Troy Parrott | Inner Drive - Part 2
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How did Troy Parrott's journey in football begin?
This is why we love football, because things like this can happen.
I love when he plays for his country.
I know he plays for his club, that's like his job, you know, but when he plays for his country, I love when he comes out and they're singing the national anthem and all. That's when I get shivers and everything watching that.
So this means the world to me, my family's here. Hi, I'm Troy Parrott and this is Inner Drive.
In 2019, you're getting your opportunities with Tottenham and certainly being involved in the first team. It's also when you get your first senior international cap against New Zealand. Mick McCarthy, early in the week, says that you're starting the game. It's not an hour before kick-off. That must have felt amazing. I'm not sure is it pressure off the shoulders or not, but everybody knows that Troy's making his first senior start.
Yeah, it was great. Look, as I said before, growing up, I loved Ireland. I loved the Ireland team. So then to be Just getting thrown in there at 17 and being able to play in their green jersey in the Aviva was great.
Also with Mick as your manager, it feels like two different time zones have come together.
Yeah, I think that was the only time I was in the camp with Mick. No, it was great.
Is that, fair to say, the first real sort of special moment in your senior career? You're 17 at that point, so of course it has to be. It feels massive, I'd imagine.
Yeah, definitely. Even though it was only a friendly, I think Look, if you play a friendly for your club, there's a big, big difference between if you play it for your country. Every game for Ireland feels like a competitive game, so now it was special.
I remember McCarthy saying that week as well that he was really impressed by just one moment that you had shown in training. He said it was a good touch and a turn and he knew from then that you had something special in you. Do you remember that week in training being different at all?
No, I think I was just in there enjoying it. The level was high in there as well. I was just in there doing my best. There's nothing more.
Around that period then, there's Tottenham Hotspur realising that they need to send you out on loan, you realising that you need to get out and play some first-team football, get minutes into the legs, start scoring some goals in your senior career. Was there ever any reluctance on your part about actually going out in London or was it pretty certain I need to get out there at this stage?
No, I wanted to go. I wanted to go because, as I said, I was gone two or three months without playing a game. So I knew I had to go out and start playing football somewhere.
When you look back on those few years out on loan in the English football pyramid, it's one of the hardest places I'd imagine for any young footballer to ply their trade, given the physicality of the leagues. Everybody is trying to grind out their own living. You could be coming up against a 30-something-year-old man who's going out to injure you in a game. How do you look back on the physicality and the toughness
It's a really difficult league, the Championship. As you said, it's really, really physical and really tough.
What was Troy's experience during his first senior international cap?
I also, when I forced went on loan, struggled with injuries a little bit, which set me back. But now looking back, it was tough.
When the loan didn't work out for him, I moved, he was with, when he went to, the Lawrence didn't walk out from, where was it, it was Ipswich and all that, and then when he went to MK Dance, He was living on his own at the time. He had his own place. He was living in his own apartment in Greenwich and stuff like that. And then we went to MK Don's. I says, I'm going to move over and stay over there for a while with your son. And once I went over and I moved over there for two years and I brought the two younger kids with me and we rented out a house. We lived there. And then he started playing brilliant again. He started MK Dons, he started scoring the goals and we moved the press and he started doing it.
So I don't... I think in a round it was like as if...
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
How did Troy Parrott's journey in football begin?
0:01–3:42
2
What was Troy's experience during his first senior international cap?
3:42–11:54
3
How did loan spells in England shape Troy's career?
11:54–14:05
4
What challenges did Troy face while playing in the English football pyramid?
14:05–36:00
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