world cup futures

The background: Spartacus is really good* at playing with and especially kicking around a ball (any ball -- tennis ball, football, really anything that will roll). His footballing skills are something of a family joke, actually, and so, perhaps inevitably after the way England v Algeria went last night and Spartacus' who-cares-about-the-puppy-where's-my-ball act this morning, we have the following:

BH: Are you going to be England's great hope? Are you going to save the England team from humiliation someday?
me: Will you be a striker...
BH: or a midfielder?
me: Or will you play defense and headbutt people?
Spartacus, cheerfully: Headbutt people!

*Good for a 21-month-old, anyway. So, you know, perfectly plausible for England these days.