Lucas-Jordan Jeremiah "LJ" Akins (born 25 February 1989 in Huddersfield) is a professional footballer currently playing for Scottish Premier League side Hamilton Academical. He attended St. Patricks Junior and Infants School where he was very talented in many sports which, included athletics, rugby and basketball but was a prolific striker scoring many goals for the school. He also attended Newsome High School and Sports College where he also exc...
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Lucas-Jordan Jeremiah "LJ" Akins (born 25 February 1989 in Huddersfield) is a professional footballer currently playing for Scottish Premier League side Hamilton Academical. He attended St. Patricks Junior and Infants School where he was very talented in many sports which, included athletics, rugby and basketball but was a prolific striker scoring many goals for the school. He also attended Newsome High School and Sports College where he also excelled in many sports.
Akins is quite a versatile character. He also was a talented dancer, and won many awards in Ballet, Tap, Modern and Jazz dancing. His 12 year dancing career came to an end when he had the difficult decision to make between football and dancing, he chose football.
Akins started his career with Huddersfield Town, and on 20 April 2007, then manager Andy Ritchie promoted him and 3 other members of Huddersfield's academy to the first team squad, following excellent performances for the academy and reserve teams.
Akins made his...
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