A SIX-year-old born with two holes in his heart had the opportunity to meet his heroes at Chelsea’s training ground.
Joshua Newman, of Chelmsford, met his idols thanks to the Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals Charity.
Joshua, has been under the care of Royal Brompton his entire life after being born at 28 weeks and diagnosed with heart problems in the womb.
He had two holes in his heart and a narrowing of the aorta, the main artery in the body.
Eventually Joshua could go home 22 weeks after he was born.
Among the famous faces at the open training session were David Luiz, Ruben Loftus-Cheek and new signing, Gonzalo Higuain.
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