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There is plenty to keep an eye of from an Australian perspective in Europe this season.

Ange, Nestor and co: These are the Aussies to follow in Europe

Almost everywhere you look across Europe’s most important football leagues, there’s a local storyline worth keeping an eye on this season. Here are the best of them.

  • Vince Rugari

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Ademola Lookman.

Fifty-one and done: Atalanta stun Leverkusen in Europa League final

Atalanta’s Ademola Lookman scored the first hat-trick in Europa League and UEFA Cup final history to condemn the German champions to their first loss of the season.

  • Padraic Halpin
Daniel Ricciardo

Those boots ain’t made for skolling

The shoey has become as much of an Australian cultural export as Bluey, but that’s no source of national pride.

  • Cameron Atfield
Leverkusen coach Xabi Alonso has masterminded an incredible campaign, and it could yet yield three trophies.

‘Neverkusen’ no more: This is world football’s best fairytale since Leicester City

Bayer Leverkusen have never won Germany’s Bundesliga title before – but under Xabi Alonso, they’re unbeaten in 41 games and in contention for a remarkable treble.

  • Vince Rugari
Australia’s Ajdin Hrustic scores the winner against the UAE, setting up a play-off against Peru.

‘He’s gone to another level’: How Hrustic went from forgotten man to Socceroos star

Ajdin Hrustic began World Cup qualifying seemingly as a fill-in. Now, he’ll enter the do-or-die play-off against Peru as Australia’s major goal threat.

  • Dominic Bossi
“Perfect match”: Socceroo Jackson Irvine has joined Germany’s cult club, St Pauli.

Socceroo finds perfect match in Germany’s home of pirates, punks and politics

FC St Pauli has fiercely remained a sum of its parts, and its culture has lured Australia’s own cult midfielder Jackson Irvine to the club.

  • Dominic Bossi
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Alou Kuol.

Why the A-League’s brightest talent couldn’t refuse Stuttgart’s ‘Diamond Eye’

Sven Mislintat has made a career out of finding value in places where others don’t bother to look. Alou Kuol could be his next great success story.

  • Vince Rugari
Alou Kuol has lit up the A-League this season, but his days in Central Coast Mariners colours appear to be numbered.

Kuol runnings: A-League’s brightest young star to be poached by German heavyweights

The teenager is on the cusp of a “life-changing” move engineered by the same talent-spotter who discovered Robert Lewandowski, Shinji Kagawa and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

  • Vince Rugari
Schalke team members with from left: Amine Harit, Schalke's Sead Kolasinac, goal scorer Matthew Hoppe, coaching staff Naldo, and Mark Uth celebrate their second goal goal against Hoffenheim, during their German Bundesliga FC Schalke 04 - 1899 Hoffenheim soccer match at Veltins Arena in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Saturday Jan. 9, 2021. (Guido Kirchner/dpa via AP)

Tasmania still the worst ever team in German soccer and they couldn't be happier

A Berlin football club with an unusual Australian link was worried it could lose its record for most Bundesliga games without a win.

An athlete wears a Catapult heart monitor inside the vest.

Australian sports tech firm Catapults over virus

Listed sports technology outfit Catapult has avoided becoming a casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic and is ready to tackle the 'new normal' for professional sports.

  • Colin Kruger

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