A great jump on a corner and a marvelous header. This is by no means a surprise coming from Plymouth striker Rory Fallon. But until few days ago, those kinds of attempts didn’t bring a lot of attention. His club are struggling in Coca Cola Championship, while Fellon himself is far from the desired form.
Even though he scored in Plymouth’s first win of the Championship campaign, against Peterborough United, his season record now stands at two league goals. However, he overcame the difficult situation and came under the spotlight. Fallon scored the winner in the World Cup play-off second leg New Zealand – Bahrein and thus helped Kiwis make it to their second ever World Cup.
For the second time in history, Kiwis will play at the World Cup and Rory is now talk of the town. This was a great goal and a great achievement seeing he only made his national team debut two months ago. After he was cleared by FIFA to play for New Zealand, having had previously played for England under-21 side, Fellon was called for the decisive matches against Bahrein. Having played only one friendly match (in which he scored against Jordan) prior to the historic double-header against Bahrein, Fellon ‘played with fire’ and emerged victorious.
Just like legendary Wynton Rufer had scored the winning goal that sent Kiwis to the World Cup 1982 in Spain, thus Fellon stepped up the plate. He dealt with the pressure, rise high after the corner and hammered a goal that is still being aired on TV networks across the world. Looking up to the big Rufer, the best Australia and Oceania player ever, and following the footsteps of his father Kevin, who was New Zealand assistant manager at that historic World Cup 1982.
Kiwis are now dreaming to complete the story and be placed into the same group with Australia and England. Even though that is unlikely to happen, the fact is Rory Fellon’s reputation will soar, just like his adrenalin and confidence, therefore maybe even Plymouth Argyle will see some benefit from this New Zealand’s historic qualification for the World Cup.
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