Before he became a culinary mastermind, Gordon Ramsay’s first love was soccer, or football, as it’s known in the United Kingdom.Growing up in Stratford-upon-Avon, England (Shakespeare’s hometown), Ramsay, now 59, developed his soccer skills at an early age. He first set his sights on a professional sports career at the age of 12 when he joined Warwickshire’s Under-14 team.The promising soccer player soon joined the Glasgow Rangers, a professional soccer club, when he was 15. “I was a naturally aggressive left-back, a cut-throat tackler,” he recalled to The Guardian in May 2002. “You may have got past once but there was never, ever, ever a second occasion. And I was fast, I was a great 100 meter sprinter.”Ramsay’s time with the team as a youth player and trialist spanned three years until a knee injury prematurely ended his career.…