IF THERE WAS one thing we knew about 10-year-old Ciarán Duffy before he went to the World Cup, it’s that he is a confident lad.
And taking the Shamrock Rovers schoolboy out of Dublin and onto the biggest stage in world football didn’t faze him in the slightest.
As a mascot for Iker Casillas before tonight’s crunch Spain v Chile World Cup Group B clash, Duffy (that’s him in the bottom right of the screen) picked his moment, stared down the lens and delivered this wink to the watching millions.
Snapshot: 10-year-old Dubliner Ciarán Duffy winks at the world from the Maracanã pitch
IF THERE WAS one thing we knew about 10-year-old Ciarán Duffy before he went to the World Cup, it’s that he is a confident lad.
And taking the Shamrock Rovers schoolboy out of Dublin and onto the biggest stage in world football didn’t faze him in the slightest.
As a mascot for Iker Casillas before tonight’s crunch Spain v Chile World Cup Group B clash, Duffy (that’s him in the bottom right of the screen) picked his moment, stared down the lens and delivered this wink to the watching millions.
You can’t teach that.
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Ciaran Duffy living the dram Mini Messi Shamrock Rovers world cuo 2014