‘I’d love to race him’: Irankunda scores Socceroos double then set sights on Gout Gout

• 20-year-old scores twice in 5-1 win over Curaçao

• ‘Two completely different sports, but we’re both athletes’

Celebrating with a backflip-infused, Michael Jackson-inspired dance, Nestory Irankunda scored twice on Tuesday night in Melbourne to propel the Socceroos to a 5-1 victory over Curaçao, before revealing he has another goal in mind.

The confident 20-year-old said he had been “watching from afar” with admiration the athletics phenomenon Gout Gout, and declared he wanted to race the national 200m champion.