Family Quote by Miralem Pjanic

I started playing at six. I was at a school always playing football with my friends. But I was always bored at home. I…

— Romelu Lukaku

I played club football with a traveling team since I was 8 years old. I also played basketball and baseball, so I was competing…

— Jesse Palmer

I joined a big club like Monaco and it was extraordinary for my growth as a player. That gave me the chance to break…

— David Trezeguet

My coaching career started at the age of 19, senior football then at 25. In Germany at that time, it was almost impossible to…

— Ralf Rangnick

I didn't play on an organized team until I was 13 or 14 years old. Two years later, I was invited to the Junior…

— A'ja Wilson

Before Bolton I played for Real Madrid and I was getting involved in the first-team training since I was 16 and then I played…

— Marcos Alonso

When I was 6 years old, I played on a coed indoor team. We were called the Cosmos. And then, after that, when I…

— Ali Krieger

I was at Boulogne, in the second team - the sixth, then the fifth division. I wasn't professional, so I kept studying because I…

— N'Golo Kante

I was playing first-team football at Cardiff at 16.

— Aaron Ramsey

I was about five or six when I went to the little foundation camps. I got into the academy when I was nine, and…

— Sean Longstaff

I first realised I was good at football when I started getting scouted by United, Liverpool, Everton; clubs like that had a lot of…

— Jesse Lingard

I got to play first-team men's football from a young age.

— James Maddison