9 footballers who were written off too early in their career
The plot of most sports movies are centered around a team or a player who is not good enough to make it to the top during a certain period of their career and then eventually turn it around with hard work and determination.So if any script writer is looking for ideas or inspiration for a story line, they should look no further than the story of these nine players who were outcasts or considered to have lacked the quality to play for a certain team earlier on in their career. And of course they proved those who doubted their talent wrong and went on to succeed later on.
#1 Thierry Henry
Everyone knows Thierry Henry as the Arsenal legend or one of the greatest if not the greatest Premier League player. But there was a time when the iconic Frenchman was deemed not good enough to play for Italian club Juventus.
Henry was part of Arsene Wenger’s Monaco before he joined his compatriot at Arsenal. He joined Monaco as a youth player and when he broke into the first team he was deployed as a left winger. He had an impressive few year with Monaco during which he was awarded the French Young Footballer of the Year Award in 1996 and then won the FIFA World Cup with France in 1998.
In January 1999, Henry completed a move to Juventus where he was deployed as a right winger. The Frenchman struggled against the tight Italian defensive approach to the game in a position which was new to him.
After just half a season with Juventus he was sold to Arsenal where he reunited with Arsene Wenger. It was at Arsenal that Henry became a striker and the rest is history!