From Andre Agassi’s terrifying father to the dad who inspired a novel,half a dozen parents who just couldn’t let proceed There are many stories of pushy, obsessive, or overbearing sports parents who manipulate their child’s athletic lives and then there is Marv Marinovich. At a time when sports training camps,travel teams and nutritionists weren’t almost mandatory for blooming young sports stars he was all of these things for his son Todd. Perhaps unfairly, he has become the template for the contemporary, or overzealous athlete father.
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Source: theguardian.com