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Celtic star shares adorable throwback pic of him in his first Hoops kit that ‘he wanted to wear all the time'
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IT'S every kid's dream to one day play for the team you support as a youngster.
It's a dream that's become a reality for one current Celtic star.
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The Celtic star shared the throwback pic
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Luke McCowan took part in a fans' Q&A
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McCowan is now living the dream at Parkhead
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Luke McCowan grew up a huge Hoops fan and just a few years ago, pulling on the green and white hoops for real would've still seemed a rather unlikely ambition.
The midfield ace was plucked from local football by Ayr United as a 19-year old in 2017.
He was famously still working as a lifeguard at a local leisure centre in Greenock before landing his professional contract.
McCowan enjoyed a breakout year at Somerset Park in the 2019/20 season and landed a big move to the Scottish Premiership with Dundee in 2021.
A stellar campaign in the 2023/24 season saw him strike 10 goals from midfield and he landed his dream move to Parkhead the following year.
McCowan went on to score seven goals in 41 games across all competitions as Celtic won a league and cup double.
He also struck a dramatic late winner on the opening day of this season as the champions beat St Mirren 1-0.
Having grown up a Hoops fan, he's very much now living his boyhood dream.
And while he now pulls on the Celts kit for real every week, he's shared a throwback pic from more than TWENTY years ago when those ambitions very much were a distant dream.
McCowan took part in a Q&A on Celtic's social media channels and one fan asked him what the first Hoops kit he owned was.
That saw him cast his mind back all the way to 2003.
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McCowan joked: "No doubt probably the day I left the hospital my mum and dad had us in Celtic kit!"
He then explained: "But the one I can remember is the 2003/04 Carling.
"I put a picture up of me standing like that (arms outstretched) and I've got the Celtic Carling 2003 top on and I've got the bandanna on my head.
"That's the first one I can remember wanting to wear all the time and wanting to put on.
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"That's probably somewhere as well in my mum and dad's loft stinking!"
Celtic then shared the very same picture on their Instagram stories, exactly as McCowan remembered it!
The 2003/04 campaign was a memorable one for the Hoops who romped to the SPL title.
Losing just two games all league season, Martin O'Neill's men reached 98 points and finished 17 points ahead of Rangers.
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