When the 2022 World Cup final is decided, it will be Australian Steve Peios screaming out, "Goal!".
With an expected audience of around three billion people, the match will feel a long way away from the quiet streets of Queanbeyan in Canberra where Peios grew up.
As a young boy, Peios actually dreamed of getting into the ring - not to fight, but with a microphone firmly in hand.
"I always wanted to be a ring announcer first and foremost," Peios told The Sporting News.
"I used to get up in the middle of the night, ring my cousin and watch WCW Monday Nitro. That's when I first saw Michael Buffer doing a lot of announcing and for some strange reason it was something I always wanted to do."
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Peios' dream didn't come true overnight though, with the Aussie grinding away on community radio in Canberra for about a decade until he got his first break in his mid-20s.
A local boxing match in Australia's capital was where he made his debut in the ring and began honing his craft.
"I was just getting into the groove of it all, learning the art form, practicing, understanding how to source all the information, and even just learning all the voice stuff," he said.
"How you sort of inflect, deflect, when to ride the crowd with you, when to bring them down, all that sort of stuff. Because when you sort of started in the early days, and you don't quite know what you're doing, you can sometimes let a roaring crowd go."
After plenty of practice on the local stage, Peios moved onto the global arena at the Commonwealth Games in 2018 where he was selected to call the boxing program.
His first taste of a big time event then also led him down an unexpected path to football.
"It was a case of, like a lot of great stories in life, right place at the right time," Peios said.
"My venue producer, who was doing the broadcast, he was a guy that had just started to work for FIFA. We got talking and he asked if I was interested in football as well.
"I've been a big football fan since I was a young boy so I just chewed his ear off after that and then he eventually offered me a gig working at the FIFA Club World Cup back in 2018.
"It just snowballed from there. It was a great opportunity. It turned into the AFC Asian Cup in 2019 and then the Women's World Cup in France."
From confirming title-winning goals to interviewing Real Madrid stars, Peios' transition to the round ball required a slightly different approach to what he was used to.
"It's really different because when you have a boxing fight, and especially a fight card, you really have to build up and just create the energy in the room, but at a much slower pace, because a boxing card will go over four to five hours," he said.
"When it comes to FIFA, it's a little more pressured...there's different levels of pressure and different levels of timing, I feel like as well and you've just got to be able to peak and get it right.
"When you get to a World Cup, you've got to be very well prepared very early because once you get to a game a day, if you fall behind, you can be in a real lot of trouble.
"They're a lot of fun as well though, when you announce a big goal or something like that, and you get to open up the lungs."
But calling goals for Peios has gotten a lot more complicated since the introduction of VAR which can routinely overturn them.
"Once the referee had given a goal you used to just go bananas and everyone would just be losing it," he said.
"But now you've got to be a little bit more circumspect to look for offside flags and look for referees that are touching their ears and listening for the VAR, that sort of thing. So it's a challenging environment.
"We've had to do strike a nice balance between being able to give the audience a huge lift on the goal for their team and then keeping that energy in at the same time when needed."
So how does the man set to call a World Cup final look after his all-important voice?
"I don't drink anymore. No smoking cigars or cigarettes, nothing like that to ensure the voice stays nice and clean," Peios said.
"The best way I found to look after voice is to just have an overall healthy lifestyle. I'm certainly not a professional athlete by any stretch but it's all about living the life of a professional.
"I also like to have a bit of fruit on the day, nothing too cold, but a bit of fruit always helps soften up the larynx. Some cough lollies or Strepsils just to keep things lubricated throughout the week as well.
"It's a bit like if you're a long-distance runner, once you get the first few kilometres under the belt, the voice really sings along and then you can get through it quite comfortably."
Peios' time in Qatar will certainly be more of a marathon than a sprint with the Aussie set to cover at least one Socceroos match along with the biggest knockout round matches.
While Australia will probably not make it to the title decider, Peios will be there proudly.
"I will be assigned to the World Cup final at the Lusail Stadium so that's a massive honour for me to be able to do that, especially as an Australian to be on the ground, it's huge," he said.
"You sort of pinch yourself a little bit when you think about all the eyes that will be on it.
"They're estimating upwards of three to three-and-a-half billion people to have an eye on the World Cup final and they'll hear my voice..."
