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Continuing the series about footballers who excelled at other sports. (For Part One please click here). Petr Cech As a boy growing up in the Czech Republic, Cech loved ice hockey and played it as a boy. However, he was forced to choose between it and football when he was a  teenager and, having made his choice, could not play ...

Some players when they are growing up are just natural athletes. They excel at multiple sports and are often forced to make a decision about which sport they want to follow professionally. At one stage it was not uncommon for a player to actually follow two parallel careers – Denis Compton, for example, played for Arsenal between 1936 and 1950 ...