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词条 Sonny Pike
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  1. Football career

  2. After football

  3. Personal life

  4. References

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}}Luke "Sonny" Pike (born 1983/1984)[1] is an English former footballer who became famous at a young age for his tremendous talent which saw him being compared to other famous stars such as Diego Maradona and George Best.[2]

Football career

Pike's talent was present from an early age and led to his signature for Dutch side Ajax at the age of only seven.[3] Pike was playing for the Leyton Orient youth team at the time.[4] He was described by football magazine WSC as a player who, "had a lot of skill, could pass it and was a nice player, but he lacked pace."[4]

However, the pressure on Pike led to both his personal mental breakdown in 2000 and the collapse of his parents' marriage.[2][3] Pike's collapse has been used as a warning to other young athletes, such as Cherno Samba and Rhain Davis.[5]

After leaving Ajax, Pike returned to England and played non-league football with teams including Stevenage Borough, Barnet, Enfield, Waltham Forest and Dryburgh Saints, all under his birth name of Luke Pike.[4]

After football

Some sources state that after retiring from football, Pike attended the University of Dundee,[3] however Pike himself stated in a 2016 interview that this was not true. At the time of the interview he was working as a taxi driver in London, having previously trained as a carpenter.[6]

Personal life

Pike is related to former Tottenham Hotspur and Queens Park Rangers striker Mark Falco.[3][7] He has two children, Freya and Beau.[6]

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/programmes/f/fi/first_person_plural.html|publisher=radiolistings.co.uk|title=First Person Plural|accessdate=5 February 2009|quote=Twelve year old Sonny Pike is a footballing genius|date=14 January 1996}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/376548.stm|title=Too much too young?|accessdate=11 September 2009|date=23 June 1999|publisher=BBC News}}
3. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2006/feb/15/theknowledge.sport|title=Whatever happened to Sonny Pike?|accessdate=11 September 2009|date=15 February 2006|author=James Dart|publisher=The Guardian}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.wsc.co.uk/content/view/2012/29/|title=Sonny Pike|accessdate=11 September 2009|date=August 2004|publisher=When Saturday Comes}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/skills/6927568.stm|title=Man Utd video star faces tough task|accessdate=11 September 2009|date=2 August 2007|author=Caroline Cheese|publisher=BBC Sport}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/feb/25/sonny-pike-football-prodigy-head-finished|title=Sonny Pike on life as a football prodigy: 'At 17 my head was finished. I was suicidal'|first=Nick|last=Ames|work=The Guardian|date=25 February 2016|accessdate=25 February 2016}}
7. ^https://twitter.com/sfalco1/status/702098309872230405
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14 : 1980s births|Living people|English footballers|Leyton Orient F.C. players|AFC Ajax players|Stevenage F.C. players|Barnet F.C. players|Enfield F.C. players|Waltham Forest F.C. players|English expatriate footballers|Expatriate footballers in the Netherlands|English expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands|Alumni of the University of Dundee|Association footballers not categorized by position

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