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Sports in Everyday Life

By Staff Writer eventually led to another, and the
couple got married in 1962. They’ve
ll you need is love. And
Asometimes, a little fate and a lived interesting lives since. They
lived in Nairobi, Kenya, for six and a
little soccer. At least, that’s the case half years when Les took a job as the
for Les and Margaret Mortimer. The
Senior Operations Planning Officer
couple first met in Bristol, England, with East African Airways. Les
in 1959, some sixty years ago. While continued to work and to play soccer
playing soccer for Mells and Vobster
and cricket, while Margaret was kept
United, a local club, Les took a soccer busy with their three children, Karen,
ball to the face.
Lisa, and Nick, all of whom were
This required a two-week stay in born in Kenya.
the eye hospital in Bristol. That’s
After a brief return to the UK, the
when he was put under the care of a Mortimer family made the move
young nurse named Margaret Phillips. to Montreal, where Les worked Photo Submitted
“There were such things as eye
for the International Civil Aviation Soccer has remained a big part of of players that gets together at the
hospitals back then,” says Margaret.
Organization, an independent Les’s life. At 86 years young, he still Benson Centre most Friday nights.
“She took advantage of me because member of the United Nations family. laces up his soccer boots on a regular “One of my life’s greatest pleasures,”

I had my eyes shut,” Les jokes. “We were only supposed to be here basis as a member of the Friday says Les “is being able to play soccer
“And the rest is history.” One thing for two years,” says Les. Night Fumblers, an eclectic group with my granddaughter.”

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