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Aston Villa players only knew about my rubbish dance moves thanks to John McGinn
Joe Gauci has revealed how John McGinn hilariously welcomed him to the Aston Villa first-team group chat.
Signed from Adelaide United back in January, Gauci couldn't turn down the opportunity to develop at a top Premier League club and alongside the best goalkeeper in the world in Emi Martinez, even if it meant he'd have to bide his time for opportunities to play. Having made his Villa debut earlier this season in Villa's 2-1 win over Wycombe Wanderers in the Carabao Cup, Gauci has since recalled on Suited and Booted TV how he received a unique welcome from skipper McGinn.
"When I joined Villa you obviously get added into the player’s chat," Gauci said. "I’m in the group chat and there’s a message that says 'welcome to the stiffest man in Australia' with a video of me dancing!
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"[I thought] I’m never going to live this down. It was John McGinn, the captain [who sent it]. I landed and they played Chelsea in the cup that night. We go to hotels for home games as well under this manager and they were at the hotel preparing for the game and I was staying in the hotel.
"I went straight from the airport, straight to the hotel, straight to the team room where they are having lunch. I just walked in with my casuals and you can just picture there’s all the tables with the coaches, all the tables with the players and then me, this lanky kid walking in. You can just tell they were thinking ‘who the hell is this guy?' They don’t know who I am."
Asked if he had been added in the WhatsApp group at that point, Gauci said: "I’d been added so all they’ve seen is my dance moves. That was it!"
Back in March, Gauci explained that he initially struggled to settle at Villa, but has since managed to find his feet.
“Instead of having one game at the end of the week to aim on like I did at Adelaide, every training session (at Villa) is like a game for me because it’s an opportunity to perform at a high level and to try to get better,” he said. “There’s probably not a bigger jump you can make in the football world than from Australia to the (English) Premier League.
“I never really expected the jump to be that big. I guess I was always aiming for the heights of the top leagues in Europe but to make that jump, the level is definitely a lot different. There’s been an adaptation period, and they’ve made that quite clear to me that it’s going to take me some time to settle in.
“There’s a lot of factors that have gone into that. It definitely hasn’t been easy adapting to the level and finding my routine but as my time has progressed, probably the last six to eight weeks of the season, I felt much more settled and it felt like I was able to really be myself and express myself on the field.
“With the adjustments that they’ve made to me as a goalkeeper, I was starting to feel that improvement and it’s all started to click.”
