There are a number of people that I would consider as a sporting role model but as I only have 200 words I will just do 1. The 1st would be for soccer player Gary Lineker while today people remember him as the match of the day present and star of crisp adverts his approach to soccer was something to really look up to. Firstly his achievements are some times diminished as a man who just scored easy goals but you have to remember this man has the joint record for most England goals ever, he was a success at every team he played for, when he played for Barcelona he became fluent in Spanish, at the end of his career in Japan he learnt Japanese. But one of the biggest things that stand out are the number of cards he received in his career, 0. That is right he played 567 times and scored 330 goals and in all that time never received a card. That is amazing, he played the game so clean and without malice and this is an achievement that is so often under played. He played a sport for 16 years, was considered as one of the best in the world when he played and he always played so fair he was never carded.
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