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I was always a sport kid according to my mother, She often came to my sports days and watched me at school. She said that i was very fast for my age and was backed up the the stickers i got at school which covered a cupboard door. The stickers being 1st 2nd and 3rd stickers for the sports days i was involved in. The school i was at had a junior football(soccer) team and i joined it, I loved football even if i wasn't the best at it and wasn't exactly tall for my age. I played in the B team which was were the bad players went. But still i carried on enjoy every moment of it, even if we did lose most games. I don't even remember my position in those games. I think i was a defender, playing next to my best friend Charlie... I was a big wuss at that age though so always cried when i got hurt. I was 7 years old. When junior school finished i went into secondary education, Years 7-11, where you start at 11 finish at 16... I spent the first year at school not doing anything, just PE and playing football at the park every now and then. This school had something called Inter tutor football. This involved the 12 groups in one year playing football against each other. The games were often bad but one of my friends came up to me saying i played pretty well and offered to take me to a football team he played for. When i did join them i found out loads of my friends played for them and loved it. I was still a defender then Playing from the age of 12 - 14 with them, never scoring just playing around really. I did end up getting dropped because i wasn't good enough. It then took another 2 years for me to join another team. The team i still do play for, I play Right midfield for these and have scored 3 and helped others score over 30 times. I wouldn't say i was good. Just better than average..

I love other sports such as baseball and American football. But my love of the English game of football is very strong and i don't plan on quitting, no matter what happens. I've gained a lot of injuries over he years and have spent a long time out in some cases. for example:

Concussion
Dislocated shoulder
Pulled knee ligaments and twisted knee at the same time. Meaning i had to learn how to walk again. But What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.