Alex Brooker

2022 - 6 - 12

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Image courtesy of "Manchester Evening News"

Who is Alex Brooker in Soccer Aid 2022? (Manchester Evening News)

Alex Brooker will be playing for England against the World XI at this year's charity football match.

Kick off is 7:30pm though the show starts a little earlier with plenty of build-up to the big match. And it was one of those things where, when I got to about 19, I realised that actually I’m just not going to be able to do it every week anymore. He is also the official ambassador for the Legs4Africa charity.

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Soccer Aid 2022 star Alex Brooker's wife, 'fight to save marriage' and ... (Yorkshire Live)

Alex Booker will now make his Soccer Aid debut as the first disabled player to ever take to the pitch.

Alex Brooker was born with hand and arm deformities. In the video, she told the boys she will get a round of drinks for them if they’re able to beat her. It was reported Alex told Lynsey about the affair and they’re working on their marriage. The comedian was born with hand and arm deformities and had his right leg amputated when he was a baby. It was a real strain on the marriage. In August 2021, he starred in a BBC Two documentary that examined his disability.

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Soccer Aid's Alex Brooker had leg amputated as baby and made ... (Mirror.co.uk)

The Last Leg's Alex Brooker, who will showcase his sporting skills as Soccer aid's first ever disabled player on Sunday, was born with hand and arm ...

I kicked a ball long after I’d lost my foot and somehow, naturally for me, it’s with the side that’s missing. I turned to Lynsey and said, 'Tell them you’re my carer and you’ll get in free.' She said 'what?' and I just said 'nothing'." Then the first time I did she didn’t say anything and we never talked about it. "I told her one day out of the blue when we were visiting a safari park. "And it's one of those things that I slightly have made bigger in my mind over time. "So that kind of self-consciousness came very early on, and it's always been there, and then all of a sudden my oldest was three and literally a couple of weeks ago she said something about my hand for the first time."

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Why Soccer Aid's Alex Brooker had his leg amputated and his fears ... (Liverpool Echo)

Alex was born with hand and arm deformities as well as a twisted right leg.

So I've actually realised that, over time, I make a bigger thing of the disability angle in my head than maybe I should." "And it's one of those things that I slightly have made bigger in my mind over time. Alex wears a prosthetic leg and always appears to be in high spirits - revealing in an interview that some days he doesn't "think about [his] disability at all".

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