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Claire Galloway

Scots footballer helping children in Africa take up game after car crash ended career

The story of how a former footballer helped children in Africa take up the sport after his career was ended by a car crash is to be made into a movie.

Mark Holmes, who used to play for Falkirk, Ross County and Inverness Caley Thistle, was only 26 when the accident put paid to his ambitions.

But he went on to set up a the Mark Holmes Football Academy in Inverness and now runs three sites in Ghana which are changing young players’ lives.

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