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BIOGRAPHY

Joe Cole
	BIOGRAPHY | GALLERY | GOSSIP

Despite not even playing football properly until the age of eleven, Joe has earned huge acclaim for his silky skills.

From an early age, he has been watched by some of the biggest clubs in England.

He has even been given Manchester United shirts in an attempt to coax him to their club. However, he decided to stay loyal to the first club that tried to take him in West Ham.

Since then he has been in the papers countless times since the age of fifteen and had received more media hype by the age of eighteen than most players will get in their careers.

He certainly has the right background to go on to be the best. He followed in the footsteps of people of the popularity of Michael Owen by going to the school of excellence at Lilleshall at the age of 14 making the leap from someone just starting out in team football to one of England's stars of the future in the space of three years.

He even earned a days training with the England team before he played his first game! And even more surprisingly he was more nervous about having lunch and playing golf with the England team than playing, stating about the day, "The training was alright."

"When you're playing football you don't think about who you're passing the ball to, you just play naturally."

Joe Cole is seen by many people as the future of English football. He has been tipped to become a future England international, and has been called the next Gazza. However this was before he'd even touched a ball, and now with his skills in full show, people are going on about him even more.

Far from being the flash in the pan that some people expected, he has so far gone from strength to strength, with his most promising game so far being his second Under-21 international in which he totally controlled the match for the 74 minutes he was in it.

He's also been recognised at a younger age by the national team as well, appearing in the Under-15's side. He continued to force an impression to make it through to the Under 18's and now the days seem numbered before Keegan has no choice but to put him in the full squad.