 How many days celebrates Australia's cultural diversity? It's about inclusiveness, respect and a sense of belonging for everyone. My earliest memories is obviously playing for the junior Prime Minister Melita Eagles over at Ray Marshall and just seeing that I was in a team full of our relatives and our parents all came here at the same time, had kids around the same time and we all grew up together and playing with different cultures, different races, different religions but it was still like a family because we still had our cousins playing in the same team but the memories back then were awesome because we got to mix with other races and get to know different people's cultures and I never knew many Maltese before that and I made a lot of friends from Melita, from the Maltese community. Being Muslim, being of Lebanese descent, how important is that to you? Not just in football but just in your everyday life. It's hugely important, it's part of who we are, it's part of where our parents came from and the morals and the respect that we've been brought up and the beliefs to believe in and the way to treat people. Our religion has taught us to respect everyone equally and never ever, ever judge anyone by their race or religion or colour and it's just made me more humble and appreciative of other people, other cultures and it's made me want to get to know other cultures so for me it's to just respect people and treat everyone like the way you want to be treated. Yeah, also we're talking about Paramata Melita but also my club, the Western Sydney Wanderers and I remember the A-League when it first started, there was one Sydney team that didn't really represent who we were from the Eastern suburbs and I had to move two hours up to Newcastle to get given my opportunity midway through my career to get the opportunity to represent where we're from from the West. It's good to see how they engage in the community, how they're going to give every kid an opportunity for us kids from the West. Playing at Paramata Melita, what do you feel your club brings? You've been out of the game for a while now, being back in it. What do you think is the difference between then and now? Well coming back to the club, I realised when we went to training that such a diverse multicultural cultures here, the kids, so many kids from so many different backgrounds that weren't playing football when we were younger. You've got the Iraqi kids, you've got Afghans, you've got African boys, you've even got Indians. These guys weren't playing football when we were younger and it's great to see that they've migrated here, come here as refugees and trying to make a better life for themselves as our parents did and having the opportunity to play football just the same way we did brings a smile to my face because you see them, when you play football you're free, you're happy. No matter what's happening in your life, when you're on the pitch, you forget about it and you can enjoy yourself and any problems you've got, they're left outside. Seeing such diversity in this football club especially, so to come here and to make new friends of different nationalities, different cultures, it gives them a place where they can fit in and be free of anything that's going on in their life.