Steven Hall, courageous hero of the Young Socceroos' landmark Under-20 Asian Cup triumph, has been left feeling as if his emotional story had been lifted straight out of a movie.
The 20-year-old joined a distinguished list of goalkeeping shoot-out heroes like Mark Schwarzer, Andrew Redmayne and Mackenzie Arnold when he made the instinctive one-handed save that won Australia its first major soccer trophy in a decade since Ange Postecoglou's 2015 senior Asian Cup winners.
The dizzying moment in Shenzhen against Saudi Arabia prompted Hall to rush to a pitchside camera and brandish the message on his glove which read 'for you grandad' in honour of his grandfather who'd died just a week earlier back home.