Mileâ€™s armband, but Roos share leaders

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SHOULDER to shoulder they sat, and the message was unmistakable. Mile Jedinak is the new captain of the Socceroos, and will cherish the honour, but this is a team that will be run as a team, by a team.

At the table sat Ange Postecoglou flanked by the man he has confirmed as skipper, but also by vice-captains Tim Cahill and Mark Bresciano, the senior lieutenants in this new-look, and newly official, leadership group.

Wednesday was another key stage in Postecoglou's attempts to regrow the Socceroos' culture, and to bind the senior players into that. For all that he emphasised Jedinak's outstanding qualities as the team's first among equals, so the coach talked up the experience and team wisdom that Cahill and Bresciano can be expected to supply.

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"I tend to lead by example," Jedinak said of his leadership style, and his will be an understated captaincy where actions set the tone, rather than any great oratory. Which is not to say the Crystal Palace captain is not an articulate and highly impressive talker, ready to engage and debate any number of issues.

But it's hard to imagine an industry springing up around a Jedinak captaincy, nor a cult of personality. "It's not a question of leaning on anyone," he said when asked about making use of his vice-captains. "We're in this together."

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What Postecoglou wants is to avoid the cliques and jealousy, the circus around certain individuals, that have appeared in the past. The experience of the senior trio is huge, and now they have a clearly defined way to relay the lessons of that to what is predominantly a youthful squad.

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In their various ways the three offer a variety of styles, from Cahill's ebullience to Bresciano's slow-spoken determination. All three know what the pressures of a World Cup camp look and feel like; all three have faced huge obstacles at various points in their careers and surmounted them.

It's that determination and colleigality that Postecoglou has sought to reknit among the playing group. If morale was shot to pieces by the defeats to Brazil and France that cost Holger Osieck his job, now there is a belief that whatever the end result, the side will not go down without a fight.

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