Revealed : Chelsea star midfielder who Ten hag really wants ,Set to join Manchester United so as to play with idol Ronaldo ,Tuchel worried about losing him .
Chelsea midfielder Mason Mount
has revealed he grew up idolizing Manchester
United star Cristiano Ronaldo.
A video of Mount successfully implementing
the Portuguese's freekick technique of hitting
the valve on the ball went viral on social media.
The Chelsea midfielder explained that
he watched one of Ronaldo’s most popular
freekicks against Portsmouth live in 2008
. He then tried to implement it on the training
ground.
Mount told Amazon Prime in an interview
(via Football London):
"I think everyone has seen the
video of when I was younger basing
my free kick off him [Cristiano
Ronaldo]. I always watched him
very closely when he was at United
as a young kid. I loved the way
he played, his free kicks."
He added:
"I'm a massive Pompey fan, so
I went to the game when they
played at Old Trafford and
he scored that free-kick against
David James. I was actually at the
game, in the corner so I saw it
first hand and I think after that
I kind of fell in love with the technique
and what he'd done and him
as a player."
The England international also talked
about the experience of watching the
Portuguese striker live to now play
against him. He said:
“So I always try to look at and
work out, what can I do, to put
it into my game? But now to
play against him and be up against
him is the journey that you
go on from watching someone
in the stands as a fan and then
to being on the same pitch and
playing against them. It's a crazy
journey and yeah, that's why
I love football so much."
Manchester United star Cristiano
Ronaldo's free-kicks have inspired
a generation of footballers including
Chelsea’s Mason Mount
It’s certainly not a surprise that several
players, both young and old, tried to implement
Ronaldo’s freekick technique with a varied
degree of success.
The swerve it generated was hard to
read for the goalkeepers. It wasn’t always
simple hitting through the ball and hoping
it would come down in time to hit the
target. The skill required to pull it off
was incredible.
While the technique might not be as
popular in today’s generation, players still
look up to the Manchester United star for
the standards he sets for himself.
The longevity and performance levels
the Manchester United forward has
achieved is staggering. The 37-year-
old forward has already inspired a
generation of footballers.
Mount’s progress has been pretty incredible
as well. He broke into the first team in
2019 and has kept his place even though
Chelsea have spent a lot of money to
strengthen the squad.
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