User:Dazmaz1970

darren marsden footballer and sports enthusiast

darren started out in a football team from greater manchester at the age of just 7 years old, his life was just football he played for thorpe united fc it was nothing more than a local gathering but ment so much to him along spell out of football was next for darren who made music his main hobby, infact he got as far as the doors of hospital radio but in 1987 his passion for football was born again, he played for local sunday league sides as a roaming right side midfield after playing in many clubs in the sunday leagues he found himself at 2 semi-pro teams called maine rd and latertrafford fc training at them teams was good for darren although at first found it a step up to fast but found his feet in the end he also tried his hands at goalkeeping and done very well in this position, it was his time at altrincham fc that he was almost in the bigtime, although only training it was a great experience for darren, it was atleast 6 months as a goalkeeper with altrincham he decided to give trafford fc a try out again where he got a game atlast, his goalkeeping skills helped trafford reserves to a 1-1 draw, darren was also a football coach through his time in football he gained a fa leaders certificate and other awards and helped alot of people along the way, coaching a school football team from chorlton in greater manchester was his best days as a coach, as time passed darren at the age of 28 decided that maybe football was not the direction he wanted anymore despite his talents he went into athletics, he was always into athletics and trained with a fellow runner he met at trafford ac doing 100m sprints but his times were only 15.5 but atleast it was consistent, he then joined in a open event at trafford athletic club but not doing so well due to an injury, it was a year before he joined in with the club although never a member he had 2 years of great training, in the end he was doing 12.8 seconds for 100m, his times were dropping, then a bombshell hit him and his time in athletics was over although he did try again at sale harriers athletic club in wythenshawe however distance was a huge issue and couldnt make it for night training, darren was always into martial arts and has got to a good standard in tae kwon do where he trained in stretford although never took any belts due to costs it was said to him had he taken his belts he would have been a brown belt at the time, martial arts comes up in darren history alot, he then found cycling through a friend and it was that sport darren loved, he got a road bike but found it hard to get the best kit due to costs involved, but still he did the best he could with what he had and enjoyed every mpment, he won a prudential challenge in the arndale center in manchester, and it was at that time he had a nice bike to ride,he competed in a few time trials at seamons cc although he loves cycling his best talents was in football in summary darren was a true sportsman and was good in everything he did and continues cycling and martial arts to this day