Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Tim Cahill - Bloody Legend
If you have been reading my recent posts you will know that I am the coach of one of the Ermington United under 6 teams. In the zone we play in (Granville) all of the Rooball teams have been assigned team names. It was decided that these teams, rather than being "tigers" or "eagles" or "sea slugs", would be named after current Socceroos. We got named after mid-fielder Tim Cahill.
Aside from being a legend on the field, Tim also appears to be a legend off of it as well. Let me fill you in.
When I first found out from our team manager that we were to be team Cahill, I said to her "Who is Cahill?" She got her 5 year old, who is on my team, to answer that question. I may not know everything, particularly about sports, but if I don't know something I know how to find out about it. After some googling and wikipedia-ing I am now knowledgeable about Tim Cahill. I know for example that he plays for Everton (when not playing for Australia).
Armed with this knowledge I send an email to Everton FC and got in contact with their player liaison. He forwards a request from me to Tim for an autographed photo or letter or email or something to show the kids that there is a hero out there who knows who they are. This simple request got me a wonderful signed and dedicated photo of Tim as well as individual signed photos for all of the kids! How about that!
Tim Cahill. You are a bloody legend.
I can hardly wait to give these to the kids on Wednesday. They are going to flip. On Saturday at the game I'm going to get a team photo, print it out and then get the kids to autograph it and send it to Tim (with some "thank you" letters from the troops). I'll treat them like the little superstars they are!
This is what sport is all about.
Aside from being a legend on the field, Tim also appears to be a legend off of it as well. Let me fill you in.
When I first found out from our team manager that we were to be team Cahill, I said to her "Who is Cahill?" She got her 5 year old, who is on my team, to answer that question. I may not know everything, particularly about sports, but if I don't know something I know how to find out about it. After some googling and wikipedia-ing I am now knowledgeable about Tim Cahill. I know for example that he plays for Everton (when not playing for Australia).
Armed with this knowledge I send an email to Everton FC and got in contact with their player liaison. He forwards a request from me to Tim for an autographed photo or letter or email or something to show the kids that there is a hero out there who knows who they are. This simple request got me a wonderful signed and dedicated photo of Tim as well as individual signed photos for all of the kids! How about that!
Tim Cahill. You are a bloody legend.
I can hardly wait to give these to the kids on Wednesday. They are going to flip. On Saturday at the game I'm going to get a team photo, print it out and then get the kids to autograph it and send it to Tim (with some "thank you" letters from the troops). I'll treat them like the little superstars they are!
This is what sport is all about.
# posted by David and Melissa @ 15:32 
