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Rusea's goalie targets professional career
published: Tuesday | February 27, 2007 <DIV class=KonaBody j4lQv="true">
Wayne Stewart
Claudia Gardner, Gleaner <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 700; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Writer</SPAN>
Lucea, Hanover:
Seventeen-year-old Wayne Sawyers of Hopewell, Hanover, has his sights unwaveringly set on becoming a professional goalkeeper.
As far as he can remember, the fifth former, who is currently the number two goalkeeper at Rusea's <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">High </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">School</SPAN>, started playing football at age seven where he and his friends kicked plastic bottles on the road to and from Bethel Primary and Junior High School in Hopewell, and later at the community playground.
"We used to set up <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">stones</SPAN> and the boys would kick shots at me," Sawyers said.
Sawyers also used to tag along behind his older cousin - the late former national Under-20 invitee, Rusea's and Legend goalkeeper Roger Topey, one of Hanover's best goalkeepers of all time - to <A class=kLink oncontextmenu="return false;" id=KonaLink3 onmouseover=adlinkMouseOver(event,this,3); style="POSITION: static; TEXT-DECORATION: underline! important" onclick=adlinkMouseClick(event,this,3); onmouseout=adlinkMouseOut(event,this,3); href="http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20070227/sports/sports13.html#" target=_new><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">football </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">tra
published: Tuesday | February 27, 2007 <DIV class=KonaBody j4lQv="true">
Wayne Stewart
Claudia Gardner, Gleaner <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 700; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Writer</SPAN>
Lucea, Hanover:
Seventeen-year-old Wayne Sawyers of Hopewell, Hanover, has his sights unwaveringly set on becoming a professional goalkeeper.
As far as he can remember, the fifth former, who is currently the number two goalkeeper at Rusea's <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">High </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">School</SPAN>, started playing football at age seven where he and his friends kicked plastic bottles on the road to and from Bethel Primary and Junior High School in Hopewell, and later at the community playground.
"We used to set up <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">stones</SPAN> and the boys would kick shots at me," Sawyers said.
Sawyers also used to tag along behind his older cousin - the late former national Under-20 invitee, Rusea's and Legend goalkeeper Roger Topey, one of Hanover's best goalkeepers of all time - to <A class=kLink oncontextmenu="return false;" id=KonaLink3 onmouseover=adlinkMouseOver(event,this,3); style="POSITION: static; TEXT-DECORATION: underline! important" onclick=adlinkMouseClick(event,this,3); onmouseout=adlinkMouseOut(event,this,3); href="http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20070227/sports/sports13.html#" target=_new><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">football </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">tra