Wheelchair-bound Jack trains to be football coach
Sports-mad: Jack Morrell with dad Phil and a Paralympic torch belonging to Michael McGrath, leader of the charity Muscle Dreams which paid for the pair to visit the Games.
A muscular dystrophy sufferer is about to begin a two-year apprenticeship at Hemel Hempstead Town FC that will help him become a coach in the sport.
Jack Morrell, 18, was diagnosed with the condition 10 years ago and has been in a wheelchair since he was 11.
But he overcame hardship to become a member of Great Britain’s power-wheelchair football squad and hopes to compete in the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Paralympic Games.
His sport narrowly missed selection for the London 2012 Paralympics.
Dad Phil, 51, who runs Morrell’s Sandwich Bar in Hemel Hempstead’s Maylands Avenue with wife Helen, said: “The important thing is to have goals and ambitions and that would be one of Jack’s ambitions.”
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