page_title: Massimo Luongo
section_title: International career
hierarchical_section_title: Massimo Luongo / International career
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Чили - Австралия
context_page_description: Massimo Corey Luongo is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Championship club Sheffield Wednesday and the Australian national team.
  Born in Sydney, Luongo played youth football for APIA Leichhardt Tigers before moving to England to play for Tottenham Hotspur, where he started his professional career. Following a loan spell at Ipswich Town, he played on loan at Swindon Town, a move which was eventually made permanent. He joined current club Sheffield Wednesday in 2019.
  Luongo has played for the Australia national team since 2014 and has made 34 appearances. He was a member of the squad at the 2014 FIFA World Cup and played a central role in Australia winning the 2015 AFC Asian Cup, where he scored in the final and was named player of the tournament.
context_section_description: Being able to play for both Australia, Indonesia and Italy, he chose to represent his birth country, Australia.
  Luongo represented the Australian under-20 team twice but was not selected for the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup.
  He made his debut for the Socceroos on 6 March 2014 as a second-half substitute for captain Mile Jedinak in the 3–4 loss to Ecuador at The New Den in London. He was selected for the 23-man Australia squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil by manager Ange Postecoglou, but did not feature in any of their three matches as they were eliminated in the group stage.
  Luongo was also selected in the 23-man squad for the Asia Cup to be played on home soil in Australia. Swindon teammate Yaser Kasim was also called up for his home nation Iraq, meaning that the club would have to compete in their regular League One season without the two central midfielders for a month. He went on to score in Australia's 4–1 win over Kuwait in the opening game of the tournament, in addition to providing the assist that led to Tim Cahill scoring Australia's first goal of the match. At the end of the game, he was named as man of the match. Luongo also started in Australia's second group game against Oman, providing the assist for Robbie Kruse to score Australia's second goal in an eventual 4–0 win. He played in the 2015 AFC Asian Cup Final against South Korea, scoring the first goal from outside the box in a 2–1 win.  He was named as Most Valuable Player of the tournament after scoring two goals and assisting four throughout the tournament.
  In May 2018 he was named in Australia's 23-man squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.
caption: Luongo playing for Australia at the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup
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