🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🟣 OLLIE WATKINS 🟣 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (PART 2)

Football For Kids

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Sports, Kids & Family, Stories For Kids, Soccer

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🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Patreons and Apple podcast subscribers got this 10 days before everyone else, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/c/Footballforkids [email protected] In Part 2 of this special Football For Kids episode, Darren Rees follows Ollie Watkins through the moments that shaped an England and Aston Villa hero. From brutal loan spells at Weston super Mare and a career defining Devon derby winner, to the Brentford years, Premier League stardom at Aston Villa and that unforgettable England goal at Euro 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You can listen to any episode of Football for Kids without the adverts by listening on Patreon or via Apple podcast subscription.
0:10.1	Find the biggest voices in sports on the Sports Social Podcast Network.
0:14.4	Like me, Adam Collins from the award-winning final word cricket podcast covering the ashes in depth.
0:19.8	Described by Wisden, the game's Bible,
0:21.6	as the gold standard of cricket podcasts.
0:23.7	We'll have reviews of each day's play from the ground
0:25.8	covering every hit, miss and players inexplicably wandering out of their crease.
0:30.5	Search final word cricket and listen wherever you get your podcasts.
0:35.5	Sports Social Podcast Network
0:37.5	Find the biggest voices in sports on the Sports Social Podcast Network.
0:44.0	Like me, Hugh Ware, as seen on stage at this year's PDC World Darts Championships
0:48.4	with the Topps and Tales Darts podcast talking to the biggest names from the world of dance.
0:53.4	Search Topps and Tales Darts podcast and listen wherever you get your podcast from.
0:58.1	Sports Social Podcast Network. Hello and welcome to the Football for Kids podcast with me, Darren Reese.
1:25.8	And welcome to part two on this incredible journey of Olly Watkins,
1:31.2	the legend of England and of course Aston Villa. In part one, we learned that Olly grew up in
1:38.6	Newton Abbot in the southwest of England, raised by his hardworking mum and of course his
1:44.0	supportive dad as well.
1:46.6	His football journey did not begin with a big academy plan, but with a simple question from
1:51.4	a friend and that friend said to him, would you like to come training with me? Or was to that
1:56.7	effect? Ollie grew up playing with future pros at South Dartmoor Community College,
2:01.6	but his early trials at Exeter City were tough. At nine, he was not ready for academy life,
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