Bolt registers to play for Manchester Sunday league team
Eight-time Olympic champion sprinter Usain Bolt has registered to play for a veterans' Sunday league football team in Manchester.
Olympic superstar Usain Bolt has signed up to play for a senior citizens football team in Manchester, according to the Football Association's website. The 40-year-old Jamaican sprinter is now listed as a player for Wythenshawe Vets FC, a team competing in the Premier Division of the Cheshire Veterans Football League. Wythenshawe, based in south Manchester, previously made headlines for fielding a squad primarily composed of ex-professional footballers.
This season, their roster features former Premier League stars such as Emile Heskey, Oumar Niasse, Antonio Valencia, Papiss Cisse, Stephen Ireland, Nedum Onuoha, as well as Joleon Lescott and Danny Drinkwater. Bolt, the fastest athlete in recorded history over 100m and 200m, retired from competitive athletics in 2017 and briefly tried his hand at professional football, scoring twice for Australian A-League outfit Central Coast Mariners in 2018 before departing after only eight weeks. Attempts to reach Wythenshawe Vets FC for further comment have been unsuccessful.
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