Can any professional footballers drive a heavy goods vehicle? | The Knowledge

Can any professional footballers drive a heavy goods vehicle? | The Knowledge:

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“Can any professional footballers drive a lorry?” tweets @TheTinBoonie.

We’re assuming you mean former professionals, too, in which case the answer is yes, there are more than a few. We’re only including any vehicle over 3.5 tonnes, as that is the weight (in Britain, at least) that trucks are considered heavy goods vehicles. Thanks then to @ScandinoirIR for pointing us in the direction of the larger-than-life former Uruguay striker Walter Pandiani who, sometime in the early-2000s, bought a big red truck and even used it to drive to Deportivo’s training ground.

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