Dad Quote by Steph Houghton

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 scouted at six by Everton. My parents said it was maybe a bit too young. A year later, I went down to…

— Jack Rodwell

My father signed me up for football training when I was only four and my grandfather also used to take me.

— Fred

When I was young my father used to play. He always took me to the training ground.

— Thomas Partey

My dad had a soccer school that he used to run, the Mark Chamberlain Soccer Academy, I used to go to that for two…

— Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

When I was a kid in Dronten, I played my first games when I was five-years-old and within one season a bigger club approached…

— Hakim Ziyech

My father and my mother were professional footballers and have also been coaches.

— Ada Hegerberg

I was at a local club, Penketh United, and Mike Glennie, a Manchester United scout, came to watch me. He spoke to my grandad…

— Jesse Lingard

Ever since I was a young kid, I've been playing for an academy with scouts all over the world that are looking for top…

— Danny Welbeck

I started out playing football in the park with my dad. My dad was a bit of a ball player, but he couldn't really…

— Jack Rodwell

I was a painter and decorator with my dad for four years and he gave me a lot of time off to train and…

— Jimmy Bullard

I was very fortunate that I had a great scouting staff at Everton from the academy, because it was those people who got the…

— David Moyes