The day after a phenomenal night at the G, where Melbourne Victory took on the iconic Merseyside club, Sticca was absolutely confident “they’ll be back.”

He has no doubts the historic first visit by the five times European champs will see more Aussie youngsters kicking a football but says that has never been the obstacle.

“How many (players) do you want? I don’t think that’s the problem,” Sticca told au.fourfourtwo.com.

“I think the biggest problem is encouraging governments to spend more money on resources and councils to build better facilities for soccer.

“For me the issue isn’t about getting more kids to play, it’s about having more stadiums and grounds to play on.”

Sticca hopes Wednesday night’s extraordinary event provides the exclamation mark to the case football supporters have been arguing for years.

“Of course, every time something like this happens there’s an impact,” Sticca added. “There’s a financial impact, money’s spent in the city, governments have invested – and hopefully this will encourage governments to invest in soccer again.

“Hotels, retailers – there’s a massive impact right throughout. I mean how many kids, how many charities, how many schools, how many clinics have benefited from all this?”

The morning after one of the best night of their lives, Aussie Reds fans were still on a high and predicting a positive flow on for the local game.

South Australia-based Wayne Psaila is a Red in more ways than one. Founder of one of the world’s biggest Liverpool fan sites – the L Files - he also supports A-League outfit Adelaide United.

“I’ll be honest – I wasn’t the only one with tears,” said Psaila of the glamour friendly. “It was pretty emotional. I’ve been to Anfield and I’ve sung You’ll Never Walk Alone with the Kop and obviously you can’t beat that.

"But this is a very close second. To see the MCG with tens of thousands of people standing up with their scarves above their heads and singing that was amazing and the video of that has just gone viral around the world.

“Internationally, there’s a lot of reports saying well done Melbourne Victory, Australian football well done. It shows we take our football seriously.

“And actually Craig Johnston (Aussie legend and former Liverpool player) said something the other night: ‘We no longer need to be embarrassed, no longer need to be ridiculed – even locally by the media – stand up and be proud of all that we have’. It’s going to have massive repercussions for sure.”

Richard Cholewick of Melbourne Liverpool Supporters Association (MLSA) said the depth of emotion that swept through the stadium came as no surprise.

“There’s a feeling that this will have a bigger kick up the backside of Australian football than even us making the World Cup (2006) after so many years out,” he said.

“People just don’t understand the impact of a club like Liverpool and the event of (Wednesday) night will have on kids and people going out there and playing the game.”

Sticca was always one of the true believers but he cautioned against hubris. It took six months of hard work to get Liverpool down under and any sense the flood gates will open is fantasy.

“I don’t think (Liverpool’s tour) makes it too much easier and I don’t think it necessarily makes it harder to get big clubs here,” he said.

“Commercially clubs would jump at it but their football coaches and football departments run a pretty tight ship and some of those guys don’t care about, with all due respect, Australia. They see it as an additional distance that they don’t want to necessarily travel.

“It’s all helpful but it’s not going to just wave a magic wand and cause an influx of good quality clubs.”

He added: “We’re always working on something – we’ll just keep plugging along.

"(These matches) fill a long off season, it keeps young players here busy, it keeps coaches busy – I think it’s good for the industry.

"We’ve gone from a very small industry to quite a substantial industry – and I think that’s important.”