Nathan Green with his Rwandan footballers
History graduate inspired future footballers in Africa. Young footballer Nathan Green's life took a different path when an injury scuppered his chances of playing for Premiership side Liverpool. But Nathan, 21, from Flintshire in north Wales, who graduates today (Thursday 11 July) at The Dome in Brighton with a degree in History, ended up helping to inspire future footballers in Africa having decided to study for a degree at Sussex. Nathan says: "I am a huge Liverpool fan and football was, and still is, a huge part of my life, so it was an amazing chance for me. It was a very tough decision but after my injury all signs pointed to the safer educational option being the better one." At the end of his first year at Sussex, Nathan travelled around Rwanda as a volunteer coach to young footballers in the country. His pupils included primary schoolchildren and 17-year-olds with the ability to make a career in top-flight football. He also captained a team including a Manchester City academy player, an ex-professional footballer and an ex-professional cricketer against an established Rwandan team in a match at the Rwandan FA.
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