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SIZE DOESN’T MATTER (IN FOOTBALL)!

KEVIN HALLS TAKES A LOOK AT SOME OF THE ‘SHORTER’ PLAYERS WHO HAVE STOOD TALL IN THE BEAUTIFUL GAME

DIMINUTIVE HEROES
SIZE really matters in some sports. For example, it helps to be tall if you’re a basketball player.
Yet in football, you don’t have to be from the land of the giants to be a success.
Indeed, some ‘shorter’ players have become stars of the beautiful game.
You only have to look at the awesome Lionel Messi who is a mere 5ft 7ins tall, but is without doubt one of the all-time greats.
And his fellow Argentinian Diego Maradona stood at a titchy ...

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