Melbourne Victory’s Evan Berger has a quick chat with Australian Football Weekly
G-day Evan, what-s the funniest thing that-s ever happened to you on a night out?
Just the usual, you get home and your mates draw on your face…
What did they do to you exactly?
I got kitted up in all the latest lipstick – it was pretty funny.
Was it funny? Funny but pretty? Or just pretty funny?
[Laughs.] Well more funny than pretty, definitely not a pretty sight!
Do you think you-re a better penalty taker than Kevin Muscat?
Not a chance [laughs]. He-s got a terrific record, so I-ll leave it to the skipper when we get one.
Just how scary is Muscat?
He-s very scary when he-s angry at you – what you see is what you get with Kev, so if he-s not happy, or
he-s got a point of view, he lets you know about it.
Have you ever been on the end of a Muscat spray?
Yes I have – it-s not very good…
Was that the most terrifying moment of your entire life?
Yeah, probably the scariest minute of my life [laughs].
What had you done? Not tackled or tracked back perhaps?
Yeah a bit of that, just being lazy and stuff like that – a bit ill disciplined in training. I copped a bit of a spray.
So you definitely learnt your lesson then?
Yeah exactly right, learnt it pretty quickly…
You haven-t scored a goal for Victory yet, what will you do when you do?
Have you seen that Hungry Jack-s ad where that guy-s looking to order and he does that hand thing for the Whopper burger?
Hahaha oh yeah…
Because of my last name, that-s probably what I-d do.
We-ll keep an eye out for that! Obviously we have to ask you now: what-s your ultimate burger?
Something like a McOz: just beef pattie, bacon, pineapple, salad. Something with the lot.
That-s not as bad as that Hungry Jack-s quad heart-stopper thing, that thing-s like death inside a bun. Have you
had one?
No I haven-t. They monitor our skin folds at the club pretty closely so I think you-d get caught out if you had one too many of them.
Who in the world would you most like to come up against?
Steven Gerrard.
How do you reckon you-d go?
He-d probably win!
We reckon you-d give him a run for his money…
Yeah, I-d like to think so!
Favourite club as a boy?
Manchester United.
Favourite player?
Ryan Giggs.
Ever done karaoke?
One of the initiatives into the Victory team squad is to sing a karaoke song on your first away trip at dinner.
And what did you do?
500 miles by The Proclaimers.
Did you get booed?
No I didn-t, I got a clap [laughs].
What three people dead or alive would you invite to a dinner party?
Tiger Woods, Jim Carrey and Eva Mendes.
You gotta have a chick there, especially one like Mendes…
You gotta have something like that thrown in there!
Ok, last one Evan: If I said I was going to put $10 on a team to win the A-League this year and it-s up to you who I bet on, who-d you tell me to go for?
Put it on us!
Fair enough – cheers Evan.
See ya mate.
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