Real Madrid superstar Jude Bellingham has raised eyebrows with his surprising list of football idols after naming three Birmingham stars on his list.
, handed out to the world's best young player. When the 20-year-old took home the coveted award, he was asked to list the football players who inspired him as a child and. The England international went on to name former Birmingham City players Seb Larsson, Craig Gardner, and Lee Bowyer along with superstar Zinedine Zidane."I admired the Birmingham players, the team that won the League Cup at Wembley .
“As I got more into it, dad was the most important. Later, my first models were Wayne Rooney and Steven Gerrard, simply because they played in England. And then when you grow up, you start watching football. My dad had a fake Zidane shirt that he had bought on the beach. He took it everywhere, often at home. One day I asked him: ‘By the way, who is that guy?’ He replied: ‘Go on YouTube and check him out.’ Since then, I probably haven’t stopped.”“Zidane was the player I wanted to be.
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