BENJAMIN LATROBE
Benjamin Latrobe America's First Architect - 2009 TV was released on: USA: 30 June 2009 (DVD premiere)
He turned pro in 2001 and played his first competitive match at 15 yrs 10 months in 2002.
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Gourcuff signed his first professional contract in November 2003 with Stade Rennais. He has since played for Milan, Bordeaux and currently plays for Lyon.
It was his first instrument. His father set him up with a neighbor who played trumpet professionally.
Jim Thorpe (link below) was probably the first American Indian to play pro football. He played professionally with the Pine Village Pros in Indiana in 1913 and later went on to become the first president of the NFL, where he also played for the Oorang Indians (an all-American Indian team) in Ohio.
The first head coach of the Arizona Cardinals professionally was Paddy Driscoll.
This is an impossible question to answer as many Canadian girls have always played hockey since the game was invented. If you mean to play professionally, it was Manon Rheaume, who attended training camp with Tampa Bay and played part of one exhibition game.
Technically Bo Jackson started playing in the MLB first (in 1986), but he didn't play in the NFL until 1991. Deion Sanders, started playing in the MLB in 1989 and in the NFL in 1990. So to answer your question, Deion Sanders played professionally in two sports before Bo Jackson.
Jamie Carragher first started playing professional football in the 1996-1997 year/season. So, knowing this, he has been playing now for 13-14 years professionally.