The Bahamas Weekly News Team brings you an exclusive video interview with famous football (soccer) player and coach, Luther Blissett taken June 28th at the beautiful Pelican Bay Hotel on Grand Bahama Island.
Here Blissett speaks about moving to England at the age of five, and about his football career. He also talks about his second love - car racing, and speaks about his upcoming activities with Team 48 - a car racing team promoting Afro-Caribbean racers. He is one of the drivers.
Blissett was on Grand Bahama Island for his fourth visit to coach at the Premier League Grand Bahama Summer Soccer Camp.
He was one of the first black footballers to play for England, and scored a
hat-trick
on his first full international match - a 9-0 win over
Luxembourg
. This made him the first black player ever to score a hat-trick for the national team.
Blissett has worked as a television pundit, for
Channel 4
and
Bravo's
coverage of
Serie A
.
With fellow former footballers
John Barnes
and
Les Ferdinand
, he has founded
Team48 Motorsport .
For 2008 they will enter the
British Touring Car Championship
, running
Alfa Romeos
for
white
Jamaican
Matthew Gore
and 18-year-old black Briton
Darelle Wilson
.
Blissett's name has been adopted by many people in radical activist circles as a
nom de plume or collective alias when engaged in weird performances, media hoaxes, and the production of radical theory. The Luther Blissett multiple name project first began in 1994 in Italy, no doubt a consequence of his link with
A.C. Milan
, and has since then been widely used by artists, underground reviews, poets, performers and
squatters
' collectives in cities throughout Europe and South America. In 1999 "Luther Blissett" authored a historical novel called
Q
, which soon became an international bestseller.
On 30 June 2004 the real Luther Blissett took part in the British television sports show
Fantasy Football League - Euro 2004, broadcast on
ITV
. He jokingly claimed that he himself was part of the Luther Blissett Project, and read aloud the following sentence from an LBP manifesto (in Italian): "Chiunque può essere Luther Blissett, semplicemente adottando il nome Luther Blissett" [Anyone can be Luther Blissett simply by adopting the name Luther Blissett]. Highlights of the show are available on
YouTube
.
Coach and former pro player, Luther Blissett stands next to a fan (aka Caitlin Antoni, a junior coach) at the Freeport Rugby Football Club, during the Annual English Premier League Soccer Camp, of which he has participated in four times.
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Video - Premier League GBI Soccer Camp 2008
The English Premier League Soccer Camp is underway!
Luther Blissett to return to the 5th Annual Premier League GB Soccer Camp
Three top-notch coaches coming from the UK for the Premier League Soccer Camp 2007
