The star guard has just returned to home soil after a fortnight in France with the Emus, where the national under-19 side made some major inroads ahead of next month’s World Championships.

“We played two games in Paris and then we went north to play in a round-robin tournament against Lithuania, Germany, Israel, France and the USA,” Seebohm said.

“We ended up beating France and Lithuania to finish second, which was good, because they’re supposed to be the top two teams in Europe.”

The Emus’ rigorous 14-day tour featured intensive training and gameplay, designed to strengthen the squad’s upcoming bid for the world title.

“We trained for about an hour to an hour and a half every day and then in the afternoon or at night we’d have a game,” Seebohm said.

“It exposed me to what it’s going to be like when we go to the World Champs with the tournament structure and that sort of thing, and it definitely helped our team.

“We’re really starting to gel together now, our defence has definitely come a long way and that’s probably our main strength at the moment.

“The first game we played was against a local A-grade team and we were pretty good, but by the end of the tour when we played our last game against France and we beat probably the number one team in the world, we had come a long way from start to finish.”

Seebohm is now hard at work back at the Australian Institute of Sport ahead of the Emus’ World Championship campaign.

“We’re off again in 12 days for a small tournament in Spain and then it’s off to Serbia for the World Championships,’ he said.

“As long as we keep doing the things we do well, I think we’re a good chance.”

The Emus will face Canada, Nigeria and Turkey in the round-robin phase of the event, but it’s the giant-killers Seebohm is already out to defeat.

“France, Lithuania and the US will definitely be the teams to beat,” he said.

The 19-year-old recruit will join the South Dragons on return from the World Championships in late July.