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Tobin Heath

Profession : Football Player

Birth : May 29, 1988

I love superhero movies.

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You're able to see situations over and over again and just become comfortable in different decision-making situations. I think that comes with experience.

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Similar to the familiarity I've always had with the ball, there's this familiarity that the game has given me over years of understanding it and living it.

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Ronaldinho is the best. I just like the joy and the love he has when he plays, it just shines for everyone else to see. He always does something nobody expects him to do. I think that's really cool, that creativity you don't find anywhere else.

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As I've gotten older, I've been given more responsibility. I think I've grown into that.

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I love to learn.

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All of my football, even my introduction, even my coaches, most of them came from Europe, particularly England. So pretty much my whole footballing education and introduction was through English football.

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I think I always had, like, a rebellious spirit. But it wasn't a rebellious spirit to do wrong. It was a rebellious spirit to do something different.

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I always try and get as many as touches as I can with the ball because that's the most important thing for me as a player is to feel comfortable in that way.

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I think it's being able to do both, obviously being able to play your role in the team and those responsibilities but also being able to have that freedom... to express yourself in the way that you play.

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I think you have to obviously be familiar with how the team wants to play and play to that style. But I think you also have to find a way to be yourself.

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In football in this country, we want to be able to check off every box of a soccer player. You have to be good at this and this and this. Because of our society, and the way that I grew up in soccer, I had to become well-rounded-but I also cherished the parts of me that made me special.

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I just know who I am and what I like.

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It was almost like I gravitated toward the people who were encouraging me to be like myself and to be creative and be different.

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My coaches - and even my parents - wanted to give me the space for exploration to see what I could do. Or even to see what I couldn't do and what I would want to learn how to do. It was always about inspiring me and giving me that freedom that you would want in childhood.

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People don't want to just root for a team anymore. They want to root for something more.

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The most important thing to me is to inspire all these athletes in the next generation.

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I remember playing one of our first matches in Old Trafford, the home of Manchester United, and I remember that feeling of just being in that iconic venue.

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I'm passionate about making this country and the youth passionate about football.

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I think the most effective coaching for youth is to encourage them to try things, to be unique and be different.

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