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    Everyone was laughing at me. The earliest surviving photograph of Federer playing tennis, borrowed from the family's private album, shows him swinging at a forehand with great enthusiasm and no little skill. Then I remembered he was out there playing. Simon Heffer Cricket will have no need for red cards if captains do their jobs properly. More from the web.

    And send us the ones we are missing. The manager, the gaffer, the boss, the head coach.

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    Regardless of what you call the person that runs the team his take on the game is always important but that does not mean they are always eloquent. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that. If you are second, you are nothing. I was on the beach. Fergie be nice, not everyone can coast into Europe every season and lounge on the beach. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball. Uruguay has its football. They are only there to sign the checks. They were a lot better than we thought. At least, it is good for everyone: In October, win two games and we qualify.

    Check these famous quotes from players, managers, fans, and pundits. Managers like to think they are in control but it is the players who get the results. They are the idols for kids around the globe and have their moments of brilliance and lunacy on the field and while talking about the beautiful game. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.

    Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence. But Federer's mother said that he quickly matured at Ecublens. You have to work at things," she said. But those struggles were good for him.

    Overcoming those ups and downs was a challenge for him, and it helped him to develop as a person. Federer, who combined tennis and schoolwork, spent two years at Ecublens and also at Biel when the Swiss national centre moved there. He was starting to form a close working relationship with Peter Carter, an Australian coach whom he had originally met at the Old Boys Tennis Club.

    Carter taught Federer to use his emotional energies more wisely, and to think through exactly what he was doing on court. He was ranked the world's top junior in , winning Junior Wimbledon in the same year, though sadly Carter would never witness his protege's Wimbledon singles triumphs, as he died in a car accident in The only visible sign of teenage rebellion for Federer was the peroxide stage he went through.

    He turned his hair an unflattering yellow-white, which amused Barlocher. But we have the photos of it, so he will not be able to forget that particular hairstyle," she said. Federer has not forgotten his early years, and still lives in Basle, in the suburb of Oberwil, occasionally training at the Ciba Tennis Club.

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    He is usually left alone in a city that does not have a fawning obsession with celebrities, and he feels able to mingle with the amateur players in between training sessions at the club. He still visits the Old Boys club and has been known to return to the small bar, which has a colour painting of him hanging on the wall, to play cards with his friends. He is still in contact with Barlocher and Kacovsky, sending them text messages with updates of his progress around the tennis globe.

    A few weeks ago Federer returned to the club for a fund-raising exhibition match. He was delighted when, just before the match started, a sign was unveiled showing that the old Court One had been renamed 'Roger Federer Centre Court', a tribute to his two Wimbledon titles. Federer's friends and old coaches watched the Wimbledon final on the clubhouse television. Everyone was laughing at me. Luckily Roger finished the match a little later. That was a great day at the club. We were so proud.

    We drank champagne and we cried. Football scores and fixtures.

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