School and football may not seem to have anything in common, but then I thought of Marcus Rashford, who has been instrumental in supplying free school dinners by way of his #MakeTheUTurn campaign, which saw free school meals continue even when the schools were closed for the summer.
Marcus Rashford was born in Manchester on the 31st of October, 1997, and who was signed by Manchester United at the age of seven, after being spotted during a match involving his first team, Fletcher Moss Rangers, though, strangely, he was their goalkeeper. Being signed at the age of seven does not mean that he ran straight on the field that Saturday with all the adults towering over him, he had lots of training, and regular schooling, first, and then joined the Under-15, Under-18, and Under-19 squads. In fact his first outing for the Manchester United first team was not until 2016.
He also made his debut in the England Squad that year, and scored in that match, becoming the youngest English player to score in his first senior international match.
He stayed with Manchester United until 2025, then was loaned out to Aston Villa and Barcelona. After that, he was loaned to Barcelona, where he chose to stay on, and remains to this day, though he is still technically on loan.
This is one of the sub sets that were allied to Panini`s base set of six hundred and eighty cards for UEFA 2016, the others being either circulated in certain countries (Albania, Austria, France, Hungary, Poland, Spain), or distributed at eateries or with food and drink (Coca-Cola. McDonalds).
Oddly, the latter cards were given free with any purchase, and the Spanish and French started out by giving packets away in magazines - so that makes those ones trade, rather than commercial, but sadly there is no way of telling which were trade and which were commercial with the Spanish and the French ones.