Malik
ST. PRI The Ultimate Football Warrior
M
alik St. Prix has always wanted to play football at the top ranks of the competitive sport. This love and passion for the game has enabled the 25-yearold professional player to gain contracts in regional football leagues and the European Football League competition. Malik readily admits that a sort of football frenzy runs through his veins—and his ultimate aim is to ply his skills across the globe. He is a product of the La Clery community. The suburban locality on the outskirts of Castries has been an avid football community and has produced some of the island’s best footballers over the past decades. Malik is a graduate of the former Gros Islet Secondary School (GISS), now the island’s first-ever sports academy.
However, the transition into a professional player was no easy task and he had to work hard to earn his stripes. According to Malik, he was sort of a “show off” on the field of play during his early elementary school years, thus earning him the nickname ‘Showtyme’. But that did not go down too well with the team coach and so the teenage prodigy had to sit out matches on the bench. Despite that initial setback, he did not let up and continued to pursue his goal of becoming a top footballer even more fervently. Recalling that experience, Malik laments that he was upset with the coach not allowing him to play, because “football is for everyone, right, even females …and I was doing my school work now and then, but I wanted to just play football. I got the name ‘Showtyme’ from coach Ras Isley, in La Clery. He saw me as his marksman …whenever I’m on the ball, I try to do something ‘out of this world’. Just try something and sometimes it works. ” 10 DAZZLE
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From as young as eight, the young Malik was attracted to the sport and became more keenly interested while
