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Congratulations to Tony Popovic, staff and the @Socceroos on an inspirational 2-0 win over Turkey.
Togetherness, belief, fight and class on and off the pitch. Most importantly, a team that respects every opponent while continuing to compete with the best on the world stage.
Dean & Ron Pupangmirri represented the Kantilla family at the Hall of Fame earlier this week in Melbourne.
They took the certificate back to the Tiwi Islands for family & friends to celebrate Davidโs induction.
This is wrong - "Soccer" originates in pre WW1 Britain where Rugby was (still is) nicknamed "Rugger" & what was/is 'Association Football' came to be called "Soccer". Where the English speaking world has many football codes, using Soccer made sense & is no insult.
He's an incredible story Tim, as also another part of his story we couldn't tell well in a short video & was omitted was that his wife was profoundly deaf and could only communicate with him, making it extra hard for her to live in Adelaide and extra responsibility for him.