Just Now: Matt Turner explains what he suffers most becoming Nottingham Forest goalkeeper….

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Matt Turner has admitted that he didn’t start playing football until the age of 16.

The Nottingham Forest goalkeeper admitted that he was more into sports such as baseball and basketball as a youngster before the 2010 World Cup came around.

USA were in the same group as England in South Africa with Turner admitting that it was the 2010 World Cup that changed his passion for football.

However, he admitted that he struggled with his kicking when starting out as a goalkeeper.

Matt Turner on his struggles during his teenage years

In his interview with the BBC, the goalkeeper admitted that he used to struggle with his kicking technique, with Turner often getting centre-backs to take goal-kicks for him.

The World Cup in 2010 was really what got me into the sport,” Turner told BBC East Midlands Today.

“That’s when I was 16 and started playing soccer, or football, year-round after that.

“Before that, I kind of flirted with the idea of playing. Both my older sisters played, but really I was more a baseball guy, a basketball guy and they are the sports I played since I could walk.

I couldn’t take my own goal kicks until I was 20 years old. I just didn’t have the ability or strength to really lift the ball up into the air.

“I was always that goalkeeper that was asking the centre-back to come take his goal kicks.

“The hard thing for me was catching up with my technique

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