The friendly that took place on March 27 between England and Italy at Wembley was not only favorable to the Italian national team who finally managed to break the spell of the goal, but also to the English.
Indeed, to be precise, to a single Englishman who, almost at the end of the match, regardless of the final outcome, was already widely satisfied with how things went on the pitch. This is the grandfather of the footballer Lewis Cook , who made his debut in the national team in this match.
The debut of his grandson before the age of 26 was a certainty for grandfather Cook, so much so that in 2014 he decided to bet the sum of 500 pounds on a bet then given at 33. Disappointed by the results of the last matches, finally against Italy the coach Southgate allowed the youngster to enter the field to replace teammate Lingard in the 70th minute and gave his grandfather a win with many zeros.
So celebrate the Cook family for a debut in the national teamwhich we can define with a bang, given that in addition to representing the great opportunity for the player, he also earned his grandfather the sum of 17,000 pounds which correspond to about 19,000 euros! [/ vc_column_text] [/ vc_column] [/ vc_row]
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A similar episode is also linked to the figure of Rooney, Everton player, formerly of Manchester United. In this case it is the uncle who bet 250 pounds on his nephew, sure that in the 2006 German World Cup he would make his debut in the national team. The bet was made in 1998 and when Rooney entered the field against Trinidad and Tobago his uncle won the sum of £ 50,000. The great footballer has since given other satisfactions to his family and who knows that his uncle, a lover of gambling, hasn’t thought of betting on his success again in the future.
And still a grandfather who stakes everything on his grandson in the case of Harry Wilson, but the disconcerting thing is that the bet is made when the footballer was only 2 years old. Farsighted and confident, his grandfather knew, or at least hoped, that the boy would one day play in Wales and bet a whopping 50 pounds, which many years later, in 2013, earned 250 times the stakes, when Wilson made his debut against Belgium in the game. world qualification challenge.
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And the fathers
They too do not hide the trust in the abilities of their child, if he loves football, and two different cases testify how this trust is really well spent.
In 2006 it was the turn of the Kirkland family: the father of the former Liverpool goalkeeper, Chris Kirkland , together with 12 friends decided to focus on the player’s debut in the national team before the age of 30 and won the beauty of 10,000 pounds. Ryan Tunnicliffe
‘s father did the same, that when his son entered the field in 2012 in a round of the League Cup, he won the sum of 10,000 pounds for having bet on it a full 10 years earlier. At that time Tunnicliffe was a member of Manchester United, today he is a Wigan player.
There are many bets that bind the ball to trusting relatives towards the children and grandchildren of football players. Not all of them turn out to be successful, of course, but when it happens they make headlines and also serve to increase the fame of the protagonist footballer. That is why we are sure that Lewis Cook will be heard for a while.