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lucky to be alive. I had a heart attack and I was dead and then I flatlined four
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times when I was in a coma. I went overseas with the New Zealand AllHWH whites to Mexico and starred for the
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AllHWH whites, played as the number one goalkeeper. We have our team talk and Ken Dougdell sort of said, you know,
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would anyone like to say anything? And Michael obviously what you've been through with breaking your neck and you
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know how how are your how are you how's your head? You're going to be busy mate.
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We're playing the best team in the world. We're ranked 101st to their first. So, how do you feel? And I said,
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"Are you guys [ __ ] serious?" I said, "Uh, 6 months ago, I caught a soccer
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ball for the first time in 2 years after being told I'd never walk, never play
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football again. And now I'm about to line up with the national anthem of New
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Zealand with my mates and I'm about to play against Rualdinho on the Brazilian
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national team in Mexico in front of 70,000 people. If we score a goal, we'll
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win." >> Yeah. >> I said, "Cuz they're not going to score." You know, they ended up beating
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us 2-0, but it was it was no discredit. That's it's not a bad disgraceful, is
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it? Now it isn't. It isn't.