My
Sir Shane Hammer Heal Story!
21st
of May 1997, the best day of my life, the day I touched my hero..
There
is not many people who can say that they have touched or met their hero,
but I can! (and I do a lot!!!) We won a double pass to see Smiths Boomers
vs. Croatia. Since it was my birthday the next day (and I was the only
one that would appreciate it!! =) , my mum took me. We got to Sydney early,
so we went walking around Darling Harbour.
We
were in some shop and I looked up and heres these 3 REALLY tall people
walking towards me, and I'm like 'OMIGOD!!'. I looked and the only one
I could see, or looked/stared at anyway, was Matthew Neilson. (When I think
about it I think the other 2 were Chris Anstey and Aaron Trahair, but I
didn't really look at them). Yeah, and so I was looking, or maybe staring,
I'm not sure, and Matthew Neilsen smiles and goes hi! So ofcourse I got
excited and ran screaming to my mum yelling out Matthew Neilson smiled
at me!! I really hope that he was gone by then!!! How embarressing!
So
that was heaps cool, and then it was nearly time for the U 23 game, so
we went back and watched it. I think we lost to Arizona, but I was too
busy watching Shane Heal eating his McDonalds.
Then
the big game finally came! Australia was playing Croatia, and when I looked
around all I could see was Croatian flags and people singing these weird
songs and talking this weird language, and I was thinking, 'this is Australia
isn't it?'.
But
luckily there were some Aussie supporters around; especially this true
blue aussie behind me!!
So
the game started. Croatia was winning to start with and so all the Croatian
people were screaming and singing these weird songs - god! Its not soccer!!.
But then all us Aussie supporters,-- there were like 10 of us! -- started
cheering louder and Australia got infront.
John
Dorge and one of the Croatians started fighting so all these people started
running out from the crowd wanting to fight -- it was pretty strange!
Anyway
the game finished and the Boomers won! and they were signing autographs
out in the foyer! So I ran over there and just squeezed onto one side of
the bench.
I
was in such a rush I didn't realise that I only had this little tiny pencil
and a scrappy bit of paper! So I got Andrew Gaze and Tonny Jensen to sign
that then a security guard gave me a pen that my Dad sent over to me. (from
the other side of the room) And I got John Dorge and David Stiff to sign
my Boomers/Brick holder-upper-in-the-air-card with the pen.
THEN!!!
Everyone started screaming out for Shane!
He
came over and he didn't seem tall or anything, - just sweaty! Everyone
was waving their cards at him and he goes, - "Just relax, I'll sign them
all". And guess whos thing he took first! Yup! MINE! I was kinda
like -- "OHMIGOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ITS SHANE HEAL,-- RIGHT INFRONT
OF ME!!! OMIGOD!!"
Yeah,
I was really relaxed like you could expect!! =) Anyway, he signed my card
and then kept the pen. I normally wouldn't have cared, but since
it was my dads good one I sorta had to get it back, so I asked him for
it ,-- (I spoke to him!!!!!! AAARRGGGHHH!!) and he goes, "Oh, here you
go!" and when I took it I touched his hand!!!!!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT! That
hand shoots all those threes and dribbles all those balls and blocks all
those shots and throws all those passes and intercepts all those balls,
and I touched it!!!! It was pretty hairy, but thats okay!
So
that was the best day of my life and the autographed card is NOT allowed
to be touched by any one , anywhere, as it is sacred and SOOO special!
Louise. =)
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