Premier League: From top scorer to vice: the professional footballer who became an Anglican priest
Alan Comfort He played as a professional soccer player between 1980 and 1989, defending a jersey Queen’s Park RangersAnd CambridgeAnd Leyton Orient (considered the second best player in its history) And Middlesbrough.
And after more than 250 matches, in which he scored 53 goals, in the Football League, he was forced to retire from football at the age of 28 due to injury.
For the first 19 years of my life, almost 20 years of my life, I never went to church. I hadn’t met anyone who was Christian until I met Graham Daniels in Cambridge
Comfort explained: “For the first 19 or nearly 20 years of my life, I never went to church. I hadn’t met anyone who was Christian until I met Graham Daniels at Cambridge. There were very few Christians in football in those years.” . to East Anglian Daily Times.
After retirement and acquaintance with Christianity, I thought I really wanted to put my trust in God and Jesus.Become Alain Comfort Anglican priest in the Church of England (Church of England) was through 21 years as chaplain at Leyton Orientuntil he left this position in 2014.
Tommy Kahn reports that 58-year-old Alan Comfort has taken up a vicarship at St Andrew’s Church in Rushmere, Ipswich.
