted to play for his mother's country, Australia.

He scored twice on his debut in the Aussies' opening World Cup qualifier, two more in his second game, only to then suffer a knee injury on international duty that threatened to keep him out of the finals in Qatar.

But, after just one game back for Stoke, he was deemed fit enough to go to the Persian Gulf where he played every minute of all four matches as the Socceroos reached the last 16.