England Futsal Player - Stuart Cook

5 years ago, my England career was cut short, weeks before I was due to travel to Italy, for what would have been the biggest game in the sports history, when I tore my second ACL whilst playing.

12months of hard graft through COVID followed, and I was ready to resume my International career, when again it was taken away from me by The FAs sudden budget cuts and complete removal of Futsal from their remit as an NGB.

I've spent the last 5 seasons committed to this sport in any way that I can to help promote it, develop it and enhance it in my own little way. From playing (occasionally) coaching (a lot), taking on the running of a club (cheers Mic), even washing kits every week, but hopefully showing kids and onlookers alike that this sport is worth it.

So here we are today, 5 years on. England Futsal Men's National Team returned 10months ago, and I made the decision to spend 2024 working hard to put myself in a position to compete for England again, who wouldn't. A number of senior training camps throughout the year, mainly spent chasing around a lot of energetic young men(and Russ), and I'm still clinging on to an old mans dream of pulling on that 3 lions shirt again.

England Futsal are currently failing in their efforts to meet the required funds to compete.

Any donations will help towards me representing England, along with covering costs of travel, accommodation and training costs amongst other things.

If England fail to meet the required target, you can be assured your donations will go towards my future knee and hip replacements or any immediate operations required, because we all know chasing Spain around is going to be a massive task for this injury prone old man.

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