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    Chelsea and England star Ashley Cole recalls the joy of kick-arounds on Hackney Marshes: "Some of my best early memories of playing football in a park were for my local Sunday team. The team was called Puma and we played at Hackney Marshes. I played alongside Ledley King and J Lloyd Samuel and we played against the likes of John Terry, and Bobby Zamora. It looks like that is a place where quite a few careers were started." England captain John Terry has fond memories of his local park: "I lived in Barking as a youngster and right at the back of my house, literally just over the other side of the fence, was Newlands Park. Full Article at Vital Football
    Some of my best early memories of playing football in a park were for my local Sunday team. The team was called Puma and we played at Hackney Marshes. I played alongside Ledley King and J Lloyd Samuel and we played against the likes of John Terry, and Bobby Zamora. It looks like that is a place where quite a few careers were started.
    SOURCE: Vital Football 1 month ago
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London United's Park Life Video For 2018 Bid
  1. I used to play at Pitshanger Park, which was my local park as a kid. It was the best time for me, playing football with school friends. They are still my friends now. It is great to score goals in big stadiums but I had the most fun when I was playing in the park.
    SOURCE: Vital Football 1 month ago
  2. When I first started playing it was at the back of my Nan's house in Canning Town, east London. There was a field I used to play on with a few of my cousins and my mates who lived round there. We would use anything as a goal. Sometimes it could just be trees if they weren't too far apart or jackets.
    SOURCE: Vital Football 1 month ago
  3. I lived in Barking as a youngster and right at the back of my house, literally just over the other side of the fence, was Newlands Park. That's where I played all of my football growing up. It was always me and my brother against our two next door neighbours, Danny and Billy. We used to pretend we were ...
    SOURCE: Vital Football 1 month ago

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