Real Madrid Star Jude Bellingham My idols are Lee Bowyer and Zinedine Zidane

Real Madrid star Jude Bellingham has uncovered that his absolute first symbols in the game were Seb Larsson, Craig Gardner and Lee Bowyer, midfielders who were fundamental for Birmingham City’s last significant prize in 2011. Them, and Zinedine Zidane.

Addressing L’Equipe after he got the Kopa Grant for the best youthful player in Europe, Bellingham made sense of his most memorable legends were nearby to him.

“I respected the Birmingham players, the group that won the Association Cup at Wembley (2-1 against Munititions stockpile in 2011). My legends were Seb Larsson, Craig Gardner and Lee Bowyer.”

“As I got more into it, father was the most significant. Afterward, my most memorable models were Wayne Rooney and Steven Gerrard, just on the grounds that they played in Britain. And afterward when you grow up, you begin watching football. My father had a phony Zidane shirt that he had purchased on the ocean front. He took it all over the place, frequently at home. On one occasion I asked him: ‘Coincidentally, who is that person?’ He answered: ‘Go on YouTube and look at him.’ From that point forward, I presumably haven’t halted.”

“Zidane was the player I needed to be. I was sufficiently fortunate to meet him during the Heroes Association last between Genuine Madrid and Liverpool (1-0, in 2022). I resembled a youngster, wide-looked at. It’s so lowering for somebody who has accomplished to such an extent. He radiated an extraordinary presence. Furthermore, as indicated by the folks who played with him here, he was an extraordinary mentor. That is comparably significant.”

Obviously, Bellingham took on Zidane’s old number five shirt at the Santiago Bernabeu mentioning it from Jesus Vallejo, who held the number at that point.

“It’s a sort of recognition, obviously. Yet, simultaneously, I need to follow my own way and it’s practically similar to taking it and molding it my way, making this number what I maintain that it should be: Madrid’s cutting edge number 5.”

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