Premiership footballer Bobby Convey talks to Action for Blind People
Professional footballer Bobby Convey talks to us about his visual impairment, his footballing success and offers advice to budding young visually impaired footballers.
Premiership footballer Bobby Convey is partially blind in his left eye due to optic nerve damage. However, this didn’t stop him from playing in the USA’s national football team before coming to Britain to play for Reading Football Club. We met him recently and asked him not only about his footballing success, but about what advice he’d give to budding young visually impaired players.
Convey received his first cap for the senior United States team in October 2000 against Mexico, becoming the third youngest player in US history to do so. He captained the Under-20 team at the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship in the United Arab Emirates. He was named to the 23-man squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, wearing number 15. He played in all three games as the United States exited in the first round.
In 2004, after five seasons with D.C. United, Convey signed for Reading, who were then playing in the English Football League Championship, on the highest transfer fee paid by Reading up to that date.
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