Youth
Connell grew up playing street soccer in Mayfair and attending Rangers F.C. games at Bloch Park. Playing in black and white striped shirts of the Rangers Club was a must for any kid from the neighborhood and Connell was no different. Connell spent most Sundays from 9am to 5pm watching and playing pick soccer at Bloch Park. When he was nine, he was recruited into a U-11 team which practiced in the park. As luck had it his first game would be against the rivals of Rangers. Highlands Park was a team from the northern suburbs. The game would be played as a first curtain raiser before a Rangers professional game and it would be played on the Rand Stadium. Although they were beat 9-2 that days Mike scored both goals and so began his journey to becoming a professional soccer player.
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Famous quotes containing the word youth:
“In Homer and Chaucer there is more of the innocence and serenity of youth than in the more modern and moral poets. The Iliad is not Sabbath but morning reading, and men cling to this old song, because they still have moments of unbaptized and uncommitted life, which give them an appetite for more.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.”
—Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)
“A glimpse through an interstice caught,
Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a barroom around the stove late of a winter night, and I unremarked seated in a corner,
Of a youth who loves me and whom I love, silently approaching and seating himself near, that he may hold me by the hand,
A long while amid the noises of coming and going, of drinking and
oath and smutty jest,
There we two, content, happy in being together, speaking little,
perhaps not a word.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)