Goalkeeper’s biggest catch

Hours before the crucial football match, that would see Birkirkara win the Premier league, goalkeeper Justin Haber was changing the filters of three of his 80 aquariums to relax before the crunch game. “As a goalkeeper my game is different to other players’… I have to be more focused to try to save. Before a game, and sometimes after, my method of meditation is to stay in front of an aquarium to calm down. “There I can switch off,” the 31-year-old says. His eyes sparkle with enthusiasm as he talks about his passion – and this time it is not football but the quiet, watery world of aquariums. “As a footballer, people know you for what you are and not who you are. People don’t ask me: ‘Justin, how are you?’ They say: ‘What you doing this winter? Are you going to win? Why didn’t you catch that ball?’ “So it’s nice to take a break from that and my aquariums are that break,” the national team player says. His hobby started when he was 10 and had to spend three days in hospital. “They had an aquarium in the Fairyland ward and I spent my three days in hospital in front of this aquarium… there were about five angelfish and two were like a couple, always together. “Now I know they were...