When Dario Vidosic walks out at Wembley Stadium for the Women's FA Cup final at the head of his Brighton & Hove Albion team it will be a proud but bittersweet moment for the 39-year-old Australian.
Instead of looking to the bench he will be looking to the heavens as he thinks of his father and mentor Rado, who passed away in January aged 64.
Rado had been working alongside Dario on England's south coast as the club's head of women and girls coaching, and would have been a sounding board as Dario plotted a path to victory against Mary Fowler's Manchester City, the newly-crowned Women's Super League champions.
"There's lots of moments where it just hits you," Dario told AAP. "He was someone that I spoke to a lot when we were here working together and living together and enjoying that, but also throughout.
