Lamar Levi Powell is a professional association footballer, who plays as a forward for Bristol Rovers

Bristol Rovers F.C.

Bristol Rovers Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Bristol, that competes in Football League Two. The team plays its home matches at the Memorial Stadium, in the Horfield area of the city....

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Early life

Powell is from the Stoke Bishop

Stoke Bishop

Stoke Bishop is a very affluent and medium-sized outer city suburb in the north-west of Bristol, located in between Westbury-on-Trym, Sneyd Park, and Sea Mills. Although relatively small, Stoke Bishop's population has increased due to substantial infilling on the Smelting Works sports ground and...

 area of Bristol

Bristol

Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...

, and attended Cotham School

Cotham School

Cotham School is a secondary school with academy status in Cotham, a suburb of Bristol, England.-History:Its predecessor was the Merchant Venturers School.Until the academic year 2000/01, Cotham was a Grammar School...

 in the city. He later went to Filton College

Filton College

Filton College is a further education college in Filton, Bristol, England.The main site lies on the A38 just south of Filton Aerodrome. A second major campus, dedicated to performing arts, fine art and sport, and known as WISE , opened in 2005 adjacent to Filton High School, near Bristol Parkway...

, where he studied towards a BTEC qualification in sport.

Footballing career

Powell started out playing football at under-8s level for Bristol-based youth football team Shire Colts, before joining the Bristol Rovers

Bristol Rovers F.C.

Bristol Rovers Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Bristol, that competes in Football League Two. The team plays its home matches at the Memorial Stadium, in the Horfield area of the city....

 youth system at the age of 11. He was fast-tracked into the club's under-18 side when he was still aged 16 after having scored 52 goals for the under-16s during the 2008–09 season, and was included in a first team matchday squad for the first time on 1 May 2010, when he was an unused substitute in a 3–0 home defeat at the hands of Norwich City

Norwich City F.C.

Norwich City Football Club is an English professional football club based in Norwich, Norfolk. As of the 2011–12 season, Norwich City are again playing in the Premier League after a six-year absence, having finished as runner up in the Championship in 2010–11 and winning automatic promotion.The...

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He signed his first professional contract two months after his seventeenth birthday, when he put his name to a two-year deal on 19 November 2010. He was an unused substitute five times during the 2010–11 season before making his senior debut on 16 April 2011 when he came on as an 86th-minute replacement for player-manager Stuart Campbell

Stuart Campbell (footballer)

Stuart Pearson Campbell is an English-born Scottish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Football League Two side Bristol Rovers. He has previously played for Leicester City, Birmingham City and Grimsby Town. At international level, he won 15 caps for the Scotland under-21...

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External links

• Lamar Powell profile on Bristol Rovers' official website