Sutherland's Nathan Elasi, 17, certainly has the bloodlines to make it big in football.

Nathan played for the Young Socceroos earlier this year.

He suffered a red card in the match, and Australia lost 4-0 to Korea Republic to finish second in the group in Ho Chi Minh City, but the team has still qualified for next year's AFC Youth Championships.

The top two teams from each preliminary qualifying group progresses to the tournament.

Elasi, a striker from De La Salle, Caringbah, played for Marconi before going to the Australian Institute of Sport and advancing to representative honours.

He received a ``Big Brother'' scholarship that enabled him to play for five weeks with English club Ipswich  an experience he described as ``tremendous''.

Now Nathan is hoping to get some training with A League club Sydney FC as he tries to advance his career.