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au.sports.yahoo.com | Alex Bysouth
There are portraits that precede greatness, snapshots of youthful genius. The boy with the indie-band bangs celebrating on Ronaldinho's back. The bleach-blonde teen with blaugrana braces leaving a trail of Inter defenders in his wake. Almost exactly 20 years separated Lionel Messi's first goal for Barcelona and Lamine Yamal's sensational Champions League semi-final strike on his 100th appearance for the Catalan giants last month.
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1 month ago |
bbc.com | Alex Bysouth
Image source, ReutersBBC Sport Senior JournalistThere are portraits that precede greatness, snapshots of youthful genius. The boy with the indie-band bangs celebrating on Ronaldinho's back, the bleach-blonde teen with blaugrana braces leaving a trail of Inter defenders in his wake. Almost exactly 20 years separated Lionel Messi's first goal for Barcelona and Lamine Yamal's sensational Champions League semi-final strike on his 100th appearance for the Catalan giants last Wednesday.
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1 month ago |
sports.yahoo.com | Alex Bysouth
For all the goals and individual accolades, Harry Kane has long been hit with criticism - that he had never won a trophy with club or country. "There are many people who, throughout my career, only talk about the fact I haven't won a title yet," the England captain said recently, as Bayern Munich's Bundesliga crown began to look more inevitable.
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1 month ago |
bbc.com | Alex Bysouth
Kane's career has not followed the trajectory one might expect for England's all-time record goalscorer. As an under-14s player at Tottenham, according to former youth coach Alex Inglethorpe, he "wasn't even on the podium" when it came to the age-group's top talents. He was still a youth player the last time Spurs won a trophy, the League Cup in 2008, but earned his breakthrough with the first-team squad and signed his first professional deal in July 2010.
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1 month ago |
bbc.com | Alex Bysouth
"Fans are close to the pitch and really in sync with the players," explains Gaizka Atxa, founder of a supporters' group named after Fred Pentland, a legendary former English coach of the club. "The environment is usually overwhelming for rivals that come to San Mames. It's intimidating, especially in La Liga. In Spain, I don't think there's a similar type of environment."The San Mames experience, though, begins long before kick-off.
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