Childhood Of Celebrities : Paolo Maldini

Paolo Maldini was born in Milan,Italy(26th of June 1968).He is a son of Maria Luisa and Cesare Maldini( ex Milan player with 4 Scudetti-a cup of italian championship,1 cup of Champion League,Ex -trainer of under 21 and national team)

When Paolo was young,he was a fan of Juventus.His hero is Roberto Bettega.However he chose to start his soccer carrier with his father’s team-AC.Milan.

At the beginning he played in the left wing position .After discovering himself for a while,he decided to switch to play as defender,the same position as his father

His first debut in series A was in the 20th of January 1985 when Milan played against Udine. Milan had a number of injuries for their visit to Udinese and the coach, Nils Lidholm, decided to take him and a few others from the youth team along on the bench. At the beginning of the second harf the “boss” gave him the shout; he was on for the injured Battistini. So, at 16, and without even time to be excited. From that moment he was always part of the team. He had two first class tutors ;Franco Baresi and Mauro Tassotti. Although it was not a great season, he had a “real” wage for the first time and he bought his first car, a Golf.

From his great success in the league , he had a chance to play for the under21 in November 1986. Thursday 31st March 1988, 8.08 p.m. was his first debut in national team, coached by Azeglio Vicini, at the Hajduk Stadion in Split for a friendly against Yugoslavia, then united. He was on the bench - he wasn’t yet 20 - and at the beginning of the second half Vicini told him to warm up. After a few minutes he was on in place of Francini. The game finished 1-1, but the result was of secondary importance; what counted was that he was part of the squad only a few months ahead of the European Championships in Germany.

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Childhood Of Celebrities : Michael Owen

Michael James Owen (born December 14, 1979, in Chester, Cheshire) is an English football player currently with Newcastle United. He has also played for Liverpool (1996–2004) and Real Madrid (2004-05). He plays as a striker and has enjoyed a hugely successful and high-profile career at both club and international level and was the European Footballer of the Year in 2001. Owen is currently England’s 4th highest scorer of all time, with 37 goals in 82 games for his country, with him being England’s leading competitive goalscorer on 23 goals.

When Michael was only seven his father, Terry, persuaded the manager of Mold Alexandra to let Michael into his team of ten-year-olds. Michael was quite a bit younger than most, and very much smaller, but he was soon showing off his “flair” and started in most games becoming known as the club’s ’secret weapon’. He also played for his primary school team in Hawarden, Wales, breaking all local scoring records in his first season. He then attended Hawarden High School, where he also played for the school team.

His records and ability attracted much attention from top English teams, but as a Junior School boy, the school had the final say and it was a policy not to allow pupils to sign contracts at such a young age.

At age 11, when Owen had joined Hawarden High, he became available to sign “School Boy” forms with a club. He held talks with Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal, before he eventually signed for Liverpool. The club who persuaded him to attend the FA’s School of Excellence at Lilleshall in Shropshire from age 14. Throughout this time, he studied at Idsall School, Shifnal, Shropshire, and achieved ten GCSEs.

Liverpool signed Owen after he graduated from Lilleshall at 16, and joined the club on the Youth Training Scheme. With Owen’s help, Liverpool’s youth team won the FA Youth Cup in 1996.After four months, he signed professional forms for the senior team just after his seventeenth birthday in December 1996.

He made his debut for Liverpool against Wimbledon in May 1997, coming on as a substitute and scoring a goal. With an injury to Robbie Fowler, he was thrust immediately into action as a first team regular alongside the likes of newcomer Paul Ince and playmaker Steve McManaman in the following 1997-98 season. Owen ended that season as a joint top scorer in the Premier League with Chris Sutton and Dion Dublin, scoring eighteen goals, and was voted the PFA Young Player of the Year by fellow professionals.

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Childhood Of Celebrities : Luis Figo

Luis Filipe Madeira Caeiro Figo was born November 4, 1972, in Almada, Portugal, near the capital Lisbon. Growing up in a rather poor family, Figo displayed his football (European soccer) skills at a young age as a member of a local soccer team called Unio Futebol Clube Os Pastilhas.

By the time he was 10 years old, Figo was honing his skills as a player for Sporting Lisbon (one of Portugal’s 3 best teams), where he was already beginning to show his talents on the soccer field. At age 17, he was a European champion (after winning the FIFA World under-16 championship), and a champion yet again at 19, after taking home the FIFA World Under-20 championship.

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Childhood Of Celebrities : Gianluigi Buffon

Gianluigi Buffon was born in Carrara, Italy on 28/01/78 into a Sporting family: his mother, Maria Stella, was a disks thrower, his father, Adriano was a weight lifter, his two sisters, Veronica and Guendalina, play volleyball and his uncle, Angelo Masocco, played basketball. He is also a nephew of former Milan and Italy goalkeeper Lorenzo Buffon.

As a young boy growing up in Italy, Gigi played as a midfielder. However he decided to change his position to goalkeeper after he lost the will to run, this proved to be a great decision as Gigi is now one of the greatest goalkeepers in the world.

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