Regarded as one of Australia’s most mercurial left-sided creators, the former Western Sydney Wanderers and Macarthur junior - who turns 18 in May - came off the bench in the 72nd overnight to fire the opener for the Turks, the ancestral home of his father Wayne.
 
Sydney-born Gulasi was approached by the Turkish Football Federation after making an impression in the junior ranks for 2.Bundesliga Schalke over the past year, with talk around the club that he's expected to make a senior breakthrough next season.
 
There has been no contact between the youngster and Football Australia since he was left out of the last Joeys camp in Shepparton, Victoria, hence his defection to the land of his father’s forebears.
 
Under FIFA rules, Gulasi is still permitted to switch back to Australia but his current allegiance appears to lie with Turkey, whose U-19s face Germany on Saturday in their second qualifier, offering Gulasi - first scouted by Schalke at just 13 - another chance to impress against top calibre opposition.
 
His goal came in the 82nd minute, setting his adopted nation on course for a crucial victory.
 
In the past 12 months, Gulasi has become an established member of the Miners’ U-19s side, taking his place on a Schalke production line famed for churning out the likes of Manuel Neuer, Ilkay Gundogan, Julian Draxler, Mesut Ozil and Leroy Sane.
 
Nominally deployed as a number ten, Gulasi can also operate on the winger with a proclivity for the spectacular in terms of strikes on goal.