Today Daniel was invited by the Free Kicks Foundation to be a mascot for Peterborough United football team. We met up with Simon who was to be looking after the mascots for the afternoon. He showed Daniel and the rest of us around the inner workings of the football club and Daniel got to meet the players in their dressing room and get his programme signed. Then it was time for Daniel to do his warm-up with Simon and the other mascots on the pitch. Daniel used his frame today because it was pouring with rain and he was worried he would slip, he worked incredibly hard keeping up with all the exercises and even dribbled the ball in between some cones which just looked amazing to us. He couldn't kick a ball before his SDR operation but he seemed in control of the ball and kicked with both left and right feet. Simon was brilliant and we want to thank him for how well he enabled Daniel to join in. After the warm up Daniel led out all the players and officials onto the pitch for the match, he absolutely loved it!
We would like to thank everyone who we met today at the Posh ground they were so friendly, but particularly Simon and of course Steve and Sam from Free Kicks Foundation for giving Daniel (and ourselves) a great afternoon. By the way they won 2-1!!
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It was a pleasure to take Daniel and the rest of you to the game today. We have had many comments from Posh fans on Twitter saying what an inspiration he is. He thoroughly deserved the cheers when he scored his goal and the round of applause when coming off the pitch.
ReplyDeleteWish you all the best for the next 18 months, we will follow his progress here!
Steve and Sam
Glad he enjoyed his day at the Posh, Daniel was an inspiration.
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