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Footballers turn artists

Updated on: 10 April,2010 07:04 AM IST |
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Self-portraits to be auctioned off for charity

Self-portraits to be auctioned off for charity

The images have been collected in a book to be auctioned for music charity Nordoff-Robins.

Rooney was one of the few footballers to add colour to his work. Professional graphologist Emma Bache said, "Rooney's art might not be something he's well known for but the way he's done his face is Picasso-esque.

Wayne Rooney was one of the few to add colour to his work

Arsenal's Theo Walcott opted for a simple stick-man approach, while Liverpool's Gerrard's drawing was notable for its "disproportionately" long neck.

Fabregas, the Arsenal midfielder, produced a spiky-haired character and Portsmouth's David James one of the few footballers known for his drawing skills intriguingly added a question mark above his scrawled self-portrait.

Other football personalities featured include Rio Ferdinand, Michael Owen, Carlo Ancelotti, Robin van Persie, Carlos Tevez and Harry Redknapp.

Bache said of Gerrard's piece, "This is quite a big figure with a disproportionately long neck, it's almost as if he wants to peer over a wall, he wants to see what's going on all the time and he's very much an observer and a larger-than-life character."

Giggs is "someone who wants to get on with things and is not interested in the past", Walcott "knows where he is going and is determined to get to the top" and Drogba is "honest, open and smiling" with "nothing to hide".

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Average number of kilometres Wayne Rooney runs per match walks for 4 km, jogs for 4.8 km, runs for 1.5 km, light sprinting for 1 km and 500m sprinting

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