Man's romantic gesture to girlfriend at basketball game leaves crowd erupting in cheers

Carlo from Peru proposes to Daniela from Cuba successful affectional scenes during hoops crippled successful their adopted location of Sheffield

A basketball instrumentality from Peru projected to his woman successful the cleanable 'love match' successful his adopted Yorkshire hometown.

Romantic Carlo Vidal Miranda popped the question to Dianelis Feria-Menes, 25, from Cuba, astatine a 'shoot out' during Sheffield Sharks' 79-61 triumph implicit Leicester Riders. The 27-year-old was truthful tense that helium missed his changeable successful the £1,000 challenge. But it was worthy it arsenic helium won the bosom of his aboriginal bride.

He had spoken with erstwhile Sharks prima Mike Tuck, present the nine selling manager, to put Sunday's proposal. He was "incredibly nervous" arsenic helium got down connected 1 genu successful beforehand of astir 1,600 people, but "ecstatic" erstwhile she said yes. Carlo, a concern manager from Lima, said: "Mike met maine weeks agone and perfectly loved the thought and suggested that we did it during the sprout out. It was a batch harder than I thought truthful I missed the changeable completely.

But it was for a accidental to triumph £1,000, truthful I convinced Dianelis to travel on due to the fact that we could person a bully vacation if we won. When she turned around, I asked her to wed maine and she had nary thought whatsoever. It was precise emotional."

Her mum Caridad and dada Antonio were successful the assemblage aft flying successful from Cuba. Carlo had asked for their daughter's manus successful marriage. "It is successful the Latin American civilization to bash that successful advance," added Carlo, a concern studies postgraduate from Sheffield University.

"She told maine erstwhile that she wanted to person her nails done if I ever asked to wed her. So I told her mum and she made definite that she had her nails each acceptable earlier Sunday." Dianelis turned astir to spot her fiance connected 1 knee. "I wasn't expecting anything. I'm very, precise happy. I'm inactive successful shock," she said. They met astatine a Cuban creation evening successful Sheffield connected the eve of her 23rd birthday.

Carlo told however they 'did not adjacent kiss' but danced each night. They program to unrecorded successful the metropolis aft they get joined connected December 21 this year. "We person ever loved Sheffield," added Carlo. "She's going to postgraduate from Sheffield Hallam University connected Friday, truthful her parents had travel implicit each the mode from Cuba. I wanted to marque definite that they were capable to beryllium there. For me, it was precise peculiar for her to beryllium wholly unaware that it was thing that was going to happen."

Canadian Mike Tuck, 41, who played for the Sharks from 2009-22, winning the BBL play-offs successful 2016, was delighted with Carlo's winning proposal. "I said we would bash a couple's mentation of the sprout retired truthful helium was down connected 1 genu erstwhile helium turned around," helium said. "It went really, truly well." Sheffield Sharks manager Yuri Matischen said the Canon Medical Arena had "erupted" erstwhile Dianelis said yes.