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At the age of 15, Rickie Lambert was given the upsetting news that he wasn’t good enough to play for Liverpool. 16 years later, Liverpool signs a 32-year-old Rickie Lambert from Southampton. Lambert’s story is proof that age is never a factor when it comes to fulfilling your ambition.
Lambert used to put lids on beetroot jars, earning £20 in the day and train with Macclesfield in the evening. Despite his financial hardships after leaving Blackpool in 2000, the Englishman never let his ambition of playing football go to ruins.
Lambert went from strength to strength after successful seasons at Stockport, Rochdale, and Bristol Rovers before making it to League One division with Southampton. The Englishman was just getting started as he fired the Saints to the English Premier League. Having scored 29 goals in the following two seasons of the Premier League, Lambert also received an England call-up at the age of 31 and went on to score his first goal for England against Scotland at Wembley.
In almost two decades of playing professional football, Lambert has achieved the unthinkable playing every division in England as well as the Champions League after he joined Liverpool in 2014. The England international’s career certainly came full circle after he joined the Merseyside club.
Rickie Lambert’s career is one those special stories in football that can relate to the lives of the working class and inspire a new generation of footballers.
