Toulouse: On Monday, Neil Taylor scored Wales’
second goal against Russia. Interestingly Taylor, who plays as a left-back has
never scored for his current club team Swansea and scored his last goal in
2010! Gareth Bale ran forward and passed a ball behind the right-back Smolkinov
to put Taylor through who thinks about it and hits the keeper and luckily the
ball comes back to him and he manages to put it past the keeper.
This is a tournament where Ronaldo, Lewandowski,
Ibrahimovic, Muller and Kane haven’t been able to score yet. Eligible to play
for either Wales or India, Taylor made his debut for Wales on May 23, 2010
against Croatia. Neil Taylor is the only British Asian playing in the Premier
League. Other than him only Michael Chopra and Zesh Rehman have played in the
Premier league.
Neil said. “All parents will drill their kids to
be education-based, with your dreams put to one side to what will get you
through life and get you a career. The obvious question is why aren’t there any
already? I think it’s one of them things which has got a stigma attached to it
and maybe players believe that they won’t get the opportunity, or that people
(coaches) aren’t seeing them. All these different types of things need to
change.” Because of Taylor’s non-Indian sounding name, a lot people don’t
believe he has an Asian background. Well if they didn't know him before, they
are going to know him now!”
Neil is Indian-Welsh. The 27-year-old footballer's mother comes from
Calcutta and I have close family both there and in Delhi. To have his presence
be felt at such a huge international stage is no mean feat and Neil is
certainly paving the way for more budding footballers to take up the sport
professionally.
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