Wenger said the ability to deal with setbacks was part and parcel of a footballer's life.
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Mr Nesbo was a footballer, stockbroker and rock musician before creating his hard-bitten detective, Harry Hole.
As a footballer, Mr Tull joined Tottenham Hotspur in 1909, becoming the first black professional outfield footballer.
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Adams' unshakeable self-belief and single-mindedness helped him achieve much to be admired as both a footballer and man.
Although she is the girlfriend of a footballer, Christine grimaces at the mere mention of the term WAG.
He's not only a footballer and a colleague to those players in the dressing room but an outstanding young man.
But there are limits to how far data can take you, particularly with the often distracted or influenced mind of a footballer.
"Having been extremely lucky in the career I had as a footballer, I'm now concentrating on my second passion, music, " he added.
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Five men charged with attacking a footballer outside a Crete nightclub could be extradited to Greece within a week, their solicitor has said.
He is a footballer blessed with natural ability who also realised at a young age that talent is nothing without application and practice.
Certainly McLeish's measured style is more in keeping with a man who trained as an accountant before he made it as a footballer.
But as a mark of respect to a footballer who was a thoroughly decent bloke and who died in the most dramatic of circumstances?
The central defender's move to the Emirates completes a remarkable rise for a footballer who was playing for Ligue 2 side Tours last year.
But he said he was a giant of a man and a "great working class man" who would have been a miner if not a footballer.
He recalls Romario's distress at picking up an injury before the 1998 World Cup - a tournament "which could have been his definitive statement as a footballer".
If parliament approves its plan, some of a footballer's earnings will count as royalties rather than salary, and therefore be exempt from France's cripplingly high welfare contributions.
"Like anything, it takes a little bit of time, but my skills as a footballer probably suit the 10 position more than the 15 position, " said Norton-Knight.
If you can name the current curling gold medallist, or find a footballer working the till at your local supermarket, I may be converted to your perspective.
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Adria's interest in cooking began at home in Barcelona with his parents and younger brother Albert, but then becoming a footballer was of greater interest to the young Ferran.
Discussing the decision by a Scottish newspaper to publish the identity of a footballer who has taken out an injunction, he said the English legal system has "no jurisdiction whatsoever" to intervene.
With a body like an oil drum, and a retinue of gunmen around him, he prowls the streets of Kabul looking less like a banker than like a footballer lost in a war zone.
He's a footballer, he plays football.
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"Mark Cueto has played full-back recently for his club, and looking at the way we want to play our game, we are looking to have a player who is comfortable as a footballer with the back three, " said England coach Brian Ashton.
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When it is obvious that all you want to do as a kid is play football, these interruptions are as curious as they are eccentric, but my outlook on life really began to change out of all recognition when I became a footballer.
We learned about Phil's realisation that he would never make it as a footballer and his decision to go into sport journalism instead, as well as his childhood sporting hero - Charlton full-back John Humphrey, who none of us had ever heard of!
The missing athletes include five male boxers, a female footballer and a male swimmer, Paul Ekane Edingue, said David Ojong, Cameroon's head of mission to London 2012.
The coach of a teenage footballer from Wiltshire who suffered a cardiac arrest during a match wants all children to be taught life-saving first aid.
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"Gary Ablett was a good footballer but it will take him a while to learn how to be a manager, " added Smith.
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