As one of Cahill's former Socceroos team-mates, , the 34 year-old possesses a freakish ability to jump high and accurately at the set piece, timing his headers to perfection. As he showed against China, acrobatic leaping is also part of his kit bag.
As plattitudes for Cahill flowed like fans through the turnstiles at Brisbane Stadium, The World Game, perhaps inevitably, wondered what other sports Cahill would have killed it in. This is what we came up with:
Aerial Surfing:Gymnastics:
Break dancing:
AFL:
Boxing:
Basketball: