The 16 year-old from Sydney, who signed a three-year deal with the German super club in March, is already a regular in the Yellow and Black’s Under-17 Bundesliga side, and he is keen grab the attention of Joeys coach Tony Vidmar amid concerted moves by the Macedonia FA.
Earlier this month Sydney FC’s Australian-born midfielder Nicola Kuleski and Melbourne City's reigning NYL player of the Year Phil Petreski, wore the colours of the Red Lions' Under-21s as it defeated Australia’s Under-23s in Skopje 3-1.
Melbourne Victory defender Daniel Georgievski is also a fully fledged Macedonia international at senior level.
Gorgovski has his heart set on Australia, even though he did attend a Macedonia training camp recently on the invitation of the federation.
The two-footed playmaker, a former Skillaroos and New South Wales Institute of Sport graduate whose parents Tony and Sonya are both of Macedonian heritage, said: “I want to play for for Australia, it’s the country of my birth.
“I am grateful for the opportunity I have been offered by Macedonia but I’ve turned it down because I would far rather represent Australia, if the chance comes my way.
“The Macedonia FA has been talking to my father for a while now, but I personally would love to one day play for the Socceroos. That’s my goal.
“Hopefully, I will get a call up at some stage. I know there are a lot of players from the AIS involved (with the Joeys) right now, and maybe not so much from overseas.
“I have always admired players like Mark Viduka and Tim Cahill and Harry Kewell.”
Ironically, Gorgovski attended the same school, Newington College, as Macedonia recruit Kuleski, and even played in the same team.
The kid from Yagoona in Sydney’s south has been joined by his family in Dortmund, where the player nicknamed the Hurricane is a regular for the Under 17s and has also played for the Under 19s, which recently proved its pedigree by beating mighty Barcelona 4-1.
Now the sole Australian at a club which has nurtured the careers countryman Mitch Langerak, now at Stuttgart, and Mustafa Amini, who took Gorgovski under his wing before departing for Denmark, Gorgovski has been bowled over by the reception he has received in Germany.
“I’ve got to train next to the first team and some of them come over and say hello and talk to you,” he said.
“It’s pretty cool when you get to see Reus take free-kicks and sometimes the first team players come and watch our games also.
"When I arrived Mitch Langerak and Musti were both there. Musti was playing in the same complex as me and we saw a lot of each other and spoke every day.
“I have now realised I can play at this level and if I keep listening to my coaches and doing what I do, hopefully I can climb the ladder here.”
Gorgovski, who plays as a number 6 or 10, believes he can flourish under the auspices of youth coordinator and Dortmund club legend Lars Ricken.
“The tempo and the pace is different to at home, it’s a lot faster and there’s a stronger will to win here," he said.
“I thought I would have a great opportunity to develop at such a big club and work with their coaches.
“Football is a thinking game. You have to be smart to play football. Speed of course helps and I like to think I have that as well as the technical side of things.”
