Jamal Musiala's exceptional performances for Germany have lit up Euro 2024, but it is bittersweet for England.
Yet, this joint piece of English and German engineering was once unknown to the German Football Association. "I realised I saw something special when driving home. We weren't selecting any underage players for England's first Under-15s age group, but with him and Jude, we put forward our case to make an exception.
Shortly after he arrived he joined City Central FC in Southampton. His first coach, Rosh Bhatti, posted on Facebook in January 2011 that “Saints may be signing a player who is so talented that I am confident enough to say he will become a professional footballer one day despite being just seven years old".
"I still tell the kids today about Jamal’s story; he put 110% into everything, I get goosebumps seeing where he is now.” "We then had a tour of Wembley - Geoff Hurst’s hat-trick was being explained to the kids - and Jamal said he wanted to replicate it - he went on to score four and we won the final.”
“But there was a game that stuck out to me, where he was getting kicked by a much bigger team in Peterborough - he came to me at half-time upset, and I said ‘just stick at it and the chances will come'. The second half came, and he scored two goals.”Multiple factors then began driving Musiala away from Chelsea and eventually England.
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