A chance encounter prompted Tommy Wheeldon Jr. to leave England in 2002 to play for the Calgary Storm of the now-defunct A-League. Twenty-two years later, Wheeldon is still in Calgary.
A chance encounter prompted Tommy Wheeldon Jr. to leave England in 2002 to play for the Calgary Storm of the now-defunct A-League.
The two chatted and with Tommy Wheeldon Sr. going through a divorce, he was open to a move. Later that year he visited Calgary and got a job as the Storm's technical director. He eventually joined the Calgary Foothills club, then in 2018 he was hired to build Cavalry FC at the ground floor. His father eventually returned to England.
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