He won a champions medal in his first season under Kevin Muscat, then was best on ground in the 2017 grand final defeat to Sydney on penalties. But Victory have always played a key role in his professional life. After leaving Melbourne for Newcastle the following season it was Muscat's men who thwarted his dream of winning a second championship with another club as Victory controversially downed the Jets. Now Georgievski is back where life all began for the self-confessed "wog boy", having joined the Wanderers and Markus Babbel in time for their move to a new Parramatta stadium. "It's great to be back home finally after 13 years away. My family all live around here. I was born in Blacktown Hospital so it really is a homecoming," he says. Georgievski is not the only new face at Wanderers this season as Babbel has remade the squad.

"It's still new to me, the structure, the game plan, but I am not the only one. More than half the team is new, we all have that same feeling," he said. "But under Babbel it's very similar to when I was playing in Europe. He's German, I had a coach in Romania, Laurentiu Reghecampf, who had played in the Bundesliga for over a decade, so they had a similar style. I adapted quite quickly, which is a bonus for me." The Wanderers celebrate after their round one win. Credit:Getty Images Always a plain speaker, Georgievski welcomes the directness that the blunt Babbel often brings to proceedings. "Honesty. That's the beauty of it in my eyes, there's no beating about the bush, it's direct," he says.

"The conversation with one coach can be 20 minutes, with him it will be two minutes and it will be straight, direct and to the point. He will say what needs to be said and that's it, he then tells you to keep going. In a positive way. Mainly. "I think the main change at the Wanderers from last year to this year was the characters we have in the team and the experience. I am new, but plenty of other experienced men have also come in. "Pirmin Schwegler, Alex Meier, Daniel Lopar have come here, Mitch Duke was here already, Radoslaw Majewski [out injured], just the fact of a whole change in the atmosphere is a massive difference to what they [the club and its younger players] would have experienced in the past." Meier, the veteran striker, comes with plenty of Bundesliga experience. "He [Meier] is adapting well. He has opened up and shown us what sort of character he is, a bit of a joker, and I think that in time he will mould in perfectly. He has already made a lot of connections," he says.