Frank Lowy, the 84-year-old chairman of Football Federation Australia, was trying to give the A-League’s trophy to the Melbourne Victory after their 3-0 win in the league’s Grand Final. Instead, the 84-year-old took an enormous fall off the stage:
Australian soccer chairman takes enormous fall off stage during A-League trophy presentation
The A-League Grand Final had a scary moment when Frank Lowy took a huge tumble, nearly bringing the trophy with him. But the 84-year-old billionaire is okay.
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Falls are often pretty scary for older folks, and the crowd, which had reportedly booed Lowy earlier in the proceedings, fell silent as paramedics tended to the 84-year-old. But somehow Lowy is all right -- an FFA spokesman said the only injury suffered is a sore shoulder -- and the trophy ceremony resumed after just a two-minute delay.
Lowy, a self-made billionaire ranked as Australia’s richest person in 2010, has been credited with helping revitalize soccer in Australia -- he took over as FFA chairman in 2003 and the A-League was founded in 2005.
Several Getty Images photographers captured the fall frame-by-frame:
(Photo credit: Robert Prezioso, Getty)
(Photo credit: Robert Prezioso, Getty)
(Photo credit: Robert Prezioso, Getty)
(Photo credit: Robert Prezioso, Getty)
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