Ajdin Hrustic knows better than anyone how fleeting World Cups are.
Now 29, the classy playmaker is determined to help the Socceroos' wave of young guns seize their own opportunities on football's grandest stage.
"You see the young boys coming through, just like I was once young," Hrustic said on Thursday (Friday AEST).
"And I enjoy it. Like, I like having words with them, I do it with most of the boys.
"It's experiencing and enjoying that moment, right?
"The World Cup doesn't come around every day, so you've got to get ready for this one, because it's four years until you get the next one.
"The question is, will you be at the next one? So you've got to enjoy it and really get 100 per cent out of it."
