Jack Grealish celebrates "strangely", bringing tears to netizens

(NLDO) – Attending the World Cup for the first time and scoring in his debut match, Jack Grealish celebrated his goal in a very strange way that made everyone take the trouble to understand.

The £100m Man City midfielder scored his sixth goal for England, tapping the ball into an empty net after a brilliant assist from Callum Wilson. Jack Grealish's 90th-minute strike was instrumental in the Three Lions' 6-2 win over Iran in their opening Group B match.

Jack Grealish and his strange celebration

After scoring, Jack Grealish ran to the end of the field, his face excited, his arms outstretched with strange, bent and stiff arms and hands that caught the attention of the fans. "What happened to Grealish, or what did he want to say?", fans rushed to post on Twitter after the match ended.

"The Caterpillar" Jack Grealish tells the secret of his celebration

Football website 90min posted a 5-minute clip about what led to that "strange" celebration. The thing is, the England midfielder has a 19-year-old sister named Holly, who has cerebral palsy due to being born prematurely and he loves her very much. A young fan named Finlay, who also has cerebral palsy, is a big fan of Man City and wrote a letter to Grealish, expressing his admiration for him and his feelings for his sister.

90min page "reveals" Jack Grealish's celebration move

Jack Grealish and Finlay exchanged letters, in which the 11-year-old wrote: "I wish there were more people in the world like you, who treated disabled people the same as anyone else. I am really happy to see a famous footballer like you living, sympathizing and sharing with people with cerebral palsy. You are a 'hero' in my eyes, a good big brother to your little sister."

Jack Grealish loves his 19-year-old sister with cerebral palsy very much.

Not only did Jack Grealish write back and send his Man City shirt, he also visited Finlay at the football training ground. Finlay asked if Grealish could celebrate like "a worm" when he scored at the World Cup, because his hands were disabled and he couldn't celebrate normally.

Grealish promises Finlay he will do the 'worm' gesture if he scores at the World Cup

So, in his first World Cup appearance, after coming off the bench and scoring against Iran in the 90th minute, Jack Grealish spread his arms and made the "worm" gesture as he promised Finlay. The nearly 6-minute clip reached 6 million views overnight and everyone who watched it was moved to tears.

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