Usain Bolt Was Dead Serious About Fulfilling His Soccer Dreams

Usain Bolt is one of the greatest athletes of all time and his track and field dominance in the Olympics is one for the history books. Since retiring after the 2016 Summer Olympics, Bolt has expressed on numerous occasions that he wanted to play soccer.

Well, it looks like that’s about to happen. On Tuesday it was announced that he was going to be joining the Central Coast Mariners squad in Australia.

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OFFICIAL: Nine-time Olympic champion @usainbolt will join A-League side Central Coast Mariners to train for an ‘indefinite period’

We have seen him leave people in the dust on the track. We’ll see if he can use that speed to do his thing on the pitch.

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