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"This is the only world game. Forget Rugby League, Rugby Union, AFL, this is the true international game. If we can embrace it and excel and really show the world how much we love our sport,' Elias, a NSW Origin and Kangaroo great, told au.fourfourtwo.com.

"The momentum, the crowds, people are really starting to take an interest in soccer - it's been a long time coming in this country. When the wave hits, let me tell you, it'll be like a tsunami.

"It'll be huge. We love sport but this is the one sport that everyone can relate to. I can see into the crystal soccer ball and I can see that we will probably miss out on 2018 but will get 2022."

Australia will push ahead with its bids for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, despite FIFA chief Sepp Blatter's recent highly controversial statement.

Blatter said that only European cities were likely to be considered for the 2018 Cup. However FFA Chairman Frank Lowy has played down these comments and remains focussed on hosting either events rather than just 2022.

Australia will lodge its bid book which will include infrastructure and stadia details with FIFA in May ahead of the December announcement.

Added Elias: "I'd like to see World Cup soccer every two years."

Another Aussie sporting hero Melinda Gainsford-Taylor waded into the debate. She said the example of other World Cups provided inspiration for what can be achieved in this country.

"I just saw the movie Invictus about South Africa's [Rugby] World Cup which was amazing for them," the world championship and Commonwealth Games sprinter said.

"The whole country gets behind it. And it's like when the Sydney Olympics came here, for those two or three weeks everyone's happy."

Elias and Gainford-Taylor attended Wednesday night's FourFourTwo Fussball World Cup and played together as a team. They joined model Annalise Braakensiek and A-League stars at Star City Casino for the inaugural event. 

Gainsford-Taylor, a Sydney FC fan whose son plays junior football, echoed Elias' call to arms for an Aussie World Cup and for rival codes to work together on stadium arrangements for the greater good.

 "When it comes down to the crunch I'm sure everyone can nut it out and sort that situation out ,"she said. "It would be great to get a World Cup as soon as possible.

"It does bring people together. That's what sport does - it inspires people and brings us together as a nation and makes you feel patriotic."

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