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Music Hello and welcome to the Football for Kids podcast with me, Darren Reese.

It's time for another super listener only episode, this time on the England and Everton

number one goalkeeper, Jordan Pickford.

As this is a super listener episode, we don't do any shoutouts or anything else.

So, let's get into it, shall we?

Jordan Lee Pickford was born on the 7th of March, 1994, in a place called Washington in the northeast of England. Washington, where Jordan was born,

is actually linked to the first ever president of the United States of America, George Washington.

I won't tell you too much more about that because, well, this is a football podcast. I'm sure, unless you are from that area

and you're from Washington, you won't know much about it. But to keep it simple, Jordan is from

the Sunderland area. And I'm sure you'll be aware of Sunderland through the football team.

And that is exactly where things really started to kick off for Jordan Pickford.

But, like all kids, we have spoken about on this podcast, he played and practiced his football

on the street with his friends and with his family.

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