THE 1-1 DRAW WITH Germany in Ibaraki back in 2002 is up there as one of Ireland’s greatest World Cup results.
Miroslav Klose, now the all-time record goalscorer at the World Cup, opened the scoring on 19 minutes before Robbie Keane dramatically rescued a point for the Boys in Green by firing past Oliver Kahn two minutes into injury time.
The two opposing players wearing number eight that day were Matt Holland and Dietmar Hamann. The pair, now retired and working as pundits, swap shirts at the final whistle 12 years ago and Hamann tweeted a pic of himself wearing the shirt to his old friend today.
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Holland responded:
Ahh football friends
He obviously didn’t get the jersey from trials at West Ham that never happened.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_2elQKdA_I&sns=em
Haha, good one SBD. Not too many people got that
Definitely Holland’s beauty won Hamann over
Loved Hamman as a player. Calming influence in everything he did.
Hardly a soft spot, both co presented on Talksprt morning show with Colin Murray during the WC, Matty Holland asked Didi if he remembers who he swapped his shirt with, Didi had no idea, story goes Hamann gives ever jersey he has swapped to his mother and she puts them in black bags and in a room in her house in Germany!! the laugh was Holland treasured his swap, Hamann didn’t even know he had Matt’s jersey!! Hence the Twitt picto Colin Murray & Holland.
Bromance.
I thought that he was the ole german fella in killanskully for a second there……http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1517815/
Such flirting, you show me yours and ill show you mine..
Pray to god its been washed
It is the best model, Ireland Umbro t-shirt! Korea Japan 2002 !!!!
Surprised he didn’t gamble it away by now.
Nice shirt!!
Bought one on dingleberrycity.com