This is the same underlying idea that led, in the 1920s, to the advent of the Community Chest movement which itself evolved into regional United Appeal and then United Way fundraising drives, often fueled by employer-enabled paycheck deductions.

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He is now tetraplegic, paralysed below the chest, with limited movement in his arms.

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Kumi Yokoyama of Japan is the only woman shortlisted, with the nominees completed by Neymar (Santos), Hamit Altintop (Turkey) and Linus Hallenius of Sweden's Hammarby, who in one fluid movement took the ball on his chest, flicked it over his head with his right foot and volleyed in with his left from the edge of the box.

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Heart pounding in my chest, I stood my ground, eyes unblinkingly focused on every movement of the big elephant.

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