Poland called up for Matty Cash
Poland called up for Matty Cash
Matty Cash is on the brink of playing right-back for Poland – a country where he wasn’t born
and a position he once didn’t want to play.
But unexpected turns are a common theme for a player who went from selling toys in Windsor to rising from
League Two to the Premier League.
Yet at 16, he was without a club after being released by Wycombe.
“He was lost,” his dad Stuart Cash told Sport new reporter.
“My wife and I sent him to work at Daniel Department Store, we wanted him to experience that real working life
and it was fantastic for him.
It gave him a sense of life without football, having come so close.
“I remember sitting down with him and saying ‘look, if you want to go and work in Daniel’s or get a job elsewhere,
me and your mum will support you, but you’ve got too much talent on a football pitch to do that’.
“From there he knew what he had to do. That job gave him the motivation to say ‘I don’t want to do this,
I want to become a footballer’.”
for the first time after switching allegiances.
of the game.
Matty Cash is fully deserves to be called up by Poland.
