Usain Bolt on Trial with Aussie A-League’s Central Coast Mariners Football Club

  Bolt has always dreamed of playing professional football and even at age 31, the eighth Olympic champion is not giving up.

The Jamaican great and avid Manchester United fan retired from athletics after August’s World Championships in London, and he trained with Norwegian club Stromsgodset last month and Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund in March.

His project in agreement with the Mariners will see him participate in a six-week trial starting next month at the Gosford club base, about 75km north of Sydney. Soccer agent Tony Rallis, who has been working on the agreement, told Sports Sports at Sky Sports Radio on Tuesday it was agreed "in principle ... subject to a couple of benchmarks."

“Mainly, a trial, and of course marquee funds support from (governing body Football Federation Australia),” he said, adding that the arrangement was not a gimmick.

“Once the FFA comes back and says that they’ll be part of the process, we’re going to the trial… This bloke’s an ambitious athlete. The A-League needed a hero, and we got superman.”

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