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After a few days of rumors about One Direction singer Louis Tomlinson purchasing his hometown football club, the Doncaster Rovers, an officially statement from the League One team confirmed the exciting news. Read More »
This week marked the Louis Tomlinson's debut as a reserve player for the Doncaster Rovers and fans flocked to the stadium for record-breaking attendance. But there were four people noticeably absent from Louis big game: his One Direction bandmates Niall Horan, Harry Styles, Liam Payne and Zayn Malik. Why weren't the pop stars out to support their singing partner? Read More »
After months of anticipation, One Direction's Louis Tomlinson finally made his debut as a non-contract reserve player for his hometown football club, the Doncaster Rovers, in a match against Rotherham United. As expected, the stadium was packed with screaming One Direction fans, as well as a handful of season ticket holders that weren't as excited as the young girls. Louis did see some filed time, but the match ended in a draw despite the celebrity presence of the pop singer. Read More »
Can a One Direction Star tackle a soccer career? Read More »
This week marks Louis Tomlinson's debut match as a semi-professional footballer with his hometown professional football club, the Doncaster Rovers. We first heard of this special, charity contract last spring but a busy schedule and even injury pushed Tomlinson's debut. All's well this time around, though, and Louis will suit up as a reserve team player with an expected audience of 4,000 fans watching him. Read More »
The Doncaster Rovers might have won their match against Scunthorpe United yesterday, but they were missing their celebrity player Louis Tomlinson thanks to an injury he suffered earlier this month. Tomlinson sat on the bench and garnered plenty of cheers from his fans. At least he had a good seat for his favorite team, right? Read More »
Louis Tomlinson recently signed a deal with his hometown football club, the Doncaster Rovers, to live out one of his biggest life dreams and play professional soccer. Unfortunately, the One Direction singer was injured earlier this month during a charity match and had to miss his first Rovers appearance this week. Now sources are saying that his One Direction management team is telling Louis to give up on his soccer career due to the possibility of other injuries. Read More »
Last week Louis Tomlinson of One Direction took part in a friendly charity football match that led to him getting tackled and injured by Aston Villa striker Gabriel Agbonlahor. Louis then became sick on the sidelines, throwing up in front of the adoring fans that had come to see him play. Unfortunately, the injury he sustained has caused him to cancel his first appearance with the Doncaster Rovers this week and according to his Twitter account, he is "gutted." Read More »
Louis Tomlinson's professional football career debut with the Doncaster Rovers is set for September 18 and just 24 hours after tickets went on sale over 1,000 have been sold. More than 600 tickets were sold within the first few hours, too. The club signed the One Direction singer in hopes that hoards of young female One Direction fans to pack the Doncaster stadium in hopes to garner more attention for the club and it looks like it's working. Read More »
We all know that Louis Tomlinson has a full-time job as a member of the biggest boy band today, One Direction. That does not mean he does not have time to chase another dream of his: playing for a professional English football (soccer) team! The 21-year-old singer has signed a deal with the Doncaster Rovers as a non-contract, reserve player for the upcoming season. This football team is hoping the singer's fame will attract more people to matches. Read More »