Zawko grew up in South Australia and played for local Adelaide clubs Salisbury Villa, Port Adelaide and Eastern United.

His European journey originally began at the youth team of L’Aquila in Abruzzo. Zawko moved on to spells with San Gregorio in the sixth division, and then Real Guilianova.

“I did pretty well in that season, scored a couple of important goals and the team that won the league signed me up for the next season, Guilianova,” he said.

But financial problems hit the club and the striker was on the move to Chieti FC.

He would eventually link with Serie D side Gladiator, before it too ran into financial issues.

“It’s pretty common here, teams with financial difficulties,” Zawko concedes.

“Gladiator is a pretty good team. But again there were the same sort of problems.”

After six months with CD Alumecar City in Spain, the centre forward returned to Italy at the start of 2020.

Now off-contract, he is hunting for a new club.

“At the end of the season I was in Spain, but I wasn’t getting too much out of it there so I came back to Chieti,” Zawko explained.

“I arrived in January. I didn’t have much time with the team [before the Coronavirus hit]. Everything’s easing up now. Things are starting to reopen. It’s a bit calmer.

“When it first came in everything got shut down, now the worst is over.”

Still just 22, Zawko is aming to keep his Italian ascension going.

“I’m still not where I want to be, but I’m getting there slowly,” he said.

“I want to get to Serie A. Hopefully in the next couple of years - that’s what I’m aiming for.”