Graduation Speech: Star Turf Indoor Football Center

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The moment you walk into the Star Turf Indoor Football Centre, you can almost tell straight away the kind of person you're going to get. A British man who lives and breathes football, being kitted out in football gear like he's about to walk out and play in the World Cup Final and built like your general English football player. As soon as he says hello, you get the energetic feelings that these kinds of people bring. This gives me the idea that this is football central for Hamilton and this place is just football football football, and since I've known him for years I wasn't the slightest bit surprised to see him being the same loud and funny guy. Duncan grew up in Manchester, which instantly makes you think of football. Growing up in a football mad city and country almost decided as soon as he was born what his life was going to revolve around. He was your typical English kid, football was his life and all he cared about, while school was something seen as a distraction. When asking him about his football upbringing and how it compared to New Zealand, he said "Just playing all the time, in England it's different to New Zealand in that's it's a way of life over there. …show more content…

Having a football related job is a desire for any football fan so Duncan has done well considering he was just an ordinary construction manager back in England, his first main job. Also never having any teaching about business in school shows how well he has done to adapt and make work out of his footballing