Robbie Keane has made 136 appearances in the green jersey so it came as a bit of a surprise to see the Ivory Coast colours on his boots during last night's MLS Championship for the LA Galaxy.

Keane posted a picture of new matching boots for himself and son Robert on his Facebook page on Saturday, saying: "Mine and Robert's boots are ready for Sunday. He will be leading the team out with me for the final - very excited!"

There is no prouder Irishman than the Tallaght man but there was just one problem - the tri-colour was orange, white and green of the Ivory Coast rather than the green, white and orange of Ireland!

The boots did the job however, as Keane bagged an extra-time winner against the New England Revolution.

Keane spurned one chance in extra time before calmly slotting home to seal a 2-1 win against New England Revolution.

The miss certainly didn't play on Keane's mind however.

"I have been playing for 15 years, you miss chances and you score chances. I missed one chance so it wasn't that bad. Jesus, you are trying to kill me here. We just won the Championship and I scored the winning goal and you are on about the miss.

"I don't worry about missing chances because I always tell young strikers 'as long as you are getting into the right areas and you keep getting in there and you are determined to keep getting in there, you will score goals'."

And Keane used that philosophy to keep his head to go on and net the winner.

"In the second half of extra time Omar came up to me and said something to me and I said 'don't worry I will score'.

"That wasn't me being big headed, that was just me knowing I would get one chance and I would put it away. Thankfully for me it hit the back of the net and we won the Championship."

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