Unable to get our fix of grassroots football for so much of the past year, there have no doubt been moments for us all when we’ve let our inner fantasies run wild.
Whether it be volleying a scrunched up piece of work into the bin with the panache of Tony Yeboah or dribbling a stray stone down the street with the poise of Zinedine Zidane – as football fans, the dream never dies.
For Ian McKenzie, co-founder of FC Not Alone, one of the world’s first mental health football clubs, his lockdown motivation came courtesy of the Amazon Prime documentary ‘Sonsational: The Making of Son Heung-min’.
Tottenham fan McKenzie may now be 28, but the documentary allowed him to embrace that most seductive of thoughts: “I got it in my head that it wasn’t too late to be a professional!”
With that, he bought himself some cones and a ball and headed to his local park.
“I can’t even do keepy-uppies, so I’m already at a big disadvantage,” he says. “But I really understood from that documentary why my career has not been as good as possible: I never got coached the basics. Practising keepy-uppies in the park when you can’t really do them is quite an intimidating atmosphere!”
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