For one so handsome, Olivier Giroud hasn’t had it all his own way. At the age of 21, when many of his contemporaries were playing Champions’ League football, the Frenchman signed his first contract. He played mostly that year in the fifth tier of French football, alongside amateurs and semi-professionals.
Or take Harry Kane, whose breakthrough season for Tottenham Hotspur came at the age of 22, following unsuccessful loan spells at Leyton Orient, Millwall, Norwich and Leicester City. Whatever happened to him?
