A-League championship winner Bruce Kamau joins Greek Super League club

Bruce Kamau says the time is right to leave the A-League for the European stage to push his claims for a spot in the Socceroos squad.

Bruce Kamau has left the Wanderers to join Greek club OFI. Picture: Matt King/Getty Images

A Socceroos call-up looms as the ultimate reward for Bruce Kamau following his move to Greek Super League club OFI.

Attacking weapon Kamau, a standout for Western Sydney Wanderers last season, has signed a three-year deal with the Crete club.

Fuelling 26-year-old Kamau’s desire to succeed at his first overseas club is his determination to break into the Socceroos squad and help Australia qualify for next year’s World Cup in Qatar.

“OFI is club that suits me in terms of them wanting to play attacking football, and that’s one of my strengths, playing that style,” he said.

“It’s been an ambition of mine to go to Europe and to play regularly in the Greek Super League is going to help with my ambitions for the Socceroos as well, and I’m really pushing to get into the World Cup squad.

“For me it’s about keeping up the form that will get me on the radar of the coach (Socceroos boss Graham Arnold), and I know once I get my opportunity, I’ll take it with both hands.”

Bruce Kamau (centre) celebrates with his then Adelaide United teammates after scoring in the 2016 A-League grand final. Picture: Robert Cianflone/Getty Images

During his seven-year A-League stint, Kamau made 135 appearances and won a championship with Adelaide United in 2016, scoring in the Reds’ 3-1 grand final victory over the Wanderers.

He left Adelaide the following season to join Melbourne City, where he spent two years before his move to the Wanderers ahead of the 2018-19 A-League campaign.

Kamau scored 10 goals in three years with Western Sydney, with nine of them coming in the club’s 2020-21 season.

Despite the under-achieving Wanderers’ latest failure to play finals football, Kamau relished the opportunity given to him by Western Sydney coach Carl Robinson to again be used as an attacker.

“The previous two seasons prior to the one we’ve just come off, I was played out of position as a wing-back a lot so that took its toll on my body,” the former Australian under-23 international said.

“But now in this last season my body was feeling good, mentally I was in a good place, and I was playing good football. It came at the right time.

“Now at 26 at going overseas, everything is lining up at the right time. I can hopefully continue the form that I was in here over in Greece.”