Usain Bolt to make football debut through Central Coast Marines
Usain Bolt is ready for his first football match. We all know the cool as a cucumber athlete. He is the fastest man alive, after all.
Usain Bolt is an 8-time Olympic sprint champion of Jamaican origin. He joined the Australian A-side league side for an indefinite training period earlier this month.
The Marines will face an amateur side in a friendly match on Friday. Some 10,000 fans are expected to show up at the stadium. The value does not go this high for such low-profile matches.
Bolt accepted that he was quite nervous about the game. But this is a step towards achieving his dream of becoming a professional football player.
“I think that will be a bit weird, but not too weird,” Bolt, who favours playing left wing, joked of the masks. “I’ve seen a little bit of that in track and field. But it will be something new to play the first game and see that.” He added, “There will be nerves, definitely. It’s not like a charity game anymore, this is a career I’m pursuing. I expect to make mistakes, but I also expect to go in, make myself proud and push myself.”
His dream is a work in progress right now. He is struggling with the constant start-stops of the sport, unlike dashing like a bullet like he usually does in the case of his sprinting games.
Bolt is expected to spend most of his Friday game on the bench. But his presence at the club’s base in Gosford, 75 kilometres north of Sydney, has generated global excitement and Mulvey is lapping it up.
The only thing to do right now is to wait and see what magic Usain Bolt can dish out for his debut performance. Will he be able to achieve the samce
