The scoreboard may have said they lost 2-0, but the diaspora found plenty to celebrate in Sydney’s multicultural hub
en, fifteen, twenty minutes after the final whistle. On the music played, drumbeats echoing around western Sydney’s sporting theatre, reverberating out from Lebanon’s active support. The celebrations held up by a spirited Cedars performance on Thursday night.
He was more open about the second, a Kye Rowles slash off a second half corner. “A fluke,” Arnold interrupted when his young defender, having scored his first international goal, was asked to describe the moment. “I didn’t mean to slice it, I meant to smash it,” Rowles said. “But it went where I wanted it to go, I guess.”
In the third row, Yessar Daou had come to the match with his family and girlfriend, and taken in a meal at a Parramatta Lebanese restaurant on his way to the ground. “We’re always celebrating big when it’s a wedding or anything like that, but we rarely do when it comes to sport,” he said. “The result actually doesn’t matter.”
But not all who went on Thursday were regulars. This was, after all, just the fifth visit by the Socceroos to Sydney in six years.
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