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David Rocastle, a gifted Arsenal midfielder, faced hundreds of battles with his defenders on the field and won most of them. But his biggest battle was fought off the field with a deadly disease that took away one of the greatest midfielders in football history.

Born on the 2nd of May, 1967 in Lewisham, Rocastle wasn’t born in the noblest family of all. His parents were Caribbean immigrants who moved to London during the 1950s. And when things couldn’t get any sadder, David lost his father from pneumonia at just the age of 29, when he himself was merely 5 years old. Amidst this tragedy, soccer came to him as a way of joy. Something that made him happy, that gave him content. Whenever he felt down or was alone with no one to share his feelings with, he would grab a football and start practicing. And from the streets of his hometown, soccer became the dream of David Rocastle.