Tim Cahill stands in Olyroos way at under-23 Asian Cup in Qatar [Video]

When the Socceroos went to Qatar for the 2022 World Cup, their point man was Tim Cahill. Officially he was the team’s head of delegation, but secretly he was one of their biggest assets: it was through Cahill’s local connections that they were granted access to the Aspire Academy, the $1.3 billion sanctuary where he is the chief sports officer, and where Graham Arnold’s men could shut out the noise of the outside world and get down to business. And that’s to say nothing of the expertise from his four World Cup appearances that he was able to lend players.

The Olyroos are in Qatar for their Olympic qualifiers, which start on Monday night (AEST), and many of the players in Australia’s squad would have grown up idolising Cahill, who was the country’s greatest-ever goalscorer until Sam Kerr broke his record two years ago.

Tony Vidmar, their coach, used …