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Monday 15 July 2019

5-FOR-5

Youngsters play on the pitch
during the final tournament
for the UK’s NFL Flag
Championship, featuring
qualifying teams from around
the country, at Tottenham
Hotspur Stadium in London,
Wednesday, July 3, 2019.
Associated Press
NFL opens

football

academy

in London

LONDON (AP) — For the
past three years, the only
way Sergei Starodoubtsev
experienced the NFL was
by watching highlights of
JuJu Smith-Schuster and
other players on Instagram.
That the 17-year-old found
himself sharing a field with
the Pittsburgh Steelers
wide receiver — he was
the one in workout clothes,
not Smith-Schuster — was
a little more than even he
could comprehend. “He’s
a different athlete and
such an amazing player,”
Starodoubtsev said, awe-
struck and struggling to find
his words as Smith-Schuster
addressed a group of fel-
low teenagers nearby. “I’m Djokovic wins 5th Wimbledon
trying to succeed in this
career and be on the big
TV and play in the NFL and title, beats Federer in tiebreaker
be in the same situation as
JuJu.” At 6-foot-3 and 238 Serbia’s Novak Djokovic celebrates defeating Switzerland’s
pounds with eye-catching
quickness, Starodoubtsev Roger Federer in the men’s singles final match of the
is, in many ways, exactly Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Sunday, July
what football coaches 14, 2019.
and recruiters across the Associated Press
United States desire.
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