Socceroos show faith in star Harry Souttar as defender admits club’s future in doubt after poor run

The Socceroos have made Harry Souttar the face of the Australian team despite the defender’s recent form struggles and difficulties finding a club.

Souttar has starred in a new commercial for Subway, as the Socceroos defender admits his club’s future is uncertain with Leicester City looking for a new manager.

Souttar and teammates Adam Taggart and Joe Gauci appear in a Subway commercial launching Tuesday.

In the advertisement, Gauci kicks a ball from the stands to Souttar, who controls it and passes it to Taggart to shoot on goal while a gardener gets carried away by the moment and begins to comment on the action.

It’s fitting that Souttar was chosen for the role after his ‘Souttar Sub’ request went viral last year.

“Chicken breast, ham, a little onion, cheese and chips sprinkled on top, ketchup, three biscuits and a Pepsi Max,” Souttar told his astonished teammates at the time.

Meanwhile, the imposing Socceroo admits that the future of his club is cloudy city ​​of leicester looking for a new next manager Enzo Marescathe game for Chelsea.

Souttar was almost certain to leave Leicester after being in the overseas team in the Foxes’ English Championship-winning season with Maresca.

But with the Italian manager having been signed by Chelsea and the central giant still having four years left on his Leicester contract, Souttar’s future appears to be up in the air and may depend on who the Foxes sign as Maresca’s replacement.

“I don’t have a coach at the club at the moment,” Souttar said on Sunday in Perth, where the Socceroos are preparing for Tuesday night’s FIFA World Cup qualifier against Palestine at HBF Park.

“They (Leicester) have yet to make a decision on that… but we’ll cross that bridge (on their future) when we get to it, when we get back to pre-season (training).”

Souttar said that regardless of which club he was at next season, it was imperative that he start playing regularly in the first team again if he wanted to maintain his place in the Socceroos’ best 11.

“It’s quite simple actually: I just need to get back to playing football,” said Scotland-born Socceroo, 25, who was also sidelined for much of 2022 after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his knee.

Socceroos coach Graham Arnold has told Souttar to “sort out” his career at the club.

“After his ACL injury and this year, two big years out of football, he’s barely played,” said Arnold, who admitted Souttar might have been better off if Maresca had stayed at Leicester in terms of having more clarity about your future.

“If the coach had stayed, it probably would have been clearer what (Souttar’s) decision could have been, but with a new coach coming in, it could be completely different.”

It is not certain Souttar will start against Palestine after playing the entire match in the Socceroos’ 2-0 win over Bangladesh in Dhaka last Thursday.

Arnold has hinted that up to nine changes could be made to Australia’s starting team as part of a pre-planned squad rotation.

There is a strong chance that Cameron Burgess and Alessandro Circati will form the Socceroos’ centre-back pairing on Tuesday night after neither was used against Bangladesh.

“All over the field there are guys fighting for positions,” Souttar said.

“Every day in training it increases and each person wants to play.

“We are all friends, but we all fight for that shirt.”