Jason Cummings left Scotland as the Joker but knows he is having the last laugh after he netted a place in Australia’s World Cup squad.
Jason Cummings : World cup | nickname | nationality
Cummings is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for A-League Men club Central Coast Mariners.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Jason Steven Cummings | ||
| Date of birth | 1 August 1995 | ||
| Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
Born in Scotland, he represents the Australia national team, after previously representing Scotland at youth and senior international level.
Cummings started his professional career with Hibernian, making 16 appearances and scoring twice in the 2013–14 season.
He was their top goalscorer over each of the next three seasons, scoring more than 20 goals each season, making him the first player to achieve this feat for over 50 years.
Jason Cummings World Cup
Jason Cummings left Scotland as the Joker but knows he is having the last laugh after he netted a place in Australia’s World Cup squad.
The on-form striker admitted his inclusion by boss Graham Arnold is “a dream come true” and that the call-up “is the proudest moment of his career”.
The 27-year-old believes it justifies his decision to quit his homeland for a fresh start Down Under, the birthplace of his mum Tracey.
Cummings – who won two Scotland caps in friendlies against Holland and Hungary in the 2017-18 season – hasn’t looked back as he has relaunched his career with Central Coast Mariners.
The A-League star and Qatar -bound Socceroo is now a million miles away from the person and player who left Scotland at the end of his time at Dundee – which came to an abrupt end after his infamous stint as the Joker at the Open Goal live show in 2021.
A delighted Cummings told Record Sport : “It is amazing, a dream come true. I can hardly put into words what it means to me and to describe to you how I am feeling.
“I would say it is the proudest moment of my whole career to be called up for Australia for the World Cup. A lot of people in Scotland had written me off.
“There was the claims I had a bad attitude and I was this and that. I was just the class clown and the joker. That was never the case.
Jason Cummings nickname
Cummings’ nickname – ‘Cumdog’ – actually started trending on the platform after the lineup for the first game against the All Whites was released.
The attacker’s absence from the matchday squad caused a stir amongst A-League and Socceroos fans, who wanted to know where their favourite cult hero was.
But there is much more to Jason Cummings than only a catchy nickname, Scottish accent, and a joker’s character.
The ex-Rangers player made his debut for the Australian national team on Sunday at Eden Park, almost five years after his first call-up for Scotland, his home country and the country in which his father was born (his mother is Australian).
Cummings’ first game for the Socceroos went a lot better than his inaugural appearance for Scotland though.
Similar to that game against the Netherlands in 2017, the Edinburgh-born striker came on in the second half, but this time his team won and he even scored the sealer.
Nationality
Born in Scotland, he represents the Australia national team, after previously representing Scotland at youth and senior international level.
- Nationality : Scottish
The 27-year-old attacker had flown into Melbourne just that morning after playing for the Socceroos in their final match before the World Cup, as a second-half substitute who won and scored a penalty inside 17 minutes to make it 2-0 against New Zealand in Auckland.
He’d previously been an unused member of coach Graham Arnold’s team that defeated the Kiwis 1-0 in Brisbane 48 hours earlier, and, prior to that, had served as one of the faces of the squad announcement alongside fellow Mariners (soon to be Newcastle United) attacker Garang Kuol.
Cummings has six weeks to show that he deserves a place in Arnold’s 26-man squad for the World Cup in Qatar.
Short of an injury, the position of centre forwards Mitch Duke, Adam Taggart, and Jamie Maclaren within the squad look relatively secure; hence Cummings must convince Arnold that the extra slots available for the World Cup afford the Socceroos coach the licence to select a fourth striker.