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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Ed Aarons

‘It can be a really lonely journey’: Myles Lewis-Skelly’s mum Marcia on being a star’s parent and agent

Marcia Lewis, mother of Arsenal player Myles Lewis-Skelly
Marcia Lewis: ‘The amount of people that say to me: I bet you can retire because Myles is this … that’s the language that’s not helpful.’ Photograph: Yolanda de Vries

If Marcia Lewis has learned anything in the past seven years, it is to keep pushing. “They probably thought by now I’d have disappeared,” the mother of the Arsenal and England left-back Myles Lewis-Skelly says with a laugh. “But I’m not that kind of girl. If I want to do something, I’m going to do it.”

In March Lewis-Skelly, at the age of 18, became the youngest player to score on his England debut, and life has changed considerably for Lewis since she received a call from an agent who wanted to represent her son when he was 11.

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