The man is just a class role model isnt he:
Everton FC hero Tim Cahill dedicated his Europa League winner on Thursday night to the victims of the Samoa tsunami.
The Australia international, who was born in Sydney to a Samoan mother and represented Western Samoa at under-20 level as a 14-year-old, appeared to mime out rowing a boat after scoring the Blues’ second in their 2-1 victory over BATE Borisov in Minsk and insisted it was a gesture of solidarity to the people of the South Pacific islands.
Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga were battered by a tsunami caused by an earthquake on Tuesday, with more than 100 people killed on the islands affected.
Cahill said: "Me and my family are from Samoa, I’ve got a lot of family there that caught in the tsunami, and it’s just sad.
"(The celebration) was a little bit of a tribute, there are a lot of people going through a hard time at the moment, not just in Samoa but in Asia (Indonesia was also hit by an earthquake this week). I go every year to Samoa and it’s hard to take family and other people where I’m from there suffering like that. I just felt in my heart it was the right thing to do."
Everton FC hero Tim Cahill dedicated his Europa League winner on Thursday night to the victims of the Samoa tsunami.
The Australia international, who was born in Sydney to a Samoan mother and represented Western Samoa at under-20 level as a 14-year-old, appeared to mime out rowing a boat after scoring the Blues’ second in their 2-1 victory over BATE Borisov in Minsk and insisted it was a gesture of solidarity to the people of the South Pacific islands.
Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga were battered by a tsunami caused by an earthquake on Tuesday, with more than 100 people killed on the islands affected.
Cahill said: "Me and my family are from Samoa, I’ve got a lot of family there that caught in the tsunami, and it’s just sad.
"(The celebration) was a little bit of a tribute, there are a lot of people going through a hard time at the moment, not just in Samoa but in Asia (Indonesia was also hit by an earthquake this week). I go every year to Samoa and it’s hard to take family and other people where I’m from there suffering like that. I just felt in my heart it was the right thing to do."