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professional player Media Pack Welcome to a world of quality, style and luxury. Welcome to a magazine which scores on every level. Welcome to Professional Player, the ultimate publication read by the game’s greatest professional player footballers and their families. rofessional Player is an exciting publication, the first which is designed and written exclusively issue 17 • march 2017 Pfor footballers, past, present and future. The professional magazine addresses issues facing the modern professional both on and off the field, providing the ultimate good player living guide, as well as inspiring players who are nearing retirement and need a new focus. Professional Player is a concept, with the magazine being the platform to reach an influential and affluent audience of professional footballers who enjoy a luxury lifestyle and all that comes with it. 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ISTANBUL While entertaining, Professional Player is also outstanding nightclubs; supreme cultural floor in the city’s tallest building, offering THE TEMPTING TEN The Presidential Suite experiences and spectacular casinos. panoramic views of the city. 10 INTERCONTINENTAL But before we talk about his career so far, I first going to really, as I’ve always supported them”. passed with flying colours. Lingard’s celebrationThe wasn’t Villa Lajust Cupola that of in a playerRome’s Excelsior is Other incredible spoils of the trip include: a HONG KONG wanted to take Jesse Lingard back to where it all who had scored an FA Cup Final winning goal. It Visit: VeryFirstTo.com The Royal Suite, But as every professional footballer knows; life as Successful stints at Leicester City, Derby County, the largest suite in Europe occupying 1,100 10-room suite with a stunning 1,250-square- London Two Story Sky Villa, Las Vegas began. Warrington... a youngster at a football club is no easy ride, and Birmingham City, and Brighton and Hove Albion was the celebrationsquare of someone metres, who and hadhas scoredrecently the undergone foot living room with a grand piano and for further details “I was always heavily into sport from an early Lingard trained two or three times a week and saw Lingard negotiate the physical side of the league, winning goal in ana FA£5.5m Cup refurbishment Final for the team including they a domed dining room illuminated with a splendid age”, states Lingard, who also played Rugby when played matches at the weekend for United. It meant whilst his quick feet, eye for a pass, and spatial supported from anliving early room age. featuring a breath-taking hand 22-carat gold chandelier (Bridge Suite, The an educational guide for the modern footballer he was a youngster, too. “I went to a school called leaving his Penketh team mates behind, and making awareness shone brightly. None more so than on “Spot on. I have Unitedfrescoed in myCupola. heart, A so private scoring lift the and marble Atlantis Resort, Bahamas); a magnificent William Beaumont High School in Warrington, and sacrifices to pursue his dream. his debut for Birmingham City against Sheffield winner for them instaircase an FA Cup lead Final... to the wow... upper I just floor caught of the suite, master bedroom with a handmade marble I suppose it was more of a rugby school to be honest, But as the player states “I kept and still keep in Wednesday in September 2013, a game the player it perfectly, right inwith the itssweet own spot. private It was fitness the greatest room, sauna, hammam, private steam room and rain so I played quite a bit of that”. touch with friends and family back in Warrington all remembers fondly, as he sits facing me, a gigantic feeling ever, especiallysteam with bath my and family a magnificent being there”. Pompeian- shower; and glass balconies, floor-to-ceiling So, we almost lost his explosive attacking talents to the time. But when you are at Manchester United, smile breaking out... But Wembley hadn’tstyle seen Jacuzzi the lastwith of mosaic Jesse Lingard’sfloors, vaulted windows providing a 360-degree view of ‘...the Presidential Suite at the the oval ball game? you don’t take that lightly. You have to give your “Yeah, what a game that was. I was nervous fireworks just yet.ceiling Just andunder frescoes three recallingmonths later, the atmosphere all Manhattan, plus a chauffeured Rolls- Royal Suite, Dubai “Ha, ha, no, definitely not. My mum said I first all when you have a chance at this really special beforehand, as it was my first game for a new club, he scored anotherof stunning ancient goalRoman that baths. graced the Royce Phantom, round-the-clock personal Intercontinental in Hong Kong allows with well researched healthcare and lifestyle kicked a ball when I was six months old and football football club. There is nothing better than signing but it was one of those days when everything went Wembley turf, as JoseThe MourinhoPenthouse started Suite in his the United legendary butler and unlimited caviar, champagne Ritz, Tokyo was always the sport I loved”, he states, before I ask for Manchester United, and when you’re already a well for me”. management tenureGeorge with V a hasvictory stunning in The terraces FA offering and massages (TY Warner Penthouse, Four one to experience a wrap-around fan of the club...” Seasons Hotel, New York). him about which team he living in a town virtually ‘Went well’ is a little bit of an understatment; at the Community Shieldsweeping against Leicesterviews of Paris’City. architectural icons. harbour view terrace’ equidistant between Liverpool and Manchester. It’s a chance that he took with both hands, end of the game, Birmingham had beaten Wednesday And Lingard hopesIts tobedroom be treading walls on are that covered very in gold-toned This extraordinary trip is managed by “I’ve always been a Man United fan”, states Lingard, culminating in United’s FA Youth Cup win in 2011, 4-1, and Lingard had scored all four goals! same turf on a regularsilk, thebasis marble for his bathroom country too, boasts after an infinity Hurlingham Travel the highly regarded luxury The Sultan Suite, Istanbul The Presidential Suite, Hong Kong PHOTOS: VERYFIRSTTO.COM AND TIMOTHY OULTON TIMOTHY AND VERYFIRSTTO.COM PHOTOS: with a steely gaze that left me in o doubt as to his with Lingard scoring in the first leg of the Final.