GARETH SOUTHGATE: A kid from the 郊外s with goofy teeth, nothing about me was 冷静な／正味の
It all seemed unremarkable at the time, but I recognise now how lucky I was. As a young boy, family life with Mum and Dad 申し込む／申し出d me 安定 and love. It’s something everyone deserves ? a solid start in life ? but the sad reality is that many 行方不明になる out.
Dad had a 職業 that いつかs took him to different offices around the country, and so we moved house a few times.
Having started life in Watford, we 長，率いるd for the North of England for a while, and then 負かす／撃墜する to the South Coast.
It meant that as soon as I got to know a few kids my age, we were off and I had to start all over again. I learned to adapt to new 状況／情勢s, socialise and fit in.
勝利者:?The England boss (circled) pictured with his team-mates from his under-12s days in Crawley?in West Sussex
同様に as switching schools with every house move, I had to start all over again with my football.
Out on the street, in the school yard or the park, it meant getting to know a whole new 始める，決める of friends and finding my place の中で them.
いつかs this made me feel anxious ? but the more I did it, and finally settling in Crawley in West Sussex, the easier it became.
I lived for football. I cycled to school but couldn’t carry my school 捕らえる、獲得する and my sports 道具 at the same time.
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So I’d ride home after lunch to 選ぶ up what I needed.
I started training one evening a week with Southampton and was in the same year group as Alan Shearer.
But I was a late develope r and, when I was 老年の 13?, Southampton’s 長，率いる of 青年 開発 told me that the club would be 解放（する）ing me.
They 明白に thought I wasn’t going to be good enough, and they even said they 疑問d I’d have the build.
England 経営者／支配人 Gareth Southgate pictured at the ウクライナ共和国 v England match during the Euro 2020 ４半期/4分の1 final in Rome, Italy, on July 3
I was 荒廃させるd. It was my first taste of 拒絶, and it left me in 涙／ほころびs.
Around this time I played football on a Sunday in Selsdon, 近づく Croydon in South-East London. A lot of the boys were also training with nearby 水晶 Palace.
Once I’d got over the shock of 存在 let go by Southampton, I wondered if there might be an 適切な時期 for me there. I 手配中の，お尋ね者 to 証明する that Southampton had made the wrong 決定／判定勝ち（する）.
Having been knocked 支援する so 早期に, I 設立する myself 答える／応じるing because of a mixture of 消極的な and 肯定的な drivers. I am still 動機づけるd by a combination of these two elements.
I was 15 when Palace 招待するd me to play for the under-18 味方する and then 申し込む／申し出d me an 見習いの身分制度, with a small 行う 加える travel exp enses from my home in West Sussex.
It meant a choice. After taking my O-levels, I could stay on for A-levels or follow the chance to work through the Palace 青年 and reserve squads, and finally earn my place as a first-team player.?
England 経営者／支配人 Southgate seen speaking with Mason 開始する and Jordan Pickford during the UEFA Euro 2020 選手権 ４半期/4分の1-final match between ウクライナ共和国 and England
It was a no-brainer. I had been playing 井戸／弁護士席 and thought I would just adapt to the step up from schoolboy to 見習い工. But I hated it. All of a sudden, the game I played for fun became my work.
Training became much tougher and I was nowhere 近づく strong enough. 早期に on, we had to do a 12-minute 回路・連盟 run. On my first 試みる／企てる, I was lapped by some older 見習い工s.
The coach made me do an extra （競技場の）トラック一周. By the time I got over the finish line, I was blubbering.
It was my 職業 to mop changing-room 床に打ち倒すs, clean the 洗面所s and look after the first-team players’ boots.
I didn’t mind hard work, but I struggled with the change from 存在 a schoolkid to a young adult with 責任／義務s.
反して a lot of the other 見習い工s were brimming with 信用／信任, 存在 the 静かな one meant I really stood out.
I didn’t help myself on my first day of training. I was used to wearing smart 着せる／賦与するs to travel to matches, and so I thought everyone would dress that way for training. So I wore my school shirt and trousers, only to find that everyone else was in a tracksuit or ジーンズs.
Southgate, Steve Holland, Assistant 経営者／支配人 of England, Graeme Jones and Chris Powell, Coaches of England, stand to sing the 国家の 国家 事前の to the UEFA Euro 2020 選手権 ４半期/4分の1-final match between ウクライナ共和国 and England on July 3
Cringing to myself, it felt like a 災害 before I’d even started. All my peers seemed so much more streetwise, and I was just this kid from the 郊外s with goofy teeth.
Nothing about me was 冷静な／正味の, and I felt I’d never fit in.
I played in defence for the 青年 team and we lost five of the first seven games. Soon after, an 傷害 meant I couldn’t play the next game. The coach, Alan Smith, called me in and just spoke his mind.
‘You weren’t going to play anyway,’ he said. ‘You’re a lovely bloke, Gareth, but as a footballer you’ve got no chance. If I were you, I’d think about becoming a travel スパイ／執行官.’
I realised later that Alan wasn’t really letting me go. He was just looking for a reaction. It was his way of waking me up to the fact that I needed to make some serious changes to my 見通し and かかわり合い if I was going to 生き残る.
But at the time I left and just cried my 注目する，もくろむs out.
I could have taken my coach’s 厳しい words to heart and my dreams would have ended 権利 there.
Instead, にもかかわらず feeling very sorry for myself, I knew what I had to do ? turn this low moment into a learning experience.
? Gareth Southgate, 2020
抽出するd from Anything Is Possible, by Gareth Southgate, published by Cornerstone at £16.99.
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