Tim Cahill

Tim Cahill is one of Australia’s favourite Socceroos.

Born in Sydney, he learned his football under the watchful eye of his dad playing with Balmain, the Marrickville Red Devils and Sydney United before taking the big step of pursuing his dream of being a professional footballer in England.

After six years with Millwall – where he was instrumental to helping them to their first FA Cup final in his final season – Tim was lured to Everton Football Club in 2004 by the then new manager, David Moyes.

Cahill is as important to Everton as he is to Australia, and signed a new four year deal with the Merseyside club just prior to going to South Africa for the 2010 World Cup.

On the international stage, Cahill will always be remembered for scoring Australia’s first two goals at a FIFA World Cup when he came on as a substitute with Australia lagging Japan 1-0 and with less than ten minutes to full-time.

There followed eight of the most glorious minutes in Australian football history, when Cahill scored twice followed by John Aloisi with a third to give Australia a famous come-from-behind victory. 

Cahill was a pivotal part of the qualifying matches for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. In South Africa, he was red carded in the first half (by a referee who most Australians believe got it very wrong) of the game against Germany which Australia lost 4-0. After serving a one match suspension, he bounced back in the final group game to score the first goal in the Socceroos’ 2-1 victory against Serbia.

Tim has said his two great loves (outside his extended family) are Australia and Everton – and bringing Everton to Australia has long been a dream.

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