snoopystorm wrote:Was think earlier that there are always special moments within the world of football, I don’t mean teams winning cups/leagues etc I mean down right personal that makes you feel proud in that moment, for example Christiano Ronaldo giving his CL medal to the disabled fan as he came down from receiving it kind of special moments.....
As I said I was thinking and mine has got to be from my local U16’s league around 3 years ago, we moved to the area we live now and my boy was asked by lads in school to join the local U16’s team so he could gain friends and fit in, I was asked to join the coaching team. The season progressed well, we’re on the run in sat 8th in the league and in a good run of form, win the next match and we’re up to 5th and can push on for 3rd as long as we got the results.... we were playing the team in 2nd place, they were pushing for top spot. So into the game, 4-2 with 5 mins to go, we came back from 4-0 down, they could see we were tiring but pushing and they were comfortable and knew time was in their side, they had this young disabled lad in their books, we had just scored so they made their substitution, this young lad came on up front, he came over to kick off..... what happened next was really special.. our striker went to tackle him and tripped... so he carries on, our midfielders run straight into each other, he carries on, one of our defenders approach him, starts to back towards goal watching whatbtje striker is doing, with this our defender falls backwards, our other CB just falls about laughing, their striker is through 1 on 1 with our keeper (bearing in mind all this takes 30-40 seconds and this young kid is disabled, think it was cerebral palsy) so our keeper... one of the best in the league on his day... dives completely the wrong way and the young striker scores. Everybody on that pitch (both teams) run across and congratulate him on his goal, we lose the match 5-2.
We go shake hands with the players, ref and opposite coaching staff and they ask if they can chat to our lads in the changing rooms, works out they had this lad on their books all season, never missed training, 1st lad to turn up on match day but the club never had the right opportunity to get him out on the pitch during a game.
Never been prouder of a group of 15 year olds than I was that day, that special moment was better than qualifying for the league cup final the weekend after.
Wolfpac wrote:My favourite footballing moment was watching Real Madrid in the Champions League final in 2000, it was a 16th birthday surprise present for me from my Mam and Dad, my Grandfather Pablo was from Madrid so I’ve always followed them and my favourite player of all time is Raul, to see him score the 3rd goal to beat Valencia was an unbelievable feeling of joy and excitement, was a cracking weekend for my Dad and I
rumpo kid wrote:3-3 Swansea 1980...
John Buchanan tralala lala
Man City 94 was good. That game had everything.
Whistler wrote:I dont know about the greatest moment in football, but perhaps the greatest "TURN" ROBSON KANU Belgium WOW WOW WOW. As a proud Welshman I just wandered around in a trance that night not believing what I had just seen, I think it must go down in Welsh Football History
CaerphillyBluebird15 wrote:Whistler wrote:I dont know about the greatest moment in football, but perhaps the greatest "TURN" ROBSON KANU Belgium WOW WOW WOW. As a proud Welshman I just wandered around in a trance that night not believing what I had just seen, I think it must go down in Welsh Football History
THIS
Followed by that FA cup win against Boro.
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