Cahill dedicates winner

01 October 2009 23:01
// A bit of a hack but it works// The article snippet is wrapped onto a second line, even when #article-sub is emptyif( $("div#article-sub").children().length == 0 ) {$("div#article-sub").remove();} Tim Cahill has dedicated his winning goal against BATE Borisov to the victims of the Samoa tsunami.[LNB] The islands of Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga were hit by the tsunami, brought on by an earthquake, on Tuesday killing more than 100 people.[LNB]The midfielder was born in Sydney but has a Samoan mother and represented Western Samoa at youth level.[LNB]The 29-year-old looked as if he was rowing a boat as he celebrated scoring the winning goal for the Toffees on a difficult night in Belarus.[LNB]"Me and my family are from Samoa, I've got a lot of family there that are caught in the tsunami, and it's just sad," he said.[LNB]"(The celebration) was a little bit if a tribute, there are a lot of people going through a hard time at the moment, not just in Samoa but in Asia.[LNB]"I go every year to Samoa and it's hard to take family and other people where I'm from there suffering like that.[LNB]"I just felt in my heart it was the right thing to do."[LNB]

Source: SKY_Sports