NFL comes to London offering way out for trapped teenagers
by Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#4JCCF)
American football stars talk of their troubled backgrounds as boys vie for place at academy
American football stars who escaped gangs, drugs and crime in some of the United States' toughest neighbourhoods arrived in Tottenham on Tuesday to seek out British teenagers who might follow their path to gridiron fame.
They watched as 120 boys from across the UK underwent trials at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium for places at a new NFL academy in north London that will offer further education and coaching in America's most popular sport.
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