Children from the Democratic Republic of the Congo feel safer as Australians Footy fans: Visca and Jenovic Tubashiku meet Australian of the Year Adam Goodes. Ask seven-year-old Visca Tubashiku what she likes about Australia and she might say, "I like maths." It was fitting then, that when Adam Goodes met Visca and her brother, Jenovic, 8, they talked about numbers. "What's your favourite number," asked the Sydney Swans player, starting a game to guess the number he wears on his guernsey. "My favourite number is 10," said Visca, as her brother eventually stumbled towards the correct number on Goodes' back - 37. Model citizens: Visca and Jenovic have embraced life in Australia. The two young football fans, who met Goodes as a pre-Australia Day surprise with The Sun-Herald, will become Australian citizens on Sunday at a ceremony at Penrith's Civic Centre. Their businessman father, Pichen, their mother, Solay, and their two aunts and an uncle, will also affirm loyalty to their new country. When Jenovic was asked what he likes about Australia his response was somewhat stronger than his sister's. "It's nice because no bad people come that have guns and shoot," he says. The Tubashiku family arrived in Adelaide from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in June 2007, via Zimbabwe, where Jenovic and Visca were born. The family moved to Sydney two years later. "I'm so glad that they're going to have the same opportunity that you and I have growing up in Australia to be safe, to know where your next meal's coming from, to be able to get an education ... in a country where they've got every opportunity to do whatever they want to do, be whatever they want to be, practise whatever religion they want to be," Goodes said. He talked about stars with Jenovic, whose hair bears an intricately shaved star shape - courtesy of the African shop where his mother works. "I've got stars, too," said Goodes, showing them his inked left leg. The three stars he bears symbolise elements of the Swans culture. Goodes crouched down between the two children as photographer James Brickwood took his final shots. Jenovic and Visca folded their arms. Goodes beamed. "Little stars," he said affectionately.