Five Mad Minutes with…Ivan Necevski
AFW caught up with Sydney keeper Ivan Necevski
G-Day Ivan. Terry McFlynn told us you like to dish out nicknames, what-s your best one? That-s not true! [Laughs.] He-s stitching me up big time for sure. But… We call Anthony Gollec “Helito”, because he wears little singlets all the time. Does it mean anything? Don-t know, I made it up. It-s just a weird cool name we made up and gave to him - Helito. Apparently you-re also a bit of a magician; what-s your best trick? The best one at the moment is the vanishing coin where I put a coin in someone-s palm and put my hand over it, a little magic wave and it disappears right in front of their eyes. AFW doesn-t carry coins, thankfully. You-re a Pisces and apparently a cook is an ideal job. Are you good in the kitchen? Not at all. My wife does most of the cooking and I do all the cleaning. I-ll leave the cooking side to her. How-s the mo growing going? Terry McFlynn has the most impressive one. Once he gets a bit of length with it he-ll be able to twist the ends. I-m struggling; I-ve been growing it for a couple of weeks now and I still look freshly shaven. I should have started last November to grow it for this November. What-s your favourite TV show at the moment? MTV Cribs. Do you get envious? Very envious. I-m waiting for the Australian version. It would be good to see what Aussie footballers are producing. They could come to my house - I got a nice place in Glenmore Park out in Penrith. What would be the highlight? Probably my lawns. Really? Yeah, I look after my grass pretty well and I had it returfed last year. It-s coming up really well. Interesting, we were expecting a Jacuzzi… No Jacuzzi; it-s not that big, it-s a just a nice little three-bedroom double-garage house - single storey, I-m happy with that. Sounds nice. If Cribs came to AFW-s place they-d pan from left to right and be out in 30 seconds… [Laughs.] They wouldn-t be at my house much longer, to be honest. What three people - dead or alive - would you invite to dinner? I-d have to get David Beckham because I met him before the Galaxy game last year, I-d get him down… If you gave him a couple of drinks, you reckon you-d get some goss? Probably, I reckon he-d loosen up. We had a good chat with him before the Galaxy game and he seemed casual and down to earth… Two more… Jennifer Hawkins… And Peter Brock for the car side, I-d love to have a talk with him about that. What are you going to buy Kossie for Christmas? I don-t know! We had a secret Santa last year and had to pick names out of a hat. I think he-d be pretty hard to choose for actually, I hope I don-t pick him out [laughs]. Who did you get last year? I got David Zrillic so I got him a nice money clip to keep all his pineapples wrapped up nicely. If you do pull Kossie out what would you get him? A stress ball? [Laughs.] Maybe, I don-t know. Something funny like that because he-s got a good sense of humour when it comes to things like that. What would be your last meal? My wife-s roast - they-re top notch. Tip for the EPL and the A-League? EPL? I had Arsenal but they-ve been struggling, Tottenham have come good so if they keep going they could be up there. A-League is Sydney FC! Who are they going to beat? Melbourne Victory - we-ve been the top two teams this season and I don-t think that will change.