 Nine of the players would go on to play for the Australia national football team (Joe Spiteri, Mark Viduka, Frank Jurić, Steve Horvat, Fausto De Amicis, Tom Pondeljak, John Markovski, Andrew Marth and Danny Tiatto), as well as defender Josip Šimunić who would go on to play for the Croatia national football team at two World Cups.For the 1996/97 season the de-ethnicising continued under the helm of the Soccer Australia president David Hill, a key decision was the removal of ethnic symbols from club emblems.So the Melbourne Knights had to change their emblem, removing the Croatian Grb (coat of arms) that had adorned the club's emblem since 1953.