AN eight-year-old girl’s international friendship with a German boy led to an intercontinental football match – and wonderful memories to last a lifetime. It all began when Poppy Risdale, a player for Hungerford Town Junior Football Club Under 10s Crusaders, befriended Vincent Wind from Hemsbach, Germany, during a family holiday in Rhodes. Each morning Poppy’s father, Crusaders youth coach Christopher Risdale, and his brother arranged football games on the hotel football pitch for their own children, which then attracted children of different nationalities. It was during these football session…
