The 36-year-old actor, whose father and uncle were professional players for Shamrock Rovers in his native Ireland, had to give it up as he wasn&#39;t good enough, reported Showbizspy. <img alt="Colin Farrell" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2012/dec/colin_1.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 395px;" /> Colin Farrell &quot;I wanted to be a footballer, but I wasn&#39;t good enough. Certainly, when I was 13 or 14, I knew for sure that I&#39;d dropped the ball, so to speak. I mean, my dad was kicking a punctured tennis ball up against the wall in his back garden from the time he was four, on his own, six hours a day,&quot; Farrell said. &quot;So by the time he was nine, he was like that black-and-white footage of Maradona - he could make that ball speak. The knowledge of the game, it was so deep in the marrow of who he was. I just... didn&#39;t want it enough. &quot;He always used to say that to me, &#39;You&#39;re not hungry enough,&#39; and he was right. But I was obviously hungry enough to get on a plane to LA,&quot; he added.u00a0

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