#2 Villarreal fulfil a cancer patient’s dream
13-year-old Gohan had always dreamed of scoring a goal for Villarreal at El Madrigal. In 2014, the club decided that they would grant Gohan’s wish. However, Gohan wasn’t an academy product, but a fan undergoing cancer treatment.
Villarreal decided that they would draft him into the team during a charity match against Celtic, in which all the proceeds would go to a children’s cancer research charity, helping kids like Gohan to continue to beat this horrible disease.
The entire squad treated him as one of their own, handing him the number 12 shirt, letting him warm-up alongside them before the game and letting him get proceedings underway with the kick-off.
But not quite content with it, Gohan unleashed the inner Messi within him, going on a dizzying run before slotting the ball past the goalkeeper.
