Tom Brady met the Birmingham crew within the locker room earlier than dramatic win over Leeds – and jokingly celebrates the objective with ‘TOUCHDOWN’ publish on Instagram

Tom Brady met with the Birmingham Metropolis soccer crew within the locker room for the primary time earlier than recording a 1-0 win over Leeds United with a ninetieth minute penalty on Saturday.

Brady, who introduced he had turn into a minority investor within the second-tier English crew final week on his forty sixth birthday, flew to England to look at his crew play its first residence recreation of the brand new season this weekend.

And he gave the impression to be an excellent luck omen, with Lukas Jutkiewicz scoring a penalty within the final minute of the sport to seal a win in entrance of Brady at St Andrew’s stadium.

Brady spoke after the sport of his pleasure at being in England but it surely was the Birmingham coach John Eustace who revealed simply how far the seven-time Super Bowl winner’s affect is already stretching.

‘The homeowners got here into the dressing room simply as I used to be popping out and congratulated the lads,’ Blues boss Eustace mentioned. ‘It is nice to see Tom Brady in there as effectively. Tom spoke to the group earlier than our assembly right now, so that’s nice to have one of the well-known sporting individuals on this planet come down and chat to the group.

Tom Brady met the Birmingham soccer crew within the locker room on his first go to as an proprietor

Brady additionally greeted followers on the stadium after lately changing into a minority proprietor of the crew

Lukas Jutkiewicz scored a final minute penalty win it for Birmingham towards Leeds 

‘They had been all very excited to take heed to him and he gave us some actual good phrases of recommendation.

‘I feel you possibly can see right now his presence on the membership (is a profit), the imaginative and prescient that he’s bought for the soccer membership is wonderful.

‘He needs this soccer membership to be a world model, he needs this Birmingham Metropolis household now all around the world, which is what all of us need.’

Brady himself spoke to the English soccer media after the sport about how he sees the way forward for the Birmingham crew. 

‘It was an important day,’ mentioned Brady, to ITV Soccer. ‘Clearly profitable the sport however seeing the expertise of the followers and to prove for this residence recreation and see all of the renovations that Tom [Wagner – Birmingham chairman] and his crew have put collectively has put collectively and executed, it has been very thrilling.

‘Issues have occurred type of quick and livid but it surely’s been an important expertise right now. And hopefully it is the beginning of a really long-term significant impression to this neighborhood and sports activities followers around the globe.’

He continued: ‘For me I am a fan of sports activities, I have been taking part in sports activities since I used to be a child and I have been an enormous fan of your model of soccer for a protracted time frame too. 

‘It is a international sport, I’ve loved following it over a protracted time frame. Had household concerned in it over a protracted time frame so when Tom [Wagner] offered me with the chance it was a no brainer for me.’

Brady jokingly celebrated the win by posting ‘landing’ on his Instagram account 

Brady mentioned after the sport that he had loved ‘an important day’ watching Birmingham win  

Wagner additionally went on to say that Brady’s involvement within the crew is way extra significant than only a publicity stunt so as to add a high-profile celeb to possession.

‘Tom is actively engaged within the operations on the sporting facet of the crew, he is gonna play a significant function. And the opposite followers of championship groups most likely want that it was a publicity stunt,’ mentioned Wagner.

‘Sadly for them it is far more than that. I feel others will adopt a lot more of what Tom [Brady] has done and confirmed to achieve success in American soccer and I feel this can be a nice platform for Tom getting his message out.’

Brady celebrated by posting ‘landing’ with an image of Jutkiewicz celebrating the profitable objective along with his arms within the air as if to sign a landing on the grid iron.

Earlier than the sport, Brady visited followers in a neighborhood pub earlier than kickoff to greet a few of the followers.

‘I have never been to a pub in a really, very very long time,’ Brady joked to the BBC. ‘If I spent a whole lot of nights within the pub I would not have been an important participant! However to have that have was very memorable.’

He introduced his shock involvement final week and admitted he has so much to be taught concerning the ‘different soccer’ however is clearly taking his new commitments critically,