A soccer fanatic who used compensation cash from a tragic accident to purchase his native soccer membership is about to hit the limelight.
‘The Home That George Constructed’ will premier on channel TNT Sports and can function the story of how Dowell took over in addition to documenting his life on the Vanarama Nationwide League south membership.
George Dowell was an extraordinary teen whose life modified without end when a horrible automotive accident left him paralysed from the chest down on the age of simply 17.
Simply earlier than his accident, Dowell, who performed right-back, was on the point of breaking into the Worthing FC first staff on the age of 17.
However in April 2010, he was concerned in a horrible crash on his method from coaching to McDonald’s that noticed his pal’s automotive flip off the highway and right into a subject.
He suffered a spinal twine damage that left him paralysed from the chest down with restricted use of his arms.
He has since taken over as Worthing Soccer Membership proprietor and has even been given an MBE for his companies to soccer and incapacity consciousness.
He bought compensation from the accident, and on the age of twenty-two determined to make use of a few of his insurance coverage payout to buy the membership in 2015, wipe their mounting debt and save them from doubtlessly folding – one thing which he says gave him a “objective in life” once more.
On the age of twenty-two, he grew to become the proprietor of Worthing Soccer Membership and used the cash to spend money on the membership – funding a brand new 3G pitch and renovating the bottom at Woodside Street stadium.
What’s the documentary about?
The West Sussex staff now play their soccer within the Nationwide League South, with ambitions within the quick time period to get into the Nationwide League.
Speaking to The Sun, Dowell said: “After we got here in, we set a really formidable plan of attempting to get two promotions in 5 years, which is a loopy factor to do once you’re 22 with no expertise.”
The documentary will present the ups and downs of proudly owning a soccer membership, and comply with the staff of their pursuit for glory.
Dowell added: “Now we’re within the Nationwide League South, the very best the membership’s ever been. It took seven years however solely 5 full seasons so I will take that as a win. We positively need to get to the Nationwide League as quickly as we will. We had been very, very shut final yr.
“Within the long-term, we do not see a ceiling. We do not see why a city as huge as Worthing cannot maintain a membership within the Soccer League. I do not see why it may possibly’t try this. We will attempt to make that occur sooner or later.”
The documentary additionally tells the story of how Dowell labored his method by way of life along with his incapacity and candidly element his relationship along with his girlfriend Jessikah – together with the assorted challenges of being an inter-able couple, from the day by day practicalities to the affect on intercourse and conceiving.
Due to IVF, Dowell and Jessikah welcomed their child daughter Bonnie into the world final November – and the brand new mother and father gave an perception into parenthood on their YouTube channel, The Wheel Life.
The Membership That George Constructed will premiere on TNT Sports activities 1 at 10.30pm on Tuesday, October 1 and shall be out there to look at on-demand by way of Discovery+
